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    Don’T Waste Your Mad: A Relationship Empowerment Guide
    Don’T Waste Your Mad: A Relationship Empowerment Guide
    Don’T Waste Your Mad: A Relationship Empowerment Guide
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    Don’T Waste Your Mad: A Relationship Empowerment Guide

    By Rodney Jenkins

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    Good communication, often said to be the key to every successful relationship, can be challenging to master without the right tools. In his relationship empowerment guide, author Rodney Jenkins offers a comprehensive road map that teaches couples how to speak openly to each other about both the good and the bad, listen effectively, and focus on long-term relationship growth.

    Jenkins relies on real-life scenarios as well as his own professional, personal, and faithbasedexperiences to offer couples clear ground rules for communication, including schedulingdaily conversations, introducing I messages, and engaging in active listening techniques that help break down barriers and create intimacy. Through his proactive methods, Jenkins helps couples learn how todeal with communication roadblocks;

    maintain good communication during hardships; better understand a partner and the process of love; root a relationship in spirituality, honesty, and friendship; and focus on the big picture.

    Dont Waste Your Mad provides couples with the tools to build, strengthen, and maintain a strong relationship through effective communication while growing together financially, spiritually, and emotionally.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJan 31, 2014
    ISBN9781491721742
    Don’T Waste Your Mad: A Relationship Empowerment Guide
    Author

    Rodney Jenkins

    Rodney Jenkins earned a bachelor of science degree in business management and a master of management degree from Myers University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is experienced in leading marketing and communications departments and political and issues-based campaigns, as well as developing strategies to address and prevent crises. Rodney, a dedicated husband, father, and man of God, currently lives in Pennsylvania.

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      Don’T Waste Your Mad - Rodney Jenkins

      Copyright © 2014 Rodney Jenkins.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4917-2173-5 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-2175-9 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-2174-2 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014900861

      iUniverse rev. date: 01/31/2014

      Contents

      Dedication

      Grandma’s Poem For My Special Babies"

      Forward

      Acknowledgment

      Introduction The Overview Of A Wasted Mad!

      Chapter One Developing Communicative Tools

      Chapter Two The Communication Process

      Chapter Three Who Are You? Do You Know Your Partner?

      Chapter Four The Three L’s… Lust, Like, & Love

      Chapter Five What Does Matter In Relationships?

      Chapter Six Avoiding The Divorce Process

      Chapter Seven Are We Equally Yoked? Summing It All Up!

      Chapter Eight Faith

      About The Author

      Bibliography

      Dedication

      This book could be dedicated to the many special women in my life, including my wife, sister, sister-in-laws, or special friends. I hope they all understand that I must dedicate it to the one I miss the most… Dorothy Ruby Jean Jenkins, my mother who passed away on February 17, 2012 after a long battle with cancer.

      One of my last major conversations with my mother occurred in her bedroom right before Christmas 2011. We talked for almost three hours, about her life, her children and grandchildren, and her relationship with God. She expressed to me that despite what others were saying she was more coherent and understood exactly what was happening to her and around her. What put me at ease was that she was at peace. Finding peace in life is a very difficult challenge for many, but being able to find peace during the transition period takes a person who has become self-actualized. She touched many people, she made us laugh, made us strong, taught us who they were and who’s we were, she gave us love as well as taught us how to love. This book is an example of how a mother’s influence can continue on well after she has departed the earthly realm. For over 75 years we were blessed to know, love and be loved by Dorothy Ruby Jean Jenkins. Everything I am and everything I hope to be I owe to my mother.

      On the following page is a poem I wrote and asked one of her great-grandchildren to read during her home-going service. My mother had a deep-deep love for everyone, but a special affinity for her grand and great-grandchildren; they all were her My Special Babies.

      Grandma’s Poem for My Special Babies"

      The Lord has called me home, please release me; Let me go!

      For my body was borrowed and just clay;

      And now my soul and spirit is with God today

      I know you will shed some tears;

      But please be happy and blessed we had so many years

      I gave you my unconditional love; you gave me extraordinary happiness

      But now it’s time I travel alone; so please don’t grieve for me too long

      It’s only for a while that we must part;

      So cherish and bless the memories within your heart

      God Bless and good bye my family and friends;

      As I await the time we all meet again.

      Amen.

      Forward

      I applaud Rodney Jenkins for having the courage to step out and produce such a comprehensive product that embarks on the importance of communication. He has shown both his spiritual and scholarly sides in this project. As Jesus journeyed across the many lands he used his communicative tools to inspire, motivate, to teach and to empower the people to seek and believe the word of God.

      Well, couples, friends, family members, teachers, students, and the scholarly can use this book and the outlined strategies as tools to learn more effective ways to communicate. After all, Jesus was the greatest of all communicators and because of him we all can become great communicators. For the word of God says, in Jeremiah (1:9), Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth, (NKJV).

      In Don’t Waste Your Mad, Rodney Jenkins forces people to look inward to examine personal thoughts, and motives regarding the way we interpret and respond to people, especially loved ones. The word of God further says in James (1:19), "Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath," (NKJV). Learning what to say is good, but also learning when to say it is even better for the growth of both the sender and the receiver of the message.

      I enjoyed reading this book and I understand that it was not written to be solely a religious teaching. In Don’t Waste Your Mad, Rodney Jenkins did an awesome job at merging the pedagogical and theological theories and teachings. I am proud to both know and have taught him.

      Dr. Michelle Spain, Professor

      Deville School of Business

      Walsh University

      Acknowledgment

      Each of us has a gift and a passion and when those two meet the sky is the limit. All my life I love and appreciate the art associated with words on paper. I have always been inspired by a person’s ability to document their thoughts in such a way that those who read the words can actually get into the author’s views. As my first project I tried to open my heart through my words on these pages. It takes being able to still away, find that peaceful and spiritual place and allow the mental faucets to flow. I thank my dearest wife Lesley Dionne Jenkins for

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