Scary close: dropping the act and finding true intimacy
When fling after fling led to lots of drama and a long series of heartaches, Donald Miller decided he'd had enough. There must be a better way to soothe loneliness without jumping on a roller coaster, to feel affirmation without putting on a show, to find true love. It wasn't just about finding the right girl, though that helped. Once he found her, he had to know what to do or "who to be." A manipulative control freak? A successful workaholic? His usual methods had drawbacks. But the alternativ…
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- Full title :Scary close : dropping the act and finding true intimacy / Donald Miller.
Summary
When fling after fling led to lots of drama and a long series of heartaches, Donald Miller decided he'd had enough. There must be a better way to soothe loneliness without jumping on a roller coaster, to feel affirmation without putting on a show, to find true love. It wasn't just about finding the right girl, though that helped. Once he found her, he had to know what to do or "who to be." A manipulative control freak? A successful workaholic? His usual methods had drawbacks. But the alternatives were not just hard to do; they were hard to imagine. Nevertheless, at forty years old he made a scary decision: to be himself no matter what it cost.
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- Publication Date:©2014
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Nelson Books
- Place of Publication:Nashville, Tennessee
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
The Physical Object
- Description:xvi, 231 pages ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780785213185, 078521318X, 0718035674, 9780718035679
- oclc:ocn900731656
- LC Classification:BV4597.53.I55
- Dewey Decimal:158.2
Table of Contents
Foreword / by Bob Goff -- The distracting noises of insecurity -- You are good at relationships -- Everybody's got a story and it's not the one they're telling -- Why some animals make themselves look bigger than they are -- Three things I learned about relationships from swimming in a pond -- Performance anxiety in real life -- The people we choose to love -- Control freak -- Five kinds of manipulators -- Lucy in the kitchen -- The risk of being careful -- Great parents do this well -- The stuff of a meaningful life -- Do men do intimacy differently? -- You will not complete me -- The place we left our ghosts.
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