There are 23 million divorced people in the United States today. More than 80 percent of these people will remarry, and many of those marriages will fail. Divorce recovery experts Edward Tauber and Jim Smoke draw on their 30 years of experience as divorce counselors and a survey of more than 600 individuals to explore why people end up divorced again and what they can do to successfully remarry. To help readers avoid making the mistakes others have made, the authors present 13 wrong reasons to remarry, including: • loneliness • need to be needed • to provide fathers or moms for kids • to prove the divorce wasn't their fault • they've found their "soul mates" Tauber and Smoke provide practical guidelines based on biblical principles to help people find partners who share values, have compatible personalities, agree on child-raising principles, and more. Includes helpful "Ready2Remarry" self-test. More than 80 percent of divorced people remarry─and most of those marriages fail. Tauber and Smoke draw on 30 years of experience as divorce counselors and a 600-person survey to explore why people divorce again. They offer guidelines based on biblical principles to help readers successfully remarry. Includes "Ready2Remarry" self-test. Edward M. Tauber, a corporate researcher, industry consultant, and divorce counselor received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. A former full professor and department chairman at the University of Southern California, he's also been a senior executive and consultant with many Fortune 500 companies. Edward and his wife, Monica, live in California. Jim Smoke is an internationally known author, speaker, and life coach. He has been a pioneer in the divorce recovery field for more than 30 years. Along with serving as a singles pastor, Jim has written more than 18 books geared to the single and single—again community worldwide including his bestselling Growing Through Divorce (nearly 600,000 copies sold). Jim and his wife, Carol, live in California.
