Marriage Family Relationships

In her first book, The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April Ryan examined race in America through her experience as a White House reporter. In this book, she shifts the conversation from the White House to every home in America. At Mama's Knee looks at race and race relations through the lessons that mothers transmit to their children.

When his mother leaves with the father of his worst enemy at school, nine-year-old Jeremy seeks to make sense of her abandonment. He throws himself into recreating the Book of Birds, a collection of drawings that his mother took with her on the day she left. While his father fights his own depression, and his sister distances herself from their lives, Jeremy turns wholeheartedly to nature, and finds solace in the quiet comfort of drawing.

Seth Baumgartner just had the worst day of his life. His girlfriend dumped him (at Applebee’s), he spied his father on a date with a woman who is not his mother (also at Applebee’s!), and he lost his fourth job of the year. It’s like every relationship he cares about is imploding, and he can’t figure out what’s going on. To find answers, Seth decides to start an anonymous podcast called The Love Manifesto.

In addition to providing very realistic and down-to-earth answers to the challenges most married couples face, The Marriage Riddle: Presents several insights and practices, such as the four steps to communicate without arguing, how to stop controlling, how to see with the heart, and the art of letting, listening, and understanding to name a few, describes how to navigate the social and emotional dynamics of marital conflict without allowing our emotions to take the driver's seat, and much more.

Jim and Nancy Landrum saved their own marriage, have taught over 1000 couples how to have great marriages, and now they reveal how to solve the puzzle of your own SoulMate marriage.

Want to make a difference? Make it your purpose to create a marriage that is the most secure place on the planet! In this audiobook you will find real life ways to have the marriage you had hoped to have when you were at the alter. A fun to listen audiobook that will leave you on the edge of your seat wanting more for your marriage with the tools in hand to make it happen.

Familielivet! Vi kaster os ud i det med krum hals, stor lyst og en masse håb og drømme om, at netop vores familie vil blive fyldt med kærlighed, nærvær, trivsel og udvikling. For mange af os udvikler familielivet, forældreskabet eller børnene sig desværre langt fra, som vi havde drømt om og glædet os til. I stedet for at skabe en tryg og livfuld familie løber alt for mange af os ind i afmagt og skænderier med hinanden i hverdagen, og børn der ikke trives, uden at vi rigtig ved, hvad vi skal stille op, og hvordan vi kommer videre.

Two families assemble for a wedding at a family mansion on the beach in East Hampton. But as the festivities are readied, the father of the bride suffers a massive stroke from alcohol withdrawal and lies in a coma in the hospital. So begins Jeanne McCulloch’s vivid memoir of her wedding weekend in 1983 and its aftereffects on her family and the family of the groom. As McCulloch reveals, the repercussions from that weekend will ripple throughout her own family and that of her in-law as they grapple with questions of loyalty, tradition, marital honor, hope, and loss.

Too many people around the world suffer from heartbreaks, physical and emotional pain, confusion and disappointment, or untimely death in some cases. The misuse of the marriage institution has brought misery instead of unconditional love, security, pleasure, and fulfillment intended in the divine design. Is it possible for spouses to experience marital bliss and literally live happily ever after in today’s world? Marriage: As God Intended proclaims God’s desire to bring peace in the troubled waters of marriage in our day.

Life lessons from New York Times best-selling author and Today show personality Al Roker and his wife, globetrotting ABC news journalist Deborah Roberts. Al Roker and Deborah Roberts have 16 Emmy Awards between them. They have covered everything from the Olympics and the Gulf War to natural disasters and the AIDS crisis in Africa. Now these two married journalists and parents have collaborated on the most personal and important “story” of their lives.

Anxiety is a normal human condition. For most people, anxiety is temporary and manageable. However, for some people, anxiety can become acute and/or pervasive. The cause of this anxiety can come from a variety of sources.

Richard Hoffman sometimes felt as though he had two fathers: the real one who raised him and an imaginary version, one he talked to on the phone, and one he talked to in his head. Although Hoffman was always close to the man, his father remained a mystery, shrouded in a perplexing mix of tenderness and rage. When his father receives a terminal cancer diagnosis, Hoffman confronts the depths and limitations of their lifelong struggle to know each other.

With The Interruption of Everything, her sixth novel, Terry McMillan takes on the fault lines of mid-life and family life, reminds us once again of the redeeming power of friendship, and turns her eye toward the dilemma of how a woman starts to put her own needs higher on the to-do list while not shortchanging everyone else.

Lasting Marriage is an encouraging and insightful book that will help your marriage grow and strengthen in love and service to each other. You will learn how your marriage can become one of those success stories you hear about. You will be more in love with your spouse at your 50th wedding anniversary than on your wedding day. By knowing and applying God's meaning and purpose of marriage into your relationship, you will have a lasting marriage.

By the end of World War I, the skyrocketing divorce rate in the United States had generated a deep-seated anxiety about marriage. This fear drove middle-class couples to seek advice, both professional and popular, in order to strengthen their relationships. In Making Marriage Work, historian Kristin Celello offers an insightful and wide-ranging account of marriage and divorce in America in the 20th century, focusing on the development of the idea of marriage as "work."

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Problemele care pot apărea în cadrul vieții sexuale a unui cuplu sunt diverse, de la dispariția dorinței, în urma nașterii unui copil, până la rutină, plictiseală și infidelitate. Autoarea, terapeut cu o vastă experiență în psihologia cuplurilor, ne atrage atenția că dragostea sigură și confortabilă poate intra în conflict cu pasiunea și că viața sexuală este mult mai complexă decât credem. Cartea de față ne arată cum să împăcăm domesticul cu dorința sexuală și cum să permitem pasiunii să ne intre în casă.

With more than four million copies sold in the series, Prayers That Avail Much for Mothers is full of the classic scriptural prayers that fans love! This beautiful prayer audiobook, designed just with mothers in mind, is an indispensable guide to praying effectively according to God's will - and seeing amazing results! These powerful, scriptural prayers will help moms discover God's best for them, their family, and their community in everyday life, in all kinds of circumstances - especially when they don t know what to pray!

High-school junior Jordan MacKenzie’s life was pretty typical: fractured family, new boyfriends, dead-end job. She’d been living with her father (the predictable optometrist) since her mother (the hippie holdover) had become too embarrassing to be around. Jordan felt that she finally had as normal a life as she could. Then came Gayle D’Angelo. Jordan knew her father was dating Gayle and that Gayle was married.

Enter the Ring takes a fresh, powerful, vulnerable approach to marriage by framing it as the fight that it is. The world uses different assaults and tactics to distract us, tempting us to walk away, in order to destroy our marriages. But there is hope: The constant forgiveness, grace, and intervention of God can preserve and protect us from not only the world but also ourselves. D. A. and Elicia Horton explore the tension of two people becoming one and how spouses often fight over which "one of us" they become.

A look at how commercialization has transformed youth sports from fun into a heavily commercialized and profitable venture. Examining the youth sports economy from many sides - the major corporations, the small entrepreneurs, the coaches, the parents, and, of course, the kids - Hyman probes the reasons for rapid changes in what gets bought and sold in this lucrative marketplace. He reveals the effects on kids and profiles the individuals and communities bucking this destructive trend of commercialization.