Marriage Family Relationships

After the death of his brother and the sudden end of his marriage, and after his ex-wife moved to another state leaving him alone with their two young children, Dan Glick embarked on single fatherhood in an unusual way: he took his kids on a journey around the world. The idea was to go see some of the world's rare life forms before they disappeared from the planet, and to do it before the kids themselves would grow up and chart their own paths.

Daddy's girl Rebecca Muir has long known exactly what she wants to do after high school: attend the prestigious architecture program at Columbia University, 3,000 miles away from her home. But as the end of school nears, things are no longer so clear cut - she's just fallen in love with the perfect guy, Jackson; her dad has gotten a new job in New York, so her whole family is following her to the East Coast; and she's having trouble ignoring her premonition that something terrible is coming. And it soon becomes clear why: Shortly after the move, her father reveals that he's leaving them....

Every Kind of Wanting explores the complex intersection of three unique families. Miguel Guerra, who grew up in poverty in Venezuela before his family's relocation to Chicago, could not be more different from his partner Chad Merry, a happy-go-lucky real estate mogul from Chicago's wealthy North Shore. When Chad's sister, Gretchen - struggling with the deterioration of her marriage - offers the couple her eggs, they begin scrambling for a surrogate to carry the child, finally settling on Miguel's old friend Emily, happily married to an eccentric Irish playwright.

Thousands of women have stepped inside Becker’s Bridal in Fowler, Michigan, to try on their dream dresses in the Magic Room, a special space with soft lighting, a circular pedestal, and mirrors that carry a bride’s reflections into infinity. The women bring with them their most precious expectations about romance, love, fidelity, permanence, and tradition. Each bride who passes through has a story to tell - one that carried her there, to that dress, that room, that moment.

Please Don’t Say You Need Me . . . is a common plea voiced by people trapped in unhealthy, codependent relationships. Confused by their conflicting emotions, they feel trapped between wanting to love and care for someone else and yet, at the same time, needing to escape from that person’s intense and suffocating demands for self-esteem. Jan Silvious offers practical, biblical answers for those dealing with codependency—actually, people-dependency—that can exist between mates, siblings, parents and children, and friends.

God’s word promises that "His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence" (2 Peter 1:3). For Christian singles, this means God has provided everything we need to successfully and righteously navigate through the challenges and temptations that come with being single in a fallen world. As a Christian single, you are empowered by the Holy Spirit to succeed. You reign!

No matter what you might have heard, God didn’t mandate a divine way to date. What he did do, in the Bible, is lay out principles for wise and healthy relational living among believers. His boundaries for us are wise and good. But exactly how you apply God’s principles to your dating life is up to you to figure out. All you need is guidance, not micromanagement.

Das Beziehungsglück liegt in Frauenhand. Denn die Damen der Schöpfung sind es, die Liebesbeziehungen bewusst gestalten wollen. Was wäre also, wenn Frauen um das Geheimnis dauerhaft harmonischer Partnerschaften wüssten? Wenn sie das Naturgesetz glücklicher Paarbeziehungen kennen und damit nicht länger Opfer der Unterschiede zwischen Mann und Frau sein würden? Dann wäre alles möglich, dann könnten sie aktiven Einfluss auf ihre Persönlichkeit, ihre Beziehungen und damit auf ihr gesamtes Lebensglück nehmen!

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.

Join Amanda on her journey to find contentment. She takes you through her personal testimony and reveals the steps God taught her that freed her from insecurity, strife, distrust, resentment, and chaos in her marriage. She shares with you how to enjoy your family while waiting on God to restore, transform, and perfect you, your spouse, and your children. This book is a guide to a total FAMILY makeover. As a mom of four children ages one to ten, Amanda understands the struggles of raising a family today.

This is an autobiography about a man from New Jersey born in 1947. Following his graduation from high school in 1965, he enlisted in the Marines and went to Vietnam. Home and honorably discharged before turning 21, he meandered for a few years in the time of the anti-war movement and psychedelic drugs that were the late '60s and early '70s. He found his feet in aviation with his first introductory flight. He immediately knew piloting an airplane was what he wanted to do. His involvement in the drug culture led to incarceration and jeopardized his future, though.

The fifth of eight children, Chris Forhan was born into a family of silence. He and his siblings learned, without being told, that certain thoughts and feelings were not to be shared. On the evenings his father didn't come home, the rest of the family would eat dinner without him, his whereabouts unknown, his absence pronounced but not mentioned. And on a cold night in 1973, just before Christmas, Forhan's father killed himself in the carport. Forty years later Forhan "bravely considers the way he is and is not his father's son" (Larry Watson).

Committed will make you reevaluate the way you think about love. It is a relationship manual that unfolds in two parts: the work you'll need to perform on the inside, and the seven distinct archetypes you'll encounter on the outside.

Traditional family structures are adapting to make room for children conceived in previously unimaginable ways. Whole industries and internet-enabled communities are being built around reproductive technologies. And there's more change coming as science continues to move forward. Combining intimate personal stories with cutting-edge research, Reconceptions invites listeners to reconsider their own ideas about parenthood and embrace a new vision of the meaning of family.

The story of Scarlett addresses the taboo topic of Christian women and adultery, giving those women who have been silenced by their past sexual sin, a voice. This bold adventure of an unsuspecting Southern girl next door helps women realize they should never say never. Christy Neal walks listeners through the darkest moments of Scarlett’s life, traveling the lonely road of failure and despair, to reveal that God can indeed take people’s ugliest messes and turn them into beautiful messages of hope, healing, and redemption.

This book provides a step-by-step approach toward enhancing spiritual wisdom by sharing how to address any issue experienced in our daily lives such as: issues involving marriage, problematic friendships, provides steps to properly managing finances by using Biblical guidelines, and understanding why bad things sometimes happen to good people.

Wie kann man ein selbstbestimmtes Leben führen, sich von Erwartungen lösen und das eigene Glück in den Mittelpunkt stellen? Janni und Peer lernen sich in einer ungewöhnlichen Fernsehsendung kennen und lieben – schnell gründen sie eine Familie und reisen fortan um die Welt. Auf ihren Reisen begegnen sie ganz unterschiedlichen Menschen, die alle dem Ruf ihres Herzens gefolgt sind und oft einfach, aber glücklich leben.

It's New Year's Eve, and Iris has just found out that her husband, Adam, is cheating on her. Furious, she kicks him out and enlists her dad to move in and help with the children whilst she tries to mend her broken heart. But her dad soon starts to display signs of Alzheimer's, and Iris realises that if she loses her partner, she'll be managing an awful lot on her own. Soon, she realises that Adam wasn't the only one taking their marriage for granted, and for the sake of the children she decides to give him one more chance.

A compulsively listenable behind-the-scenes memoir that takes listeners inside the weddings section of The New York Times - the good, bad, and just plain weird - through the eyes of a young reporter just as she's falling in love herself.

Every couple has a restless aching, not just to know God individually but to experience God together. Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Devotional gives you a road map for cultivating rich spiritual intimacy in your relationship. Written by the creators of the most widely used pre-marriage program in the world, this devotional includes fifty-two weekly meditations help the two of you grow closer than you've ever imagined.This book will guide you on your marriage journey to make it all God intends it to be.