Johanna Sparrow

You've been playing games in your relationship far too long and it's about to cost you what you really want, love. If you don't pull it together and get a grip, you know you will be alone soon. Fearing rejection and abandonment, a person with the fearful avoidant attachment style is passive-aggressive and has a hard time seeing their own worth. They question love and their actions are confusing to their partner. This book discusses all four attachment styles, but highlights the fearful avoidant partner.

How Understanding the Four Main Styles of Attachment Can Impact Your Relationship

Fearful- Avoidant in Love

Having the love you want takes you understanding your relationship, your needs and your partner's needs. What makes love a sin is when you allow yourself to be used, abused and mistreated thinking you are growing your relationship. My intention is to teach you how to recognize the sins of love so you can have the love and relationship you desire.

The Secret to Having the Love You Desire

The Seven Sins of Love

H. Smith

Everyone, has a story to tell, I've just been contemplating if the world was ready to hear mine. You would be surprised at who will try to stop you from telling your story as if it will affect them. Where were those so-called family members when I was killing myself on the streets looking for love? I am here only by the grace of God. I have scars and my scars cover me from head to toe. Isn't it funny how in the midst of your darkest hours of life and sin that darkness tries to make you laugh? It makes you forget about all the sorrow and pain it put you through before issuing you another gut-wrenching blow of misfortune? But, life never really offered me a laugh. I found my comfort by diving into a life of drugs and prostitution. My life was anything but perfect. And I knocked busters on their ass, men twice my size to prove that, I would not be taken advantage of in these streets. Fighting my brothers and sisters was a way of life. My family outcast me and my mamma turned her back to me while I was treated like trash in my own family. Abuse, neglect, suicide, drug addiction and prostitution were a part of my darkest hours of life. Could it be that my mind has been trying to outrun my pain and sorrow all these years? Or is it that my pain doesn't want me to forget what has happened? I thought that if I got married life would change for me, but looking back on it and laughing now, married life did not treat me any better. And that's because my husband was strung out on heroin and running the streets sleeping with crackheads and whores. My family outcast me and my husband beat me. I laid down to die as a way to escape the pain I was feeling, but death didn't want me, not then. How did I get myself out of such a predicament? I did by the grace and mercy of God. I know that diamonds are precious stones. They are ugly to look at in their natural state and found amongst rocks and dirt walked on by people who don't know their worth. I was a diamond and did not know my worth so long ago. I was stepped on in life and by people I loved and who I thought loved me. I added to my darkest hours with my own hands by the things that I was doing; I don't deny it. Today I am delivered, no longer living in life's darkest hours. I've survived my hell on earth and not ashamed to tell my story. Getting here wasn't easy, I cried many nights, but I am here strong standing in God's mercy and grace. I've overcome it all and if I can survive my darkest hours of life and find peace and happiness, so can you.

A Memoir; the Confessions of a Young Woman's Battle With Abuse, Drug Addiction and Prostitution

Helen's Scars

It doesn't matter how fast or strong I get, I'll never outrun her or be stronger than her. Mother is strong and has many lives. She keeps me as her servant and her bitch. I'm a mistake that she desperately tries to cover up. Mother would probably be ecstatic if I was a whore and a liar, but since I'm neither, she despises me. In time, you'll come to know why I've decided to tell the world my tumultuous story.I wouldn't recommend reliving an abusive past, but for the last forty-plus years, I've been living a lie. Daily, I'm finding broken pieces of myself scattered around because of how Mother and her sons shattered the real me. Now, I must put myself back together. I've beat myself up for staying in their lives far too long; hoping they'd eventually welcome, accept, and love me. But instead, I've continued to be used and abused. I'm often left with anger, rage, and thoughts of having their heads on a platter.Too much time has been wasted. I just want the world to know the true story of Ana Franken.

The Short Stories of Ana Franken, 08150017

A Life of Turmoil

Johanna Sparrow has done it again with her inspiring self-help book for single women looking for Mr. Right while avoiding becoming a one-night stand. Learn why you should have a list of questions for your date. Learn why having sex too soon can cause you heartbreak. Learn what your date really thinks of you. Learn what signals lead to a one-night stand. It’s never good to keep a man around because of sex. The process of getting to know someone should never be rushed. Ladies you are looking for this person to be a major part of your life, so why rush the process? Dressing to get a man’s attention through a more sexual side is one that calls for the question, are you asking for Dick ? Don’t make dating harder than it has to be by asking Dick to give you any attention, since the only thing it's able to offer you, is a one-night stand.

The sophisticated lady's guide to dating in 2015/2016

Don't Ask Dick; How to date the right man without becoming a one-night stand:

Most, if not all, of my friends have heard of the old saying about the elephant in the room or even the pink elephant or white elephant in the room. But, did you know that they are all addressing a problem that no one wants to acknowledge, not even you? In relationships, the elephant in the room seems to be out of control. So, what do you do when the elephant leaves the room and climbs into your bed? I can surely tell you that when I had an elephant in my bed, it was awkward as hell, and my sex life was nonexistent. No matter what size bed you have, you will never have enough room to fit you and your significant other in comfortably. This book will help you to recognize what’s blocking your sex life and affecting your relationship as a whole. Now that you’ve got your eyes on the elephant in your bed, I want you to walk its big ass right out your front door and out of your life forever.

How to Recognize and Stop Problems Affecting Your Relationship So You Can Get Back to Having Sex Again!

The Elephant In The Bed; What's Blocking Your Sex Life?

Father-son relationships are not always perfect, and many sons are not trying to be their father's best friend. As they get older, they find that they just don't like their fathers, and that for a good reason, because fathers tend to be dismissive of anything their sons do, as well as being bullies. Fathers, like mothers, are not perfect beings by any means, and often fall short of their sons' expectations when it comes to their relationship. These war torn relationships between fathers and sons is what I am addressing in "I Wish You Weren't My Son, I Wish You Weren't My Dad - Overcoming A Toxic Relationship." The only way to heal a strained and out of control father-son relationship that is toxic is by getting to the root, or to the heart, of the problem. For dads, it's something about their sons that just rubs them the wrong way, like their attitude. For the sons, they are tired of the fathers' dismissive and bullying ways.

Overcoming a Toxic Relationship

I Wish You Weren't My Son; I Wish You Weren't My Dad

I don’t know how many times I have witnessed many of my friends and family members involved in happy, loving and committed relationships, sad and alone the next day. What could have happened? Who was to blame for the relationship not working out? What’s even more confusing is being introduced to someone new days later. I know you are thinking it’s none of my business why this is happening. Now don’t get me wrong, I understand sometimes things don’t work out for whatever reason, you just have to move on. For many of my family and friends this was happening on a regular basis. I wasn’t sure why this was happening to the people I loved around me, but I was going to find out. What I learned I tell you shocked the pants off of me, my friends and loved ones had “commitment phobia." To make it worse many of them did not believe in going to counseling and sharing their feelings with someone they did not know. I wanted to help them deal with their fears of rejection, commitment, trust issues and many other issues that caused them to pull away from love. Once more I wanted them to see that love was not death, but their way of thinking is what killed their relationships. My intentions are to teach you how to deal with your commitment phobe so you can win at love.

How To Stop Killing Your Relationships Because of Commitment Phobias

Sabotage

Tell me what you’ve gone through and I’m sure I can tell you why you are having certain struggles and pains in your life today. Tell me the worst you’ve had to experience and I will tell you why you’re still not over it. Life tragedies not only leave scars that last a lifetime but a bruised heart in its aftermath. Although many if not all of life’s bruises have healed on the outer surface of your body they are not gone. They have all settled deep within your heart’s core issuing blow after blow leading one to experience loss, heartbreak, grief, humiliation, rejection, tragedy and pain that’s never ending upon a heart that’s badly bruised. Your untimely outburst is a testament to the bruised heart you carry that has yet to heal. Are you tired of hurting and forgetting? Are you ready to get to the bottom of why past pains come back? Bruised Heart is the reason but it does not have to be. True healing takes place from the inside out, starting with one’s heart. I’ve dealt with my share of life bruises an have overcome them all. Now if I can heal my bruised heart, so can you!

How To Stop Hurting To Trust Again

Bruised Hearts

It's a shame to say this but ugly people are everywhere. The worst ones are in relationships. Why is it that the most attractive people fall in love with the most unattractive people on the planet? You've seen it, a handsome looking young man holding hands with a unattractive female or an attractive female in the arms of a very ugly man. That's right I said it, finally I have been able to get this off of my chest. It makes you look wonder if you are single what the heck is wrong with me, as if you can't find someone nice, but you have and their attitude is ugly when they are attractive. Is there something I don't understand in dating ugly people? Is there different types of ugly people? Yes, there are different types of ugly people in the world of dating if you have not noticed. Besides the normal looking and attractive people every single person looks for, there's something ugly about that person even if it's not in their physical appearance. It's never an easy subject to talk about no matter the age. This is why I thought it was time to talk about the ugly world of falling in love with ugly people.

Why Do I Attract and Fall in Love with Ugly People?

Ugly

People will do whatever they can to bully you into doing what they want you to do, including exclude you from others you know, tell your most trusted secret, lie, and even spread rumors from one person to another, all in an effort to hurt you. We are all familiar with the milkman characters from decades back. He came to your door with fresh bottles of cold milk, but that wasn’t all that he carried with him. His day consisted of going from house to house, with a wealth of secrets, rumors, and lies he picked up during his daily rounds. He was just like people you know who go around and talk behind your back, all to make you look bad and feel humiliated, by saying, “The milkman said you did...” You may be asking, “What did I do to deserve this?” The answer is, nothing. You did nothing to deserve this treatment. Some folks are just not happy, so they use a tactic called “relational aggression” to gain control over others. If you are not sure who these folks are around you every day, this book will help you to identify who and where they are in your life, and how to stop them by using positive tactics. Don’t Tell the Milkman If You Don’t Want Him to Tell the World is a book that focuses on rumors, secrets, lies, and gossip spread by people you know, and don’t know, in aggressive and non-aggressive manners. I, just like you, have had my fair share of dealings with the milkman.

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