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    How to Be a Best Friend Forever: Making and Keeping Lifetime Relationships
    How to Be a Best Friend Forever: Making and Keeping Lifetime Relationships
    How to Be a Best Friend Forever: Making and Keeping Lifetime Relationships
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    How to Be a Best Friend Forever: Making and Keeping Lifetime Relationships

    Written by Dr. John Townsend

    Narrated by Dr. John Townsend

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    About this audiobook

    Our world has diluted the meaning of friendship, but the reality is, there’s nothing like the sustaining strength of true-blue, forever friends. Still, many people are convinced that they’ll never find such lifelong connections — or that they don’t need them.

    In this encouraging audio book, best-selling author and psychologist John Townsend delivers hope and help for making these relationships a reality — and for making them even better if you’ve already got a “bestie.” His eight principles for building the very best kind of friendship, along with his shared experiences within his own friendships (including mistakes he’s made), will move every listener to aspire to deeper connections and to stay the course when challenges arise.

    Townsend’s simple but profound concepts are sure to transform listeners’ relationships and keep them from missing out on one of life’s greatest and most essential joys: the joy of having a best friend.

    ©2012 John Townsend (P)2011 Oasis

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOasis Audio
    Release dateJan 3, 2012
    ISBN9781608149421
    How to Be a Best Friend Forever: Making and Keeping Lifetime Relationships

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    • 5/5
      Great book, I needed help on friendship with my fiancée and I have a better perspective of looking at it.
    • 5/5
      A small book but packed with a lot good tips in how to have healthy relationships or BFF. I really love this book.
    • 5/5
      Really great book! Some juicy lessons here that anyone can use and apply to enhance their friendships!
    • 3/5
      A decent book that shares a number of stories and ideas that are focused on having a best friend(s) in your life.

      The author is clearly a Christian based therapist and uses many quotes from the Bible as well as examples of stories where he mentions the church.

      While I don’t deeply connect with that it’s not a deal breaker for me to hear it. But I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned in the description of the book as that might attract some and of course push some away but mostly feel it should be known upfront.

      This book wasn’t groundbreaking for me but it did keep your mind focused on ideas and stories to have a best friend and that’s a good thing.
    • 5/5
      Packed with practical relationship advice! I enjoyed listening to this.
    • 4/5
      How to Be a Best Friend ForeverDr. John TownsendBook Summary: Our world has diluted the meaning of friendship, but the reality is, there’s nothing like the sustaining strength of true-blue, forever friends. Still, many people are convinced that they’ll never find such lifelong connections—or that they don’t need them. In this encouraging book, best-selling author and psychologist John Townsend delivers hope and help for making these relationships a reality—and for making them even better if you’ve already got a “bestie.” His eight principles for building the very best kind of friendship, along with his shared experiences within his own friendships (including mistakes he’s made), will move every reader to aspire to deeper connections and to stay the course when challenges arise. Townsend’s simple but profound concepts are sure to transform readers’ relationships and keep them from missing out on one of life’s greatest and most essential joys: the joy of having a best friend.Review: I found this book to be a good help for how to be a better friend and how to nurture a friendship. I really liked the aspect of the book referring to the how we need a variety of friends. It was a tremendous help with understanding the varied aspects of friendship. The book draws on the author's own experiences. It was very detailed with the varied aspects of friendship and how to grow a friendship even deeper through shared experiences and suffering. It also help with explaining how friendships may suffer from experiences that can stall a growing friendship. I would like to thank Net Galley and Worthy Publishing for allowing me to read and review this book in return for a free copy and I was never asked to write a favorable review by anyone.