Susan Scott - Fierce Love: Creating a Love That Lasts—-One Conversation at a Time

Susan Scott does a superb job of teaching couples how to create compelling conversations and foster true connection and a fierce love that will withstand the test of time and grow stronger over the years. Every couple should read this book!

Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times #1 bestselling author of Triggers, Mojo, and What Got You Here Wont Get You There

In Fierce Love, Susan Scott creates a brilliant yet simple guide that inspires, and frames the most important conversations necessary to create understanding, empathy, and connection between two people. These are the tools to create deep and enduring relationships that last!

Gregory Dickow, senior pastor of Life Changers International Church

Love is often expressed sentimentally and romantically. In Fierce Love, Susan Scott offers a pungent vision of love as a real conversation between two authentic people with no topic off the table. After identifying the myths of love, she offers a model, and a list of the conversations authentic lovers should have. Bereft of romanticism and filled with directness, this book will help any couple live their relationship in a different way. We recommend it to all couples who want to move from good to great.

Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt, authors of Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples

In Fierce Love, Susan Scott candidly addresses an issue that commonly plagues many of our romantic relationships: lack of deep, vulnerable, and honest conversations. With compelling narrative and actionable steps, Scott helps readers harness the power of meaningful conversations to transform guarded love into fearless love that will unite couples for the long haul.

Jenny Albers, author of Courageously Expecting

Our relationships, our family, can and should be our biggest gift, even though Im often tempted to treat them as my biggest pain in the butt. Susan Scott teaches us how to fight for this lovegently but fiercelyas imperfect but perfectly lovable beings.

Anna Lind Thomas, author of Well Laugh About This Someday

In a time where many people are struggling with their relationships, we need voices that provide us with the courage, clarity, and skill to nurture our relationships and resolve recurring issues. Whether we are married or dating, we all need to have the conversations that may have eluded us. As I often say, in order for us to be great at anything, we need instruction. Susan Scott provides the necessary instruction while serving as a sisterly friend, with a great sense of humor, who helps us connect with our intimate partners at a deep level.

Dondr Whitfield, actor and author of Male vs. Man

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Fierce Love

2022 Susan Scott

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Names: Scott, Susan, 1944- author.

Title: Fierce love : creating a love that lasts-one conversation at a time / Susan Scott, New York Times bestselling author.

Description: Nashville, Tennessee : Nelson Books, 2022. | Summary: New York Times bestselling author Susan Scott guides couples through eight must-have conversations to create a fierce love that stands the test of time and grows stronger over the years-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021037417 (print) | LCCN 2021037418 (ebook) | ISBN 9781400233236 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781400233250 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Couples. | Man-woman relationships. | Love.

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When I pick up a book, I flip to the dedication, which is always to someone else and not to me. Not this book. This ones for you if you love and are not loved, if you are loved and do not love, if you dont love and are not loved (youre breaking my heart), and if you love and are loved, which of course is the ultimate experience we all want to have. I hope this book will help you get there.

WITH YOU KNOW WHAT,

SUSAN SCOTT

SEPTEMBER 2021

It

Is all

Just a love contest

And I never

Lose.

Now you have another good reason

To spend more time

With

Me.

HAFIZ

Contents

Love doesnt make itself, you know. We make it. Or fail to make it. And we unmake it as well. Its not like God is up there