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Summary: Life-changing!
Review: I can't get enough of this book! I'm amazed that the first copyright of this book was over 25 years ago! What amazing wisdom to be able to keenly right for wives back then that still holds true today. Linda Dillow does a fabulous job of combining pratical wisdom in balancing life with the need to realize that God is fully in control. With two toddlers living in my house, I found the Priority Planner to be a saving grace for balancing all my roles. And her straightforward speaking about our attitudes toward our husbands was eye-opening and humbling. I'm sorry for the wife above who was beaten by her husband, but I do not believe that it was a product of this book. Integrating the suggestions from this book will not make you a doormat; you must trust God to protect you from that. But it will free you up to live according to what His scripture dictates. Very practical and insightful. Thank you Mrs. Dillow for your wisdom and advice!
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Summary: Keep an open mind if you think submission is a diry word!
Review: I found this book very helpful in re-evaluating the way I treat my husband. In today's society, the word "submissive" is often defined as synonymous with "doormat." However, Linda Dillow's description of submission and how it works in a marriage was enlightening to me. I am already seeing a difference in my marriage, and I feel more at peace with my role as a Christian wife.
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Summary: Keep an open mind if you think submission is a diry word!
Review: I found this book very helpful in re-evaluating the way I treat my husband. In today's society, the word "submissive" is often defined as synonymous with "doormat." However, Linda Dillow's description of submission and how it works in a marriage was enlightening to me. I am already seeing a difference in my marriage, and I feel more at peace with my role as a Christian wife.
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Summary: Pick this one!
Review: I have read nearly a dozen books on growing as a wife and/or mother in the past two years, and this is by far the best overall book I have come accross. Dillow writes in a very concise, purposeful and poignant way. Dillow consitently writes the best study questions I have seen in women's books. They are thoughtful, challenging and always very practical. Dillow is both practical and deeply theological.
Chapter 4, called "priority planner" provides the best organizational scheme for ordering your daily life and home that I have seen. I have always been very organized, but Dillows plan took my daily routine to another level - a much more peaceful and fruitful one. I especially recommend this book for moms with several small children who have very little time, or with women who are making home their full time job for the first time and need some help learning how to self manage their time 24-7.
I suggest grabbing your best friend or two and reading this book together, following the study guide in the back. Most of us need the accountability and friendship to process the deep and challenging things that Dillow presents in this classic book. This book would work very well as a curriculum for a church class. Our church also uses it for 1 - 1 mentorship.
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Summary: Can You Give Minus Stars? Call Her Creative Co-Dependent!
Review: I read this book years ago and tried to live it in my former marriage. I became nothing more than my husband's sweet little doormat. While I tried to practice what she preaches, he slapped me around, he drank himself senseless and he molested my daughter. Some marriages are not worth saving. And the Holy Spirit most certainly never intervened. The damage done to my child, who is now a woman herself and who was so terribly spiritually damaged by my following this GARBAGE, still enrages me when I think of the name Linda Dillow. Because of this idiotic drivel that passes for "godly counsel", my daughter now struggles to have some kind of relationship with God due to the abuse she both witnessed and experienced in my former marriage. Thank God I finally trashed the book and got out of the marriage. Thank Jehovah that my daughter is more of a feminist than I chose to be. Hopefully one day, despite her experiences with my ex, she will come to know that the Father/Husband heart of God is not like what she experienced. Hopefully she'll listen to Him directly and trash books by people like Ms. Dillow who only claim to know Him. Is anyone aware that one of the "perfect" wives who taught this to other women was murdered by her husband who was out having kinky sex with other women? Does everyone swallow this twisted version of Biblical femininity without ever questioning? I stayed single for 10 years after that marriage ended because I swore I would never allow anyone to treat me like that again. Thankfully now, I have a wonderful husband but he respects me too much to want me to be the saccharine type wife described in this book. Our relationship is Adult to Adult, not patronizing pompous husband to simpering doormat wife. If you want a book that is good to use as kindling, this would be the one!!!
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Summary: A softened and happier heart
Review: I strongly recomend this book to anyone that is getting married, to those that are. This book has completely changed my marriage for the better. It has given me a new understanding of what submission is and isn't. I have learned how to be a positive influence in my marriage instead of setting myself up for disaster. I have a lot of improving left to do but I now have the tools that I need to improve my relationship with not only my husband but with God as well. Before reading this book I was unsure of my role as a wife and mother. I wanted to be a contributer not a burden, but didn't know how. Now that I have read this book I know what God wants for me and my marriage. I know it won't happen over night but I am willing to try.
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Summary: A must-read/do for every Christian wife!
Review: Linda Dillow's book should be required reading of every Christian wife ! Especially helpful for those with children, Dillow addresses submission, priorities, and putting the ZIP back into your love life, amoung other topics. Very easy read, thought-provoking, encouraging, motivating. It's like having a mentor over for tea. I've read many Christian -authored books on marriage; this is THE practical and Bible-centered "how-to" guide for a wife. If I had nothing else on my shelves except Creative Counterpart and my Bible - my library would be complete! This book has changed my marriage, and deepened my Walk immeasureably. Buy it NOW and start pouring over each chapter. Bravo, and thank you to Mrs. Dillow!!!
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Summary: THIS BOOK WILL TAKE YOU INTO GOD'S WORD & CHANGE YOUR LIFE!
Review: WOW!!! This book has changed the lives of a lot of women in our church. It truly gives God's perspective on the type of wife, woman, & mother we should be. It gives GREAT biblical & practical application to the struggles we face in all areas of our lives. During this study, I became to know God in a whole different way. It addresses seeing & treating our husbands as a gift from God. It helps with organization, submission, purpose, sex, and how to be consistent with what you learn. It teaches you how to love your husband & accept his love for you. Also, it focuses on your relationship with God regardless of your spouses response. If you apply these Godly principles & go into the word of God with her, you will become a totally different person through the grace of God.
This study taught me how to allow God to love my husband through me & it is Way better than the "spark" you have when you are dating. If you open your heart to God, he will change your life through this study.
Also, the review that stated she became a door mat as a result of this book. My heart goes out to her. The author address that on page 145. It by no means insinuated that you should allow physical, verbal, or emotional abuse.
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