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FOREWORD

As a child, I always dreamed about growing up and having a family. When I started dating, I would tell
my date, I wanted a family, a business, and a nurturing home environment. In that order. I never thought
about why having a loving, nurturing, healthy family dynamic was a priority, until I began to see the
collateral damage that took place in my life because I was in a dysfunctional one. Writing this book has
emphasized the importance of illuminating to the world the pain and danger of taking dysfunction too
lightly.
There is nothing you will read in this book that comes from a textbook. It comes from the experiences
I’ve had and events that occurred over time.

It amazes me that as children, we are not taught the fundamentals of developing healthy relationships. It
also amazes me that high schools and colleges don’t make relationship building and management
courses mandatory. Meanwhile, young adults go out into the world as versed in this area as they were
when they were infants. Yet, being able to build healthy relationships is essential to the quality of
relationships and long-term success of anyone entering adulthood.

I hope to provide young and older adults with the principles that will allow them to develop and sustain
quality relationships that last, by making good, sound relationship decisions, especially in toxic
situations.

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