For a woman who won't settle for "good enough" in her marriage. Do you understand the difference between kind and nice? What if you could appreciate the difference-and then find a way to live out that difference in your marriage? This single concept could transform could your marriage! Are you interested? When you find yourself in the situation where: - you know you love him - he's fundamentally a great guy - but you're struggling with the distance between you and... - it seems he just doesn't understand how hard it is for you...then Nice to a Fault: Redefining Kindness in Marriage is the book that will give you some the language to articulate your situation, and the tools to do something about it. If you have been unendingly nice and he just doesn't appreciate your efforts, it hurts. When you work to understand what he needs, be patient when he is busy, make sure he gets his play time and you never get yours, and he doesn't even notice-that is painful. When he loves the life the two of you have created, but you're exhausted and burnt out, you just wanna scream. You may not be in trouble yet, but the pattern has been set--and now, unless something changes, it may be only a matter of time before the relationship is just a shell...looks good on the outside, but empty on the inside. Carolyn Klassen, is a popular blogger, keynote and TEDx speaker and sought-after-therapist with 20 years of experience. This book is written out of her many years of work with couples in therapy. She writes clearly and poignantly about the pain women experience when their husbands hear their concerns without really "getting it." Nice to a fault: Redefining Kindness in Marriage will support and encourage you to take steps to create important shifts that simply cannot be ignored. Klassen gives clear understanding, practical tools, and deep compassion needed to find the motivation to say, "I matter in this marriage too, and it absolutely needs to start working better for me." Klassen writes to wives who know their marriage is slowly deteriorating, and their husbands are oblivious. There are a lot of guys that are fantastic men, but don't realize that they are actually not-so-great in being husbands. Practical, inspiring, and supportive, this book creates a different space to ensure that you can make positive changes in your marriage. Ironically, and also beautifully--when you are happier, your husband will be too!

He argues that these were expressions of the early, "back-to-nature" movement whose underlying biological materialism, or "Naturalism," was integral to American popular culture of the time.".

In a moment of self-absorption, Clara Purdy's life takes a sharp left turn when she crashes into a beat-up car carrying an itinerant family of six. The Gage family had been travelling to a new life in Fort McMurray, but bruises on the mother, Lorraine, prove to be late-stage cancer rather than remnants of the accident. Recognizing their need as her responsibility, Clara tries to do the right thing and moves the children, husband, and horrible grandmother into her own house--then has to cope with the consequences of practical goodness. What, exactly, does it mean to be good? When is sacrifice merely selfishness? What do we owe in this life and what do we deserve? Marina Endicott looks at life and death through the compassionate lens of a born novelist: being good, being at fault, and finding some balance on the precipice.

Originally published as an e-book that became a controversial media phenomenon, No More Mr. Nice Guy! landed its author, a certified marriage and family therapist, on The O'Reilly Factor and the Rush Limbaugh radio show. Dr. Robert Glover has dubbed the "Nice Guy Syndrome" trying too hard to please others while neglecting one's own needs, thus causing unhappiness and resentfulness. It's no wonder that unfulfilled Nice Guys lash out in frustration at their loved ones, claims Dr. Glover. He explains how they can stop seeking approval and start getting what they want in life, by presenting the information and tools to help them ensure their needs are met, to express their emotions, to have a satisfying sex life, to embrace their masculinity and form meaningful relationships with other men, and to live up to their creative potential.

Software patterns have revolutionized the way developer’s and architects think about how software is designed, built and documented. This new title in Wiley’s prestigious Series in Software Design Patterns presents proven techniques to achieve patterns for fault tolerant software. This is a key reference for experts seeking to select a technique appropriate for a given system. Readers are guided from concepts and terminology, through common principles and methods, to advanced techniques and practices in the development of software systems. References will provide access points to the key literature, including descriptions of exemplar applications of each technique. Organized into a collection of software techniques, specific techniques can be easily found with sufficient detail to allow appropriate choices for the system being designed.