Unit One
--
MEANING LOVERS NEED
A great many women and men feel that life is meaningless, that others are
passing them by, because they are living a purposeless and secular life
style.
In this unit the participants shall discover the necessity of opening
channels
of meaning for life to be consistently filled with love.
Unit Two
--
FAITH LOVERS SHARE
Faith, hope and love are necessary for a
loving relationship to become permanent and deeply satisfying. In this unit
the participant shall learn how to deal with The Atheist’s Enigma, to find
satisfaction through a Contrite Spirit and how to live in a state of
consistent development.
Unit Three --
CHANGES LOVERS FACE
We live in an age of constant change in which a great many women and men
become confused and frightened by having to cope with new situations and
relationships. In this unit the participants will learn how to cope with
constant shifts in attitudes, expectations and relationships.
Unit Four --
RELATIONSHIPS LOVERS ENTER
A person who understands the primary personality patterns will be much
better able to cope with and better influence his or her lover. In this unit
the participant will learn to identify personality patterns and to deal
successfully with psychological attitudes and emotional expectations.
Unit Five --
CONFLICTS LOVERS CONTROL
Because we are the quarrelsome species, few couples live together without
disagreements and conflicts. In this unit the participant will learn how to
avoid conflicts through the Three Stage Conflict Avoidance Process and to
control them with the ASRAC Process.
Unit Six
--
SUPPORT LOVERS GIVE
No one can live alone, without the supportive love and friendship that all
humans need for their lives to become fulfilling and satisfying. In the unit
the participant shall learn how support works, how to use symbolic support
and to use both unconditional and conditional support of one’s lover.
Unit Seven --
ADJUSTMENTS LOVERS LEARN
All lovers must share the responsibilities and rewards of life to keep the
partner from being used and abused in the relationship. The participants
will learn how to make subliminal and obvious trades-offs in order to
compromise and to win consistently with satisfying sexual tradeoffs.
Unit Eight
--
MOODS LOVERS HAVE
All lovers are tempted to play psychological games that support one’s ego at
the expense of the partner’s satisfaction. In this unit the participant
shall learn why cruel set-up operations are used and how they destroy love
until the lovers become mutually supportive.
Unit Nine --
GAME PLANS LOVERS FOLLOW
The power of expectations are so strong that virtually every person establishes a
game plan to follow in a marriage or a relationship. In this
unit, the participant will learn how to avoid destructive game plans and to
develop key game plans that lead to consistently high expectations.
Unit Ten --
GENDER ROLES LOVERS PLAY
Each person comes to love and sex with expectations that can be positive or
negative, conscious or unconscious. In this unit the participant shall learn
to identify several common destroyers of love and to compensate with
mutually satisfying attitudes and activities.
Unit Eleven --
CONTRACTS LOVERS NEED
If conflicts have been a problem in a marriage, the couple can develop
mutually agreeable contracts that spell out their rewards. In this unit the
participant will learn how to offer due consideration, use free negotiation
and make legitimate agreements that please both lovers.
Unit Twelve --
LIVES LOVERS SHARE
Lovers must mature beyond
self-defeating love-themes that destroy relationships. In this unit the
participant shall learn how to
develop and apply satisfying
love themes and use them to make life deeply satisfying.
We wish you the very best as you
make your life meaningful and fill it with love.
Few
activities have been more satisfying for us than working together on
LOVERS FOR LIFE.
This course
and the book from which it came has enabled us to plan and execute a major
project together. Then, with that work under our belt, we have also
completed FULFILLMENT
- Through Faith, Hope And Love, which is a companion to this course. In fact, Lovers could be compared to
giving birth to one of our children. The most valuable aspect of working
together was the way it allowed us to look over our marriage and our lives
to see how things were going. We found some things that should have
been better spelled out earlier, old problems best buried in the past, and
some strengths we had long overlooked. We found, as Tevye and Golde did in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
...