Grief Marriage

A Marriage Made in Heaven is a book about eternal love, devastating loss, and the profound healing that came afterward. It is a book about how trusting in God and having an all-powerful faith helped me and my family conquer overwhelming obstacles resulting from an unspeakable tragedy. A Marriage Made in Heaven is my story, but it involves far more than just me.

Secrets shared can bind hearts, but secrets concealed? That's a tale of its own. The year is 1884. Robert Cooke and his pregnant wife Freya tragically lose their two sons to scarlet fever, sending Freya into self-imposed isolation for the safety of their unborn child. Cut off from each other, their shared grief becomes a silent, destructive foe. A decade later and now a successful businessman, Robert conceives a poignant tribute to his lost sons - a pleasure garden. But in withholding his vision from Freya, he widens the gulf between them.

Planet Claire is the story of the untimely death of the author's wife and a candid account of the following year of madness and grief. With Claire's death, Jeff Porter tries to imagine life without her but struggles with the bewilderment that follows. There was no gradual transition, no chance to say good-bye or resolve unfinished business. The grief is crushing, her death the psychological equivalent of Pearl Harbor. But as Jeff's life unravels, he analyzes his sadness with growing interest.

When NPR's Scott Simon began tweeting from his mother's hospital room in July 2013, he didn't know that his missives would soon spread well beyond his 1.2 million Twitter followers. Squeezing the magnitude of his final days with her into 140-character updates, Simon's evocative and moving meditations spread virally. Over the course of a few days, Simon chronicled his mother's death and reminisced about her life, revealing her humor and strength, and celebrating familial love.

This is for all you women, who have suffered loss, are grieving, and just tired. Believe that there is an opportunity for happiness and an answer for sin. This book shares my troubled relationships, loneliness, and abandonment. It reveals my testimonies and prayers that will help you find your way out.

La autora habla en primera persona sobre asuntos siempre mantenidos en confidencia, como los matrimonios con bajo sexo, también llamados matrimonios asexuados, el pico sexual femenino a los 40, la mujer que se siente desatendida en su relación y está en procura silenciosa de un amante, las violencias más silenciosas en los hogares: la psicológica y la coercitiva, la vida en el extranjero, la sacralización de la familia en algunas culturas y la consecuente presión familiar para retornar y permanecer en un matrimonio sin miramientos en el tipo de convivencia.