Marriage Development

After trying for years to emulate her boomer parents’ 40-year and still-going-strong marriage, Sophie realized that maybe the love she was looking for was down a road less traveled. In this bold, graphic memoir, she explores her sexuality, her values, and the versions of love our society accepts and practices.

We learn countless ideas from our families about money. Many of them are caught and not taught. The Healthy Love & Money Way shows how our attitudes about ourselves, relationships, and money evolve from our past experiences and the attachment styles we developed as children. Using the latest in love and brain science, as well as anecdotes from his own evolution from an insecure attachment style to a secure one, Ed Coambs shows how healthy love and money can be achieved no matter your starting point.

This is the book that started the revolution in biblically-based Christian marriage enrichment programs. Don and Sally Meredith’s groundbreaking Two Becoming One has transformed and strengthened hundreds of thousands of marriages over the past three decades. Couples will learn: How to eliminate sources of conflict, how to put Christ at the center of their marriage, the divine purpose of marriage, God’s faith-based principles for oneness, and much more!

Combining the rigor that has established them as leaders in their respective fields along with a dose of good-natured humor, the Tellers ask listeners to take a fresh look at seven common sacred cows: the Holy Cow, the Expert Cow, the Selfish Cow, the Defective Cow, the Innocent Victim Cow, the One True Cow, and the Other Cow. This is not an audiobook that is "for" marriage or "for" divorce, but "for" the freedom to decide how to live most honestly and happily either as part of a couple or a single person.

Most struggling couples let issues like miscommunication, distrust, neglect, and faded romance sit and fester for years before seeking help in their relationships. This book will help you and your spouse find hope amid your challenges and discover a greater understanding of your marriage and the appropriate mindset you need to start addressing difficult issues; learning the skills to remind yourself of what to be grateful for; how to avoid the most common mistakes that 99 percent of marriages fall into; and more.

No matter how hard we try, many of us struggle to make love work with our partners. The problem, as clinical psychologist Dr. Ron Frederick explains, is that our brains are running on outdated software. Without us knowing it, our early relationship programming causes us to fear being more emotionally present and authentic with our partners - precisely what’s needed to build loving connections. But we don’t have to remain prisoners to our past.

Do you need help restoring the pleasure to your marriage? Whether you’ve been married a day, a decade, or half a century, if your sexual relationship is marred by pain, tension, or disappointment—you are not alone. Thousands of couples struggle with sexual problems that keep their marriages...

Married Christians, and those preparing for marriage, know that they're sinners—and that their sin threatens God's great purposes for their union, including mutual support, companionship, and intimacy. But how often do believers recognize that they are also saints, equipped through God's power to create a healthy, loving marriage? In Gospel-Shaped Marriage, Chad and Emily Van Dixhoorn encourage couples with how Christ calls and enables them to love their spouse.

Picture yourself as a young mother with a three-year-old daughter and a newborn at the playground. In the moment you’ve turned to the diaper bag, your toddler disappears—at first, all you can feel is terror, and then instinctively you look up—and there she is at the top of the slide, looking so proud of herself. At this moment, you might find yourself deluged with conflicting feelings, including anger and relief and resentment and gratitude and fear and even flashes of hate—you told her to wait for you before running off.

Have you ever spent time overanalyzing a certain social or romantic situation longer than you should have and eventually questioned your sanity, or is this the norm for you? In his first book, A Crazy Little Thing Called Love, author Mike Zacchio combines his most meaningful work on the topics of love, sex, dating, and relationships, as told through the male perspective, along with three never-before-seen articles. Zacchio chronicles what it's like trying to date as a man in a world filled with dating apps, social media, "thirst", hook-up culture, and emotional walls.

Has your partner become an angry, selfish, unhappy, or avoidant person? Does he refuse to go to counseling or work on your relationship? Would you like a way to make things better without having to end your relationship or threaten to? In What To Do When He Won’t Change, you will learn the four major motivations that drive men’s behavior in relationships.

Do You Want to Know How to REALLY GET YOUR MAN TO MARRY YOU? It’s the situation every woman dreads: You know this is the guy you want to spend the rest of your life with, so why isn’t he getting down on one knee? You’re happy and strong, you’ve been together a while, and you’re practically living in each other’s pockets. I have GOOD NEWS: There is a better way to make him marry you than to nag him into a commitment. I have a foolproof method to get a ring on your finger, and it works in 99 out of every 100 cases.

In order to attract and keep the woman of your dreams, you must become the kind of man that she simply cannot live without. This is the only task that a man must not fail at when it comes to dating and relationships with women. This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to become truly irresistible to women.

Truly loving another imperfect person is not merely a romantic feeling, but a daily decision. But what are the keys to consistently giving and receiving love? How are love and romance best experienced and expressed in the midst of life’s everchanging pressures and emotions? The Love Dare Day by Day is a one-year devotional designed to challenge husbands and wives to understand and practice unconditional love.

During times of betrayal, when we most need support, sometimes the ones we would turn to first are the betrayers. Other times, we’re saddled with shame and fear. But it’s during these times that we need to learn to trust again. This book offers support, comfort, and community to those struggling with feelings associated with betrayal and guides them to healing from painful experiences of it. Listeners will learn about and move through five stages from betrayal to breakthrough and will be lovingly guided with tools and strategies along the way.

La "six chapeaux de la réflexion" méthode est la plus fameuse et efficace pour améliorer votre créativité! Les méthodes de pensée traditionnelles sont généralement tributaires de l'argumentation et de la critique, ce qui les rend conflictuelles et négatives. Pour dépasser ces limitations, Edward de Bono a développé la "pensée parallèle" qui permet d'organiser la réflexion selon six points de vue - ou modes de pensée - symbolisés par des chapeaux de couleurs différentes.

Marriage is all about sharing: sharing space, sharing joys and sorrows, sharing hopes and dreams. Yet we often hold back a part of ourselves because we fear that being wholly transparent - about our past, our desires, our failures, our faults - will bring judgment, rejection, or even just unwanted friction to our relationship. We are afraid to be fully known. As a result, we never experience being fully loved. In this paradigm-shifting book, Ryan and Selena Frederick show you how to develop a see-through marriage, one that is marked by full transparency and confident vulnerability.

In "The King Blueprint," you will discover time-tested principles, wisdom, and actionable advice that will empower you to become a strong, compassionate, and honorable leader. Learn how to build a loving and harmonious relationship with your Queen, strengthen your emotional intelligence, and navigate life's challenges with resilience.

From these disparate phenomena: Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse who as president of a Midwestern college observed the trials of this generation up close, sees an existential threat to the American way of life. In The Vanishing American Adult, Sasse diagnoses the causes of a generation that can't grow up and offers a path for raising children to become active and engaged citizens. He identifies core formative experiences that all young people should pursue.

Most struggling couples let issues like miscommunication, distrust, neglect, and faded romance sit and fester for years before seeking help in their relationships. In many cases, splitting up can be the result of leaving these problems unattended for too long, when they could have been resolved at home with self-counselling. Through the tips outlined in Self-Counsel Your Struggling Marriage, you and your spouse will discover a greater understanding of your marriage and the appropriate mindset you need to start addressing difficult issues and more.