Five Ways Men Want Women to Bloom

By Loretta Morman

Nothing feels better than a great marriage. Nothing hurts worse than an unhappy one. A successful marriage doesn’t come easily. In Five Ways Men Want Women to Bloom, author Loretta Morman provides a Christian-based guide to making marriage work.

Gleaned from interviews from men and from her personal experiences of thirty years of marriage, Five Ways Men Want Women to Bloom helps wives adjust their desires, set their values, and free them to pursue the loving relationship they want. Morman provides firsthand evidence of how changes in a wife’s attitude and way of thinking can alter her husband’s behavior, facilitate healthy and fruitful relationships, and improve the marriage.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Jan 9, 2018
• ISBN: 9781480855281

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Five Ways Men

Want Women to

Bloom

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Copyright © 2018 Loretta Morman.

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ISBN: 978-1-4808-5527-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4808-5528-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017918503

Archway Publishing rev. date: 1/4/2018

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Bloom 1 Respect and Love

Bloom 1 Respect and Love

Bloom 2 Develop a Different Style of Communication

Bloom 2 Develop a Different Style of Communication

Bloom 3 Romantic Skills

Bloom 3 Romantic Skills

Bloom 4 Inspiration

Bloom 4 Inspiration

Bloom 5 Transformation

Bloom 5 Transformation

My Personal Blooming Plan

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

I’d like to thank my husband, James, for the life we have shared, which is beyond compare. I have tested him and have been tested by him. In my faults, I have sought his forgiveness. I have laughed with him, cried with him, and prayed for and with him, and he has always supported all my endeavors. He offered many helpful comments on how to express my thoughts to women in the content of this book.

James, I adore you more every day. I cannot imagine where my life would be without you. Thank you for sharing this life with me and our children, Sonya, James II, and Loretta A. Your unwavering faith has made the celebration of our marriage sacred. You are truly my blessing from God.

I want to thank the hundreds of members within the body of Christ for sharing their stories, as well as our friends who seek daily to live out the biblical call of a truly blessed marriage. What a joy it has been to work in ministry with so many wonderful people.

Introduction

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Nothing feels better than a great marriage. Nothing hurts worse than an unhappy one.

Based on the Word, it is no surprise that God wired women and men differently. Sometimes we can recognize the