Marriage Development

Have you ever wondered why your marriage seems to be floundering? The problems may be evident to you, but are they really what you think they are? This book has been written to help you open your eyes to the potential on how to fix a relationship that is on the rocks. There are ways to steer around the rocks and come out as a stronger couple at the end of it. As you listen through this book, you will discover the options available to you.

Do you crave intimacy but feel overwhelmed when someone gets too close? Are you torn between wanting love and protecting your independence? Do you withdraw when emotions rise, leaving you feeling misunderstood or emotionally drained? Or are you in a relationship with someone who struggles to open up, commit, or show affection? If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone—and the good news is, it doesn’t have to be this way. Avoidant attachment is more common than you think, and while it may feel like an unchangeable part of who you are, it doesn’t have to be your destiny.

Therapist Beverly Berg offers powerful tools for the partners of recovering addicts. Based in mindfulness, attachment theory, and neurobiology, this book will help listeners sustain emotional stability in their relationships, increase effective communication, establish boundaries, and take real steps toward reigniting intimacy. With more than 25 years in the field, she has developed a unique set of exercises that address the issues faced by couples in recovery.

Ease that first step into true intimacy: You’ve bought the feathers, the candles, the sex toys. You may have even gone to sex therapy for couples, and learned some communication tools. But if that first step to creating real and lasting change still feels like a mystery, Making Love Real is the book that will help you overcome your blocks and lead you to a lasting marriage and a life of deep sexual intimacy.

Love has the power to wound us . . . and the power to heal us. And modern love is complicated. Which is why the ability to cultivate healthy relationships is the key to joy, peace, and a meaningful life. In Love Every Day, relationship expert and bestselling author Dr. Alexandra Solomon offers 365 daily practices to cultivate a curious and compassionate approach to your relationships with others, as well as your relationship with yourself.

Heal Your Trauma, Heal Your Marriage is a road map for women to conquer the rippling effects of complex trauma on themselves and their marriage. For over 30 years, Dr. Cheri McDonald has helped her clients achieve the life of their dreams and a "happily ever after" marriage.

In the follow-up to the best-selling dating advice volume, The Power of the Pussy, Kara King delves further into the controversial subject of Pussy Power. In this audiobook you'll discover unique and compelling advice specifically designed to conquer a variety of real-life issues that women may face when dealing with men.

In prospective, long-term research with over 700 couples, Gottman has discovered certain factors that distinguish happy, stable couples from both unstable, ultimately divorcing couples and stable but unhappy couples. These findings, which are explained here in understandable, nontechnical language, form the basis of his Sound Marital House theory of marriage, which guides the new therapy. This therapy has two goals: changing the marital friendship and teaching couples to regulate conflict.

This revised and expanded edition of the classic relationship skills book offers couples a comprehensive approach to better communication, greater intimacy, and deeper commitment. The new edition includes way to use acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) principles for better conflict management.

Queenology is a manual for the modern queen. It is for the woman who is ready to fix her crown, take her throne, and expand her empire.

Introducing The Ultimate Relationship and Marriage Book for Couples — a groundbreaking guide to building a relationship where communication flows effortlessly, compromises come naturally, and both partners are committed to growing together. Whether you're newlyweds, long-term partners, or facing relationship hurdles, this book equips you with powerful exercises, relatable examples, and expert insights to help you reconnect, grow, and thrive.

Have a new husband by Friday? Is that even possible? Dr. Kevin Leman says it is. The New York Times best-selling author and self-help guru shows even the most frustrated wife how she can have a new husband by Friday. Leman reminds any wife that if what she's doing to get better behavior out of her husband isn't working now, it never will. So it's time for a change. That means it's time to change her own patterns of behavior.

In this one-of-a-kind guide, dad, doula, and certified lactation counselor Brian Salmon and perinatal mental health and relationship expert Kirsten Brunner offer practical, modern-day survival tips for expectant dads and birth partners. Based on Salmon’s Rocking Dads childbirth course, this book provides everything dads need to know about supporting their partner through labor, birth, breastfeeding, and beyond.

You are being hunted. Like a seasoned angler, our enemy opens his tackle box and selects the lure most likely to attract his intended prey - usually the one you and I are least likely to consider harmful. Each lie we bite on causes us to feel pain, lose or injure relationships, and miss out on the abundant life God wants us to have. Lies Men Believe exposes the lies men most commonly believe and shows you how to combat those lies with the truth.

Committing to a long-term relationship is a big deal - especially if you have doubts. With a focus on common sense over emotion, world-renowned sex and relationship therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer offers straight-up advice on whether you should stick it out or cut your losses and move on.

The simple truth is that PTSD can be extremely debilitating - not just for the person who has experienced trauma firsthand, but for their partners, as well. And while there are many books written for those suffering from PTSD, there are few written for the people who love them. In Loving Someone with PTSD, renowned trauma expert Aphrodite Matsakis presents concrete skills and strategies for the partners of those with PTSD.

After infidelity, relationships can become strained as both partners lose trust and faith in each other. Author Tammy Nelson helps couples regain trust, romance, and intimacy after infidelity by redefining the monogamy contract. The new monogamy contract is an explicit relationship agreement created after the affair that allows each partner to safely share their desires, expectations, and limitations. After an affair, it's impossible to go back to the way the relationship was before, but this book offers the chance for a new beginning.

Are you ready to: Feel closer and more connected to your partner? Stop having the same argument over and over? Be happier and finally make changes that stick? It’s not too late. You can reclaim your relationship and your happiness. You just need to have the right tools to finally make it happen. My goal is, above all, to provide practical, usable tools that work - not unproven ideas or pie-in-the-sky theories that sound good but do little to help you in your day-to-day life.

Susan Forward draws on real-life voices and stories of both women and men struggling to free themselves from the frustrating, hurtful, and infuriating relationships with their toxic in-laws. Dr. Forward offers you highly effective communication and behavioral techniques for getting through to partners who won't or can't stand up to their parents. Next, she lays out accessible and practical ways to reclaim you marriage from your in-laws. She shows you what to say, what to do, and what limits to set. If you follow these strategies, you will find some peace in your relationship with them.

Post “yes dear”, post radical feminism, post #metoo, is a blank canvas for those ready to live and love in a new paradigm of womanhood. But what does that look like? In this highly astute narrative is a new mode of relating to ourselves and our world as women.