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Starting with Me (Ed.3)

Knowing Myself Before Finding a Partner

Too often, individuals enter relationships without the inner resources needed for lasting harmony. This insightful guide shifts the focus inward, empowering readers to prepare themselves for healthy, enduring partnerships before seeking a mate. Drawing on Bahá’í principles, research-backed advice and candid reflections from those who’ve walked the path, it offers transformative questions and exercises designed to build self-awareness, resilience and a service-oriented outlook.

Through practical strategies, readers learn to extract wisdom from past experiences, assess their own character and establish realistic expectations for a partner. The book addresses common fears and unhelpful patterns, replacing them with proactive habits—such as forming supportive friendships and clarifying relationship goals. With guidance on involving friends, family and community groups, it fosters an environment of collective encouragement. Whether you’re single, newly committed or seeking renewal, this companion equips you to become a true success factor in any relationship or marriage—helping you cultivate confidence, clarity and...Show More

Too often, individuals enter relationships without the inner resources needed for lasting harmony. This insightful guide shifts the focus inward, empowering readers to prepare themselves for healthy, enduring partnerships before seeking a mate. Drawing on Bahá’í principles, research-backed advice and candid reflections from those who’ve walked the path, it offers transformative questions and exercises designed to build self-awareness, resilience and a service-oriented outlook.

Through practical strategies, readers learn to extract wisdom from past experiences, assess their own character and establish realistic expectations for a partner. The book addresses common fears and unhelpful patterns, replacing them with proactive habits—such as forming supportive friendships and clarifying relationship goals. With guidance on involving friends, family and community groups, it fosters an environment of collective encouragement. Whether you’re single, newly committed or seeking renewal, this companion equips you to become a true success factor in any relationship or marriage—helping you cultivate confidence, clarity and lasting joy.

  • Contributors:
    Susanne Alexander (Author) | 
    Johanna Merritt Wu  (Author) | 
    Jeremy Lambshead (Author)
  • Format: Softcover book | 184 pages
  • Dimensions: 216 x 279 x 10 mm 
  • Publisher: Marriage Transformation LLC, 2024
  • ISBN: 9781940062334
  • SKU: ALEXA_START3@p
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  • Contributors:
    Susanne Alexander (Author) | 
    Johanna Merritt Wu  (Author) | 
    Jeremy Lambshead (Author)
  • Format: Softcover book | 184 pages
  • Dimensions: 216 x 279 x 10 mm 
  • Publisher: Marriage Transformation LLC, 2024
  • ISBN: 9781940062334
  • SKU: ALEXA_START3@p

About Susanne Alexander (author)

Susanne M. Alexander is a certified pre-marriage and marriage educator, coach, and character specialist. She is the author or coauthor of over twenty books on relationships and marriage, many of them including Baha’i quotations. Susanne is passionate about helping individuals and couples make good relationship and marriage choices through knowledge and skill-building. She meets with clients globally for marriage preparation and strengthening. She writes articles for both bahaiteachings.org and bahaiblog.net.

Susanne has been single, dating, engaged, married, divorced, and widowed. She is a child, stepchild, parent, stepparent, and grandparent. All of this has given Susanne a diversity of experiences to share! She is originally from Canada and now lives with her husband in the United States.

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