Before a Bad Goodbye

by Tim Clinton

Book Overview

Tim Clinton has seen three outcomes through his marriage counseling practice-divorce, marriage in name only, and reconciliation. Reconciliation is, by far, the most difficult option. In Before a Bad Goodbye, he shows couples at the breaking point how to nurture forgiveness, develop mutual respect and demonstrate selfless love on a new path to reconciliation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0849937434
• ISBN13: 9780849937439
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Replace a Bad Goodbye with Rekindled Love

Tim Clinton's book "Before a Bad Goodbye" is easy to read, is full of stories, practical advice, and most importantly hope. The first part of the book explains how you got to where you are in your marriage (you will think he is writing about YOU) and the second half of the book is how to rekindle your love for one another, even when one spouse is doing most of the trying. Tim Clinton emphasizes that marriages are sacred and holy ground, but he provides hope so that you don't feel like you are "gutting it out" for the next 20 or 40 years, just because God says so. It will help you fall in love all over again, and with the person God has given you. God bless you, and never, never, give up, and never, never lose hope!

Before a Bad Goodbye

I'm a therapist who does a lot of couples counseling. This is the best book I've read on understanding and healing your relationships. I wish every client and couple struggling with their relationship would read this! It offers a Christian perspective from a caring, yet straight-forward approach. If you're in doubt about your relationship, please read this!

Finally a plan of action...

I read a few other books, and they were good in that they told me what I needed to change to be a good husband. This book was different in that it had a plan on how to repair your marriage and how to use what I had learned in real life. It had a few steps that you both can do to get on the right track. I appreciated the honesty and frankness of the guidance. You or your spouse has the option for divorce, but if you don't want to choose that, it show you what you need to do and work on to fix things.

Before a bad goodbye

Dr. Clinton seemed to be living with us as I read this book. He showed how we got to this stage and gave great Christian help and tools to try and save our marriage. A must read if your marriage is at the end of it's rope.