Grown-Up Girlfriends: Finding and Keeping Real Friends in the Real World (Focus on the Family)
Average Rating: out of 7 Reviews
Price: $13.99
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Manufacturer: Tyndale House Publishers
EAN (European Article Number): 9781414308098
Number of Items: 1
Binding: Paperback
Author: Erin Smalley::Carrie Oliver
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Dewey Decimal Number: 241.6762082
Publication Date: 2007-03-06
Reading Level: 240
Description: Even when life is hectic and harried, every woman has a God-given longing for relationship, and her female friends play an important role in filling that. Oliver and Smalley help women distinguish between self-centered, insecure, childish relationships and other-centered, healthy, "grown-up" relationships. Using personal anecdotes and scriptural principles, they explain ten characteristics of a grown-up friend and offer ideas on how readers can develop these attributes in themselves. Finally, they tackle the tough issues of friendships, such as how to support a friend in crisis, how to work toward forgiveness when a friend has injured you, and how to determine when it is best to let a friendship go.
Review Summary: Deep Insights--anything but basic!
Date: 2008-10-20
Details: This was an excellent book with great insight into the many facets of female relationships. I finished the book in three days and refer to it often in dealing with my own "grown-up girlfriends." I appreciated Smalley's and Oliver's research of the material as well as their own personal stories sprinkled throughout the book. Their honesty and transparency allowed for great examples of the points made throughout the book. Their professional expertise blended with their own girlfriend experiences come together for a wonderful handbook to be used and reused!
Review Summary: Very basic concepts
Date: 2008-09-15
Details: I did not enjoy this book. The concepts are so basic that I struggled to finish it. It doesn't provide very deep insight.
Review Summary: Chocked full of wonderful insites!
Date: 2008-01-11
Details: As the authors wrote candidly from their own experiences, sharing insights many would not dare touch upon, I felt a connection from the get-go. It is an easy read, like sitting down and having coffee with a good friend who is chocked full of truth and reality about the rich and challenging aspects of the deepest of friendships. Half way through, I bought a copy for my daughter, and she felt the same!
Review Summary: Great book for sisters, friends, and moms
Date: 2007-07-01
Details: I found this book extrememly helpful as I walk through my "grown up" friendships. This book offers not only concrete ways of being a better friend, but also how to move on from those friendships that are damaging. I appreciated the real stories from both women on their journeys through healthy and unhealthy friendships. I felt like they really said what we as Christian women think, but don't always have the guts to say or do. It really challenged me to look at friendship in a more mature manner. This book would make a great gift for those women close to to you.
Review Summary: Great book for your girlfriends
Date: 2007-05-07
Details: Fabulous, informative, and a great book to enrich your friendships.
Caught my attention immediately - Erin and Carrie have great insights in this book on how to grow up you friendships with your girl friends.
Loved it - take it on vacation this summer and share it with your friends for Mother's day!
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