Marriage Development

From the creators of the best-selling Life Recovery series, Take Your Life Back is a groundbreaking look at how to overcome unhealthy relationships and love others well. Counselors Stephen Arterburn and David Stoop offer personal examples, clinical insight, and scriptural truth to help you navigate your toughest relationships.

Learn how to overcome relationship anxiety and how to attain a relationship that is secure, calm, and happy. In this best-selling guide, renowned author and speaker Michelle Gates hands you the step-by-step blueprint to quickly eradicating relationship anxiety and insecurity. In Overcome Relationship Anxiety, you're going to discover: The essential step-by-step blueprint for romantic relationships, the characteristics of secure, lasting, attachment bonding, and how to quickly eradicate insecure and damaging attachment styles.

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.

Ever feel like you're walking on eggshells in your relationship, feeling worried your partner might lose interest or even leave you? If constantly waiting for your love interest to text you or feeling uneasy when your partner's not around sounds familiar, you might be dealing with anxious attachment. And if your partner leans towards avoidant attachment, brace yourself – these triggers can become overwhelming. But fear not; understanding these dynamics is the first step to finding peace and connection in your relationship.

From a beloved couples therapist, a research-backed and solutions-focused guide to help listeners work with the primary problem facing relationships today—stress! With warmth and humor, Elizabeth Earnshaw helps listeners identify why and how they’re stressed and learn strategies to find more calm and deepen connection, even amidst challenges.

Life is about finding things - finding yourself, finding love, finding good friends, finding your happiness after losing someone you loved, and finding peace in the midst of chaos. This book takes you through the stages of falling in love, getting heartbroken, getting over your heartbreak, appreciating friends & family, and the journey to becoming who you really are.

Are you ready to have kids? More and more gay men are turning to adoption and surrogacy to start their own families. An estimated two million American LBGTQ people would like to adopt and an estimated 65,000 adopted children are living with a gay parent. Unlike other parenting books that have whole chapters focusing on things specifically related to mothers (such as how to get the perfect latch when breastfeeding), this parenting book replaces those sections with things relevant to gay dads.

In Millennial Love, journalist Olivia Petter explores the questions, quirks and anxieties that consume the contemporary dating landscape. Olivia scrutinises the myths surrounding modern romance and asks why, despite having endless technology designed to aid communication, it’s harder to meet someone now than ever before.

Yes, it truly takes only one partner to transform a relationship! What's more, you do not need your partner to do the work with you or you to get the results you want. This is unlike any other "relationship book" you have ever experienced! Empower yourself with the tools and strategies that really work to create the change you deserve in your relationship!

Creating a happy, lifelong marriage is about much more than physical compatibility. It's about a lifestyle of 24-7 intimacy that bonds couples in a mutually satisfying relationship. In The Intimate Connection, best-selling marriage expert Dr. Kevin Leman explores key secrets to the love life couples crave.

Your relationship isn't a rom-com, and "happily ever after" isn't an emotion; it's a choice. In a world full of fleeting feelings, why do we keep chasing the myth that happiness is the ultimate goal? Drawing on a career spent building essential connections in the military, the author cuts through the fluff to address the real issues in our relationships. In this book, you will: Move past empty platitudes and get an honest look at love and commitment. Discover the five fundamental elements at play in every relationship.

In Funny Little Human, Fiona Lukeis takes you on a life-changing journey to the heart of what it means to be human. Grounded in simple yet profound truths, Fiona shows you how to break free from the mental habits that keep you stuck and find a clearer, calmer, and more peaceful way to live.

An unconventional way to fix your spouse to discover the love and intimacy you deserve. Learn about a true and gripping story of a young couple who fell in love, got married, and then survived betrayal, lies, and deceit. They both tried to fix the other with their own tools to no avail. Finally, they discovered powerful tools that not only build relationships but also revive the most hopeless ones. Their final chapters reflect romance that even romance novels can't replicate.

In colorful and moving details, this audiobook explores how polyamorous relationships come to be, how they grow and change, how they manage the ins and outs of daily family life, and how they cope with the challenges they face both within their families and from society. Using polyamorists own words, Dr. Elisabeth Sheff examines polyamorous households and reveals their advantages, disadvantages, and the daily lives of those living in them.

Companionship is the obvious, natural motivation for marriage. However, if we view marriage as an eternal bond between husband and wife our attitude will be very different than if we view marriage as a temporary relationship. A brick house requires completely different design, construction and maintenance than a tent. If we are wise, we will consider the past, the future and the present so that our marriages will be lasting and successful. The immediate benefits of companionship are not the only factors that we need to consider.

Couples often wonder how they can improve their marriages and may invest considerable time and effort in classes, counseling, and “encounter” weekends to find the answers. More often, though, they do nothing. They settle into a daily routine that is busy and demanding with little time to think about, let alone implement, improvements to their marriage. Couples report, “We simply grew apart,” or “We no longer enjoy the same things,” or “We just did not have time for each other.” They drift through their busy lives, putting marriage on the back burner.

If you’re navigating the confusing and often painful world of marriage with a high-functioning autistic partner, you are not alone. The You’re Not Crazy! He’s Autistic Guide and Journal for Women (2 in 1) is here to offer understanding and support, all in one place.

Get ready to discover the key to a successful and fulfilling marriage with "101 Questions to Ask Before You Get Engaged." This ultimate guide for couples contemplating a lifelong commitment goes beyond the surface of picking out rings and planning weddings. It's about building a solid foundation for your future together, and this book will help you do just that.

We all need healthy, secure relationships in order to thrive—but they can be hard to build and maintain. Where do you start? According to marriage and family therapist Michelle Becker, the answer is with yourself. By learning to practice self-compassion, you are better able to respond to your partner with love and acceptance—even when they inevitably cannot meet your every need. This caring and insightful guide shows you how to stop defaulting to feelings of annoyance, disappointment, or detachment.

At some point in nearly every person's life, they experience a loss of desire. Sometimes there's a catalyzing event—stress at work, a fight with your partner, or sexual harassment—often, the problem is internal as a person loses touch with themself and what they want. Dr. Kate Balestrieri, licensed sex therapist, founder of Modern Intimacy, and host of Get Naked with Dr. Kate, is here to help. In this book, Dr. Kate identifies the twenty most common reasons people show up in her therapy room, asking What Happened to My Sex Life?