Foolproofing Your Life: Wisdom for Untangling Your Most Difficult Relationships

I was at the point with my previous husband that I tried to kill myself. Didn't work. The next month I heard Jan speak on this topic and immediately got this book. I realized that I had been living with a fool all along, and that I had let him change me. Many people don't believe me when I say this, but after this book and much MUCH prayer, God let me leave my husband. I realized that what I was going through was abuse and God wanted me out of that situation. I am so glad that Jan wrote this book. Without it, I might have tried suicide again. With it, and God, I am healthy now with a new, wonderful, Christ-centered husband and 2 lovely children. Thank you Jan.

If you have a difficult relationship, and don't know how to say "no", this book can help. I struggled with a bad relationship with my father, who was demeaning and abusive when I was a child. This book really helped me to deal with those issues and set boundaries, so that we can have a better relationship today.

I absolutely adored this book. It came at a time in my life where I was letting my "fool" control me and really change my personality. This book showed me that I was not going crazy, like I thought that I was, and that there is a way to deal with the "foolish" people in my life in a biblical manner. I felt so much better after reading this...I reccommend it to ANYONE who has a troublesome person in their life...

In January I was in a lot of pain because of the inner struggle that my husband was going through and how it was effecting our relationship. Through a long chain of God-handed events, I attended a Moody Bible Seminar where Jan Silvious was the featured speaker. I couldn't believe that she was speaking directly to my problem. I got both her book and the tape and listened again to the wonderful way that she presented how to live with a "foolish" person. Her message is that there was a way to separate from the conflict without separating from the person, especially when he was otherwise so good. Through her words, I found a way to keep my husband's painful words in context, which enabled me to keep him in my heart and my life. Unfortunately, he died in April of a sudden heart attack, and now I can only be eternally grateful that I was able to share much happiness in those last few precious months with him, and not forever regret that I let words spoken from internal pain rob us of the short time we shared. He was only "foolish", and now, he sees clearly. I have given all 5 copies of the book that I got to friends who are also looking for some alternative ways to understand and deal with the "fools" in their lives and I am at this site again to order more copies. This book has been a great blessing in my life, and I hope that it will bless many more relationships with alternatives to leaving.

Everyone has at least one person with whom it is difficult to maintain a relationship. When you've used up all the solutions you can think of and feel at your wit's end, Foolproofing Your Life can show you the better way to deal with your problem person. Whether you are in a close relationship, like marriage, or in a little more distant one, like a business associate, this book's suggestions offer real ways to cope and survive unscarred. This is a book that could help anyone who truly wants to find the right way to end the heartbreak caused by tempermental, angry people we find in our everyday world. A MUST FOR EVERY BOOKSHELF!