Week 1: Broken Is Good

• Brokenness becomes strength
• Hisstory
• Acceptance

Week 2: To Love and Be Loved

• Loneliness
• In His image of love
• Love is the fulfilling of the law

Week 3: Hateful and Hating One Another

• The genesis of relationship problems
• Corrupted by sin/designed for love
• Born again
• The best still falls short

Week 4: The Source of Love

• Love holds us together
• The root and the fruit
• Divine love begins where human love ends
• The love primer

Week 5: Our First Bonding Lessons

• Mother
• Father
• Now what?
• How does God reparent us?
• Willing to trust

Week 6: Brothers, Sisters, Friends

• Sibling rivalry and beyond
• How siblings shape us
• The benefits of friends
• Your brain on friends
• The how of friend-making
• The how of friend-keeping

Week 7: Sex, Plained

• Eros
• The Creator of sex
• Relationship-based sex
• The Coolidge effect
• God’s design
• The enemy’s diversions

Week 8: Dating, Courting, Engagement, and Beyond

• Falling in love
• A history
• Definitions
• Friendship dating, serious dating, engagement

Week 9: Then Two = One

• Male and female: Equal . . .
• But different
• God’s plan
• Reactive cycles? Go vertical
• Love thrives in freedom
• Tselem marriage

Week 10: One Sinner Parenting Another

• Support and control
• Dare to disciple—with freedom
• Consequences, natural and applied
• Tony

Week 11: Abuse Stops Here

• Hellhole home
• Effects of abuse
• Healing is possible

Week 12: The Lost Art of Talking

• Life is an onion
• Open up a workroom
• Empathy
• Listening to resolve conflict
• Dealing with feelings

Week 13: The Church of “If-All-Else-Fails”

• Yeah, right!
• One day a week to love
• A portrait of Jesus

Toolbox:

• Biblical Affirmations
• Blessed Are the Peacemakers
• Breaking Cycles
• Breathe Away Stress
• Common Defense Mechanisms
• Dating? Courting? Engaged?
• Distorted Thoughts
• Do I Have Love?
• Establishing Empathy With EAR
• Fact, Feeling, and Follow-Through
• FAR Exercise
• Feeling Words
• The Five Cs of Choosing a Life Partner
• Four Negative Patterns of Communication
• Gracious Assertiveness
• His Needs—Her Needs
• Important/Urgent Matrix
• Is It Love or Infatuation?
• Love Languages
• Love, the Fulfilling of the Law
• Parenting Competencies
• RAD Symptom Checklist
• Relationship Wound Inventory
• Sex Out of Bounds
• Social Skills 101
• Therapies That Have Helped PTSD
• Walking With Jesus
• The Work of the Holy Spirit