Great Parents, Lousy Lovers: Discover How to Enjoy Life with Your Spouse While Raising Your Kids

Great Parents, Lousy Lovers is a challenging guide for couples to begin re-investing in their marriage and not just their children. The greatest gift parents can give their children is a mother and father who love each other deeply, because a great marriage is the single most important parenting tool. Review Great Parents, Lousy Lovers by Dr. Gary Smalley and Ted Cunningham ($17.99, Tyndale House Publishers, softcover) is another one of those books that will not be officially released until September. Dr. Smalley has authored sixteen books on family relationships and Cunningham is a pastor who co-authored three of them with him. Both have been guests on leading radio and television shows, sharing their expertise. Filled with wit, wisdom, and practical advice, the good news is that partners can be great parents and still maintain a healthy love life to ensure a happy marriage which they regard as essential to good parenting. Readers will learn how to maintain a proper balance and to avoid or deal with the frustration and fatigue that the demands of parenting often impose. If this describes your marriage, put this book on your reading list. --Bookviews.com, June 28, 2010 From the Inside Flap You might be a great parent but a lousy lover if you and your spouse . . .let your kids sleep in your bed with youcan?t remember the last time you went on an actual dateare regularly late to events and activities because you are coming from other events and activitiesfeel more like cooks, maids, or chauffeurs than lovers From the Back Cover You love your kids . . . but where did the intimacy go?From changing diapers to playing chauffeur, it?s easy to spend so much time and energy on your kids that at the end of a long, exhausting day, you have nothing left for your spouse. Too often, being a great parent comes at the expense of having a great marriage.InGreat Parents, Lousy Lovers, relationship experts Dr. Gary Smalley and Ted Cunningham, authors ofFrom Anger to Intimacy, show you that it is possible to be a great parentand a great lover. This book will help you and your spouse to begin reinvesting in your marriage?not just your children?because the best foundation for great parenting is a happy, healthy marriage.Filled with wit, wisdom, and practical advice,Great Parents, Lousy Lovers will help you move from a frustrating, fatiguing, out-of-balance, kid-centered marriage to a strong, life-giving, fulfilling, couple-centered relationship.