I Don't Get You

Relationships can be confusing, and communication is a huge part of that confusion. I Don’t Get You aims to be a practical, accessible resource that helps readers navigate opposite-sex communication with intentionality.

This booklet explores how God designed our hearts and the variations between men and women. Men and women relate, attach, and express themselves differently. Even what we think and feel during a shared conversation may be misunderstood.

The 5 Categories of Conversation introduced in this booklet give practical and easy-to-apply guidelines for interaction. The material guides us to fulfilling relationships that respect emotional boundaries and promote healthy interactions. I Don’t Get You equips men to protect their own hearts and the hearts of women around them. It also reveals how we can intentionally pursue the heart of one special person. Women will learn to recognize the invisible emotional ties that easily form and to guard their hearts from uncommitted emotional intimacy.

Table of Contents
Part I    The Heart of Healthy Conversations
Part II How to Have Healthy Conversations
Part III Dependency
Part IV   Emotional Purity and Dating
Part V    Emotional Purity and Marriage
Part VI   Pursuing Emotional Purity Together

Endorsements

"I Don’t Get You is a beautiful, insightful read. Sherry provides not only relatable and relevant examples but also intriguing in-sights that opened my eyes to the concept of maintaining healthy relationships with the opposite sex. Whether you are single, dating, married, or wanting to live out purity more intentionally inyour everyday life, I Don’t Get You will give you direction and guidance for pursuing Christlike holiness in your relationships with others."

---JEREMY STIMACK, Student at University of Minnesota—Twin Cities

"I plan to share this book with the many college women I mentor and teach. The concept of emotional purity often feels too hard to explain, but Sherry’s clear categories of conversation and her description of commitment levels are so helpful. This book has much to apply to my own life as a young married believer and will be important for any and all of my students who are seeking to honor God with their relationships."

---MOLLY JENKINS, Mission staff member with The Navigators (Collegiate)at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee

"This booklet does a great job of explaining what emotional purity is and how to live it out. I was able to see places I have sometimes unintentionally defrauded my girl friends or myself. And the “yellow flags”—wow! I had been interested in a guy, and those questions made me realize so quickly that we weren’t at that level of intimacy. Overall, I Don’t Get You is a refreshing reminder."

---ALY O’CONNOR, Navigators Associate Staff at University of Wisconsin—Whitewater