By reading this book, you are taking a major step into healthier, more beneficial relationships. But also, you're willing to examine yourself to become a more positive and compassionate wife, husband, and friend to give and receive love and loyalty, and to learn how to identify areas of trauma and dysfunctional habits. You will learn to distinguish between healthy and toxic relationships, as you change your circle, you will change your life. You will also learn the importance of knowing who you are, setting proper boundaries, and knowing when to walk away. While getting an understanding of how a toxic person becomes toxic, at times it's due to trauma. How to identify a narcissist? But also, learning how to help others heal (God is the answer).
This book will break down healthy and toxic relationships with scriptural-based wisdom. After all, Jesus was and still is the perfect example of a good friend and shows us in the Bible how to model and have healthy relationships. We must understand that relationships have always been important to God, not just our relationship with Him but others as well. God created man, and one of the first things He said about him was that "It is not good for the man to be alone" (Gen 2:18). Granted, God said this as He was preparing to create a wife for Adam, but the principle applies more broadly when one reads Scripture and sees just how important healthy relationships are in a life of faith. Where would David be without Jonathan? What about Paul without Silas? God intends for us to be together with others in a Christ-centered loving relationship(s), and no one is healthy without them. That said, some relationships do more harm than good when the people involved are emotionally detrimental. This book will help you distinguish between the two. Feel free to take notes and even journal while reading, I believe this will reveal truth, break dysfunctional cycles and even bring healing to you.
