The High Cost of High Control

The High Cost of High Control helps you understand the various types and causes of controlling behavior, from passive manipulation to aggressive control. You will learn how to break free from the pain caused by controlling personalities - your own and others' - and develop or restore secure, lasting relationships.

You may not see it happening, but when relationships are reduced to a contest between the powerful and the powerless, no one wins. Manipulation, power plays, and domination destroy the trust and affection we have for each other. But you can escape this losing game by reading and following the rules of healthy relationships. The High Cost of High Control helps you understand the various types and causes of controlling behavior, from passive manipulation to aggressive control. You will learn how to break free from the pain caused by controlling personalities - your own and others' - and develop or restore secure, lasting relationships. Dr. Tim Kimmel provides biblically based insights and stories of real people that will help you enjoy authentic relationships uncompromised by the manipulative power of over-control. The only way to win the power game is not to play at all.

Dr. Tim Kimmel is the Executive Director of Family Matters, a non-profit ministry that equips families to appropriate God's grace in every age and stage of life. He is also the well-known national speaker and best-selling author of books including "Little House on the Freeway", "Grace Based Parenting" and "Why Christian Kids Rebel".