Love Busters: Protecting Your Marriage from Habits That Destroy Romantic Love

by Willard F. Harley Jr.

Book Overview

How spouses treat each other has a tremendous bearing on the success and failure of marriage. In this completely updated and revised edition of "Love Busters," Willard F. Harley, Jr., helps couples... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800718941
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Revell
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Best book on fixing relationships I’ve ever read

This book helped me see my part in the damaged and failing relationship I was a part of. Once I stopped the love busters that I was doing, the relationship changed for the better. He stopped his love busters too. And we lived happily ever after. Really. Do yourself a favor and read it - but also take a hard look at yourself and take responsibility for your part. THATS what really helped me most of all. This book made me see I was a part of the problem rather than a helpless victim . 5 stars.

"Love Busters: Overcoming Habits That Destroy Romantic Love"

Wow! Cut to the chase - no messing around! Heartfelt topics that deal with REAL problems in marriage. AND Hope for the future! Wish I had read this years ago. Thank you Dr. Harley. I have also read "His Needs, Her Needs". I have given two copies of "His Needs, Her Needs" to friends of mine and have recommended it to numerous friends that are experiencing trials in their marriage. "Love Busters" is on my recommendation top list as well. Every couple regardless of troubles or not should read these two books. They truly can help not only save marriages but enhance those that are "just getting along". Your insight is invaluable to Christians and non-Christians alike.

Take A look Inside Yourself

Every chapter in this book related to me as a person. The things that I was doing unconciously that was destroying my marriage. If you want to save your marriage or ensure a prosperous future with another person this book is a must read. I only wish I have found this book and Willard Harley's other book "His Needs, Her Needs" 8 years ago when I first got married. Now my marriage is in a downward spiral and all looks hopeless. I have two young children and I love my wife dearly. She refuses to read these two books and I can't force her too. To anyone facing the crisis of losing a spouse, PLEASE read Love Busters. Make yourself a better person. It might be too late for me in my present relationship, but there is no doubt of the benefits this book affords any future relationship I might enter into in the future. I'm just sorry I didn't know about this book sooner. Good Luck.

Relevant - even if you've been married awhile!!

I purchased this book without knowing anything about Mr. Harley's other successful book and was extremely pleased. I have been married for 12 years and have a good marriage but have often wondered if other married couples have some of the same trials we do. This book confirmed it and brought out some great aspects of marriage that really do "bust" the love sometimes. Mr. Harley has step-by-step directions for dealing with those habits that we all have, the times we let our temper get the best of us and many other lovebusters that drain our love tanks. The book is easy reading and honest. Not preachy or too psychological. I'm now getting "His Needs, Her Needs" to see what I can learn from it. I would definitely recommend this book for newlyweds as well as wedded-awhiles.

Want to have the Happiest Marriage? Read this book!

I cannot say enough about this book, for years I have listened to people talk about how to have a happy marriage. But Mr. Harley is the only one who has been able to make practical honest sense out of the whole deal. Never have I ever heard anybody been able to explain things as Mr Harley has. IF you want to improve your marriage or at least make sense of what is going on. Or at least be able to explain how it is you have such a great marriage. You have to read this book and the rest of Mr. Harleys books. No preacher, no Sunday school teacher, no counselor has ever made it so plain. If you decide to use the information & principles Mr Harley shares with you in your marriage, I guareenty you will not be sorry!

Right on target -- something for all of us

This book, like Harley's "His Need, Her Needs" is a very practical and easy-to-read "how to" guide to improving your marriage. While HNHN focused on the positive, i.e., meeting each other's needs, Love Busters focuses on avoiding the negative traits that can destroy the feeling of love. My wife and I found plenty of things that we do, or don't do, without even realizing it, that were hurting our relationship. Being honest and facing up to these things, as the book leads us to do, was tough at first, but well worth it. We would never go back to how we were before! One thing, though, I think that this book is best read AFTER HNHN.