Marriage Family Relationships

Best-selling author Dr. John Townsend teaches you that love can actually be learned and gives you the steps and tools to become skilled in love. Using his trademark stories to flesh out the important principles, Dr. Townsend covers receiving love, connecting love, healing love, confronting love, romantic love, and surrendering love. Through his teaching, listeners will discover - and start enjoying - the words, actions, and experiences of authentic love.

Despite more power and choices than ever before, women are still angry; that's not necessarily a bad thing, as anger is what continues to open the door for change. In this collection, 15 women speak boldly and passionately about choices they've made, about sex, children, love, and work, and explore what's working and what is not.

Are you tired of dating men who string you along, disappear, or won't commit? Is He the One? explains why women often fall for the wrong guys and how to quickly recognize who they are. Dating today is anything but easy, especially as a single woman over 40. Wouldn't it be great if you could tell within three dates if a man was going to waste your time or had potential as a romantic partner? Well, now you can! Author and dating coach Ronnie Ann Ryan radically simplifies understanding what men do and say.

Love Like You Mean It gives husbands and wives a biblical understanding of what real love looks like in marriage by unpacking the 10 attributes of genuine love listed in 1 Corinthians 13.

In the past, I would sidestep my own desires, sacrificing my happiness to please and support others. But my horse taught me the importance of self-care and prioritizing my own needs, which not only empowered me but also allowed me to cultivate healthier relationships. I gradually gained the confidence to assert myself and speak up for what I truly wanted, and I no longer found myself stuck in toxic dynamics. If you, like me, have struggled with unhealthy relationships, lack of confidence, and neglecting your own needs, I urge you to consider the transformative impact of a horse.

Strengthen your marriage with empathy, spiritual connection, and resilience—without feeling overwhelmed.

Find the balance between tough love and tender love. In The Two Sides of Love, best-selling authors John Trent and Gary Smalley explain how to find a healthy balance between the protective, consistent, "hard side" of love and the tender, understanding, "soft side" of love. This is the groundbreaking book that introduced the four "animal" personality types and it will show you how to best demonstrate both sides of love in all your relationships-with your spouse, children, and friends. Included in this thoroughly updated edition is a free assessment of your core personality type.

As long as she can remember, Leah has had the mysterious feeling that she's searching for a twin - that she belongs as one of an intimate pair. It begins with friends, dance partners, and her own reflection in the mirror as she studies ballet growing up; continues with physical and emotional attractions to girlfriends in college; and leads her, finally, to Eric, whom she moves across the country for and marries. But her steadfast, monogamous relationship leaves her with questions she can't answer about her sexuality and her identity, so she and her husband decide to try an open marriage.

Most guides on marriage rightly address communication and conflict as key issues, then advise listeners on how to fight fair since conflict is an inevitable reality and cannot be avoided. But Dr. Ron Welch asks the provocative question, is it? Is every marriage doomed to one conflict after another? Shouldn't we expect better than that? In this practical and encouraging audiobook, Welch offers a far more positive approach to marriage, outlining 10 specific choices couples can make to minimize or even avoid conflict and increase joy.

New York Times best-selling relationship expert Maggie Scarf shares in-depth stories of seven remarried couples - revealing the unique challenges they face as they strive to achieve lasting intimacy and familial harmony. Through cautionary tales and stories of hope, Scarf offers guidance for handling everything from children who reject the new family dynamic to the thorny issue of money. Loaded with practical wisdom and searing accounts, The Remarriage Blueprint is a definitive road map to a happy, thriving, integrated household.

Every day, countless men and women go to counselors and ask if their relationship can be saved. Even more men and women turn to their friends and trusted family members, bemoaning that what was once good has now turned bad. There are screaming fights, stony silences, glares across a crowded room and sighs of sadness. Sometimes there is a long conversation that ends in tears, and sometimes there isn't a conversation at all.

Enhance communication with your partner without feeling as you speak two different languages. What if a few simple skills could radically improve your life, marriage, and your relationship? Imagine a life with your partner without conflicts, anxiety, and trust. Communication in Relationship will teach you how to use easy, actionable activities to strengthen your marriage by working together or working through problems separately, from open-ended conversation prompts to fast quizzes.

The start of every new relationship is very exciting. The first touch, the first kiss, and that first intimate look that sweeps you off your feet — those are just the surface emotions. To make your relationship last longer, you need to dig deeper. Once you are committed to your relationship, time starts… to not take each other for granted.

Grace Johnson can’t escape the feeling that her life is on autopilot—until her husband announces he’s done with their marriage. Grace has a choice: wallow in humiliation . . . or reluctantly grant her outlandish mother’s seventieth birthday wish with a road trip Graceland. Buckle up, Elvis. We’re on our way.

Is something missing in your relationship? Do you look longingly at the early days of your marriage, wishing you still had that spark? You wish you could snap your fingers and magically return to the happiness of your honeymoon days. You've hoped, begged, even prayed to God for a return to a brighter, more passionate relationship, but you just don’t know how to get there. With 38 years of experience helping nearly-weds and established couples, Pastor Bill Hutcheson is ready to help you have the happy relationship God intended for your marriage.

In Sins of the Mother, author Michael Ratliff offers a gripping and heart-wrenching account of his tumultuous eleven-year marriage to Erica, a woman whose charm and manipulation masked the darker traits of Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). This powerful memoir uncovers the deep-seated deception, psychological abuse, and emotional turmoil that defined their relationship.

In the spirit of his New York Times best seller Love Poems for Married People and Love Poems for People with Children, as well as his wildly popular New Yorker pieces, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for anxious people.

A Celebration of Sex for Newlyweds answers specific often unasked questions about sexual topics and presents newly married couples with detailed techniques and behavioral skills for learning sexual pleasure and intimate companionship. An excellent tool for premarital counseling and a wonderful gift for the newly married, this book offers invaluable information in a professional yet sensitive style.

It's 1984 - and it's an important time for the children of Ragley-on-the Forest school.... Their school choir is to sing a carol in a church in York, and it's actually going to be on television! Helping to keep his excited children - not to mention their parents - under control during these momentous events taxes Jack and his staff to the limit. And at the same time, Jack has his own problems to deal with....

When Nina Sharma meets Quincy while hitching a ride to a friend’s Fourth of July barbecue, she spots a favorite book, Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, in the back seat of his cramped car, and senses a sadness from him that’s all too familiar to her. She is immediately intrigued—who is this man? In The Way You Make Me Feel, Sharma chronicles her and Quincy’s love story, and in doing so, examines how their Black and Asian relationship becomes the lens through which she moves through and understands the world.