Growing Together. Andrew Body

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      Church House Publishing

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      ISBN 978 0 7151 4144 1

      Published 2005 by

      Church House Publishing.

      Second edition 2007

      Copyright © Andrew Body 2005, 2007

      Illustrations © Paul Airy 2005

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or stored or transmitted by any means or in any form, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system without written permission which should be sought from the Copyright Administrator, Church House Publishing, Church House, Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3AZ.

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      Printed in England by Cromwell Press Ltd,

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      Contents

       Acknowledgements

       How to use this book

       Affection, lust and love – an introductory chapter

       Children

       Commitment

       Communication

       Companionship

       Conflict

       Dreams and expectations

       Faith

       Families

       Money

       Roles

       Sex

       Starting again

       Ingredients of the wedding cake

       Resources

       Notes

      Acknowledgements

      Extracts from The Works: Selected Poems by Pam Ayres reproduced with the permission of BBC Worldwide Limited. Copyright © Pam Ayres 1992.

      Extract from the Collected Poems of T. S. Eliot reproduced with the permission of Faber and Faber.

      Extract from Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer reproduced with the permission of Methuen Publishing Ltd.

      Extracts from Common Worship: Pastoral Services reproduced with the permission of the Archbishops’ Council.

      Extract from Poems by Steve Turner copyright © 2002 Steve Turner. Used by permission of Lion Hudson plc.

      How to use this book

       Don’t read it from cover to cover

      The King’s advice to Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland is the usual way to read books:

       Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

      However, this book is different. It would be good to begin at the beginning, with the introductory chapter ‘Affection, lust and love’, and it would be good to end with the final chapter, called ‘Ingredients of the wedding cake’, which is different because it is a practical guide to ways in which you can plan your wedding service. But what you do in the middle is entirely up to you. The chapters are arranged alphabetically, and not in any order of importance. You can read them in any order you prefer.

       Read it one chapter at a time

      This book takes a dozen topics and approaches them in three ways:

      

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