How to Get a Date Worth Keeping: Be Dating in Six Months or Your Money Back
Digital
Overview
De-mystify dating once and for all! Dr. Henry Cloud addresses common dating issues and presents a "how to" guide for getting to know yourself and your date, so you can find (and keep) the love of your life.
Let's face it--dating isn't always fun. But starting today, you can begin a journey that will bring fun and interesting people into your life, broaden your experience of others and yourself, and lead you toward that date of all dates--a date worth keeping.
This book is for YOU if . . .
- You want to get more dates or better dates.
- You wonder where "the good ones" are.
- You keep repeating the same old cycle in your dating life and want to change it.
- You wonder why people who aren't as nice as you get all the dates.
- You're attracted to the wrong kind, while the right kind lack the "chemistry."
- You're waiting for God to bring you the right person--and you've been waiting an awfully long time.
- You wonder what it is about you that fails to attract dates.
With over ten years of experience personally coaching singles on dating, Dr. Henry Cloud shares his proven, very doable, step-by-step approach to overcoming your sticking points and getting all the dates you could want.
The results speak for themselves. Filled with true-life examples you'll identify with instantly, How to Get a Date Worth Keeping will prove its worth to you many times over in the exciting months ahead.
Contents
Acknowledgments 9
A Heart to Heart from Your Coach 10
Part 1---What’s the Problem?
1. Why Hasn’t God Brought Me
the Love of My Life? 15
2. Gut Check 20
3. Where I Am Coming From 23
4. Dating Is Not about Marriage 31
Part 2---The Program
5. Keep a Log 41
6. If You Say, “There Are No Good Prospects,” 47
You Don’t Get It
7. Meet Five a Week 54
8. Change Your Traffic Pattern 61
9. Get Over the Stigma: Join a Service 69
10. Stick With It, and Get Your Numbers Up 76
11. Get Your Team Together 82
12. Tie Me to a Tree 88
13. Don’t Limit Yourself to a Type 91
14. Check Your Expectations at the Door 98
15. Forget Love at First Sight 102
16. Go Out with Almost Anyone Once,
and Maybe Again 106
17. Date a Non-Christian? 109
18. Drop Your Hankie (or Palm Pilot) 118
19. Follow a Strategy from 122
Beginning to Middle to End
20. Be Yourself from the Beginning 131
21. Don’t Play Games 137
22. Where Is the Testosterone? 145
23. Keep Your Boundaries and Don’t Settle 153
Part 3---Get Your Dating Self in Shape
24. Monitor Your Internal World 161
and Face Your Issues
25. Get Healthy 169
26. Don’t Be Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 179
27. Look in the Mirror 187
28. Unleash Your Libido or Reel It In 194
29. Do You Have to Get Married? 204
---Dating Is Not for the Lonely
30. Turn Off the Autopilot and Drive 209
Part 4---Stay Focused on What’s Important
31. Will This Friendship Ever Heat Up? 217
32. Beauty Is Only Skin Deep, but Character 221
Goes All the Way to the Bone
33. Seven Extra Hints 227
A Final Heart to Heart from Your Coach 233