Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away: Real Help for Desperate Hearts in Difficult Marriages
Ebook
Overview
What to do when you feel like giving up
When you said, “I do,” you entered marriage with high hopes, dreaming it would be supremely happy.
You never intended it to be miserable.
Millions of couples are struggling in desperate marriages. But the story doesn’t have to end there. Dr. Gary Chapman writes, “I believe that in every troubled marriage, one or both partners can take positive steps that have the potential for changing the emotional climate in their marriage.”
Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away, the revised and updated edition of the award-winning Desparate Marriages, teaches you how to:
- Recognize and reject the myths that hold you captive
- Better understand your spouse’s behavior
- Take responsibility for your own thoughts, feelings, and actions
- Make choices that can have a lasting, positive impact on you and your spouse
An experienced marriage and family counselor, Gary Chapman speaks to those whose spouse is any of the following:
- Irresponsible
- A workaholic
- Controlling
- Uncommunicative
- Verbally abusive
- Physically abusive
- Sexually abusive
- Unfaithful
- Addicted to alcohol or drugs
- Depressed
Marriage has the same potential to be miserable as it does to be blissful. Read Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away to learn how you can turn things around.
From the Back Cover
Are you miserable in your marriage?
WHAT TO DO IF YOUR SPOUSE IS...
Irresponsible
A workaholic
Depressed
Controlling
Verbally abusive
Physically abusive
Sexually abusive
Uncommunicative
Unfaithful
Addicted to alcohol or drugs
If you are struggling in a painfully difficult marriage, you’re not alone, and the story doesn’t have to end there. In Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away, the revised and updated edition of the award-winning Desperate Marriages, Gary Chapman will teach you how to:
• Recognize and reject the myths that hold you captive
• Better understand your spouse’s behavior
• Take responsibility for your own thoughts, feelings, and actions
• Make choices that can have a lasting, positive impact on
you and your spouse
“I believe that in every troubled marriage, one or both partners can take positive steps that have the potential for changing the emotional climate in their marriage.” –Gary Chapman
Top Highlights
“First, and in my opinion most fundamental, is the need to love and be loved” (source)
“Negative thinking tends to beget negative thinking” (source)
“Destroying the wall requires both individuals to admit that they are imperfect and have failed each other” (source)
“A series of positive actions holds the potential for turning the tide in a troubled marriage” (source)
“You must both learn to give love and give freedom if you expect to receive love and freedom” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away: Real Help for Desperate Hearts in Difficult Marriages
- Author: Chapman, Gary
- Publisher: Northfield Publishing
- Publication Date: 2018
- ISBN: 9780802496423
Dr. Gary Chapman is the author of the best-selling The Five Love Languages (more than 6 million copies sold) and numerous other marriage and family books. He is the director of Marriage and Family Life Consultants, INC., an internationally-known speaker, and the host of A Long Language Minute, a syndicated radio program heard on more than 200 stations across North America. He and his wife, Karolyn, live in North Carolina.