{"product_id":"marry-a-friend-m-blaine-smith-9780984032204","title":"Marry a Friend: Finding Someone to Marry Who Is Truly Right for You","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe hope of finding someone wonderful to marry is the most intense dream most of us ever experience. Yet the challenge seems impossibly great for so many of us. In this compassionate and deeply practical book, Blaine Smith offers a mountain of advice and encouragement to those at their wits end searching for a spouse. Drawing on decades of experience teaching and counseling singles, he provides multiple strategies for finding a marriage partner, including many you haven't likely thought of before. Smith writes with a heart for the special issues Christians face in looking for marriage. Yet anyone will find benefit in his insights and practical advice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSmith also looks closely at expectations, and how they can help or quickly defeat us in our search for a mate. Friendship, he stresses, much more than romance, is at the heart of a blissful, healthy, enduring marriage. Grasping this time-honored principle can simplify our marriage quest, sometimes greatly, for we recognize possibilities we haven't considered. Smith looks carefully at what sort of friendship works best for marriage, and at what role romance and sexual attraction should, in fact, play.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOther topics include -\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eEmbracing the desire for marriage \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy your prospects of finding someone are good - regardless of age \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRebounding from rejection \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy you probably don't have \"the gift of singleness\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGod's guidance in your marriage quest \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecognizing opportunities you already have \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGetting others' help in finding someone to marry \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChanges - major and minor - that can help you \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe best places for meeting someone \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDating and launching a serious relationship \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUsing Internet matching services effectively \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTaking initiative effectively as woman \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaking every day count \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eM. Blaine Smith, a Presbyterian pastor, is author of nine books, including \u003cb\u003eThe Yes Anxiety\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eOvercoming Shyness\u003c\/b\u003e, and the best-selling \u003cb\u003eShould I Get Married?\u003c\/b\u003e. He is director of Nehemiah Ministries in Washington, D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e M. Blaine Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0984032207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780984032204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Silvercrest Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/04\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.54d","brand":"M. Blaine Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48587669635327,"sku":"9780984032204","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/marry-a-friend-m-blaine-smith-9780984032204","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}