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Good book

Revisado: 01-22-19

I enjoyed this book and how it aligns the strengthsfinder results to marriage relationships, but I’m concerned it doesn’t address what most almost-failed marriages need. Most marriages that are not working well have major issues that need to be dealt with before we can start respecting each other’s strengths. Jimmy gives the example of putting golf before his wife; this is an issue he fixed before their marriage could be fixed. The book seems to make it seem like if we just look at each other’s strengths we can turn our marriage around, but what about the issues that aren’t being addressed? No matter what strengths there are, unaddressed issues will eat away at the marriage and we will attempt to save our marriage by focusing on our strengths in vain. I would have liked to have seen a little more self-reflection strategies in here based on strengths and weaknesses before addressing how we should just respect each other’s strengths. Once respect is lost, it’s hard to get it back without addressing the issues that caused it to diminish. Just saying we should respect each other’s strengths does not work when it’s hard to respect someone who has done things to lose this respect in the first place.
I did enjoy the book though. I appreciate the two viewpoints of each author in their field of expertise. It was easy to listen to and think it can be really helpful in building marriages where issues have first been addressed.
Maybe I’m wrong in my opinion, I just don’t feel very hopeful in how successful it will be. I am going to try it out though.

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