How To Avoid Falling In Love With A Jerk

AVOID THE JERKS AND FIND ?THE ONE? WHO'S RIGHT FOR YOU

"Eye-opening and practical, How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk is for anyone who's tired of dating and wants to finally find 'the one.'"
--John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

"An insightful and creative contribution to managing the complexity of choosing a life partner. I heartily recommend it."
--Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., author of Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find

"Don't be part of the 'where-was-this-book-when-I-needed-it?' crowd. It's not too late--read it now!"
--Pat Love, Ed.D., author of The Truth About Love and Hot Monogamy

Based on years of research on marital and premarital happiness, How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk (previously published in hardcover as How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk) will help you break destructive dating patterns that have kept you from finding the love you deserve:

• Ask the right questions to inspire meaningful, revealing conversations with your partner
• Judge character based on compatibility, relationships skills, friends, and patterns from family and previous relationships
• Resolve your own emotional baggage so you're ready for a healthy relationship

Table of contents

Introduction: HEART MATTERS- BUT SO DOES THE HEAD

1. Follow Your Heart Without Losing Your Mind

2. The RAM Plan

3. Don?t Be the Jerk(ette)

4. RAM Dynamic #1: Do I Really Know You?

5. What Do We Have in Common, Really?

6. Can We Just Talk It Out? Skills for Building &

7. And My Third Wife Was a ?? Patterns from Other Relationships

8. You Can?t Marry Jethro Without Gettin? the Clampetts Patterns from Family Background

9. Try To See It My Way Mature Character & Conscience

10.RAM Dynamic #2: Should I Trust You?

11. RAM Dynamic #3: Will You Meets My Needs?

12. RAM Dynamic #4: Can You Keep A Commitment?

13. RAM Dynamic #5: Should We Have Sex?

14. What the World Needs Now Is?Partner-Selection Education