Self Development Marriage

Lasting marriages are built one defining moment at a time. Ultimately, these are invitations from God to consider our direction and pursue transformation. With 37 years of marriage and thirty-three years of pastoring under his belt, Dave Harvey has identified those life-defining moments of a post-newlywed marriage. He wants to help couples recognize them in their own relationships so that they can take a proactive, godly approach to resolving conflicts, holding one another up as change inevitably happens, and ensuring that their marriage survives and thrives.

Creating a happy, lifelong marriage is about much more than physical compatibility. It's about a lifestyle of 24-7 intimacy that bonds couples in a mutually satisfying relationship. In The Intimate Connection, best-selling marriage expert Dr. Kevin Leman explores key secrets to the love life couples crave.

Most struggling couples let issues like miscommunication, distrust, neglect, and faded romance sit and fester for years before seeking help in their relationships. In many cases, splitting up can be the result of leaving these problems unattended for too long, when they could have been resolved at home with self-counselling. Through the tips outlined in Self-Counsel Your Struggling Marriage, you and your spouse will discover a greater understanding of your marriage and the appropriate mindset you need to start addressing difficult issues and more.

With How to Stop Overthinking in Relationships, you will finally take back control of your life. You will understand the causes, triggers, and why you respond the way you do to certain situations, even if you have tried all the other ways before. How to Stop Overthinking in Relationships answers all the relatable questions you can think of without the fancy jargon.

With their trademark insight, humor, and candid personal perspectives, Bill and Pam Farrel reveal the truths about the sexual relationship in marriage and what husbands and wives need to know to keep the embers burning.

Setting boundaries with your significant other isn’t always as simple as it may sound. We all want to be respected and loved by our partner without toxicity getting in the way, but sometimes we are blind to the red flags and tend to get caught up in the “new relationship” status. While some couples may appear to have it all together, looks can be deceiving. Those couples may also be struggling to find their middle ground, and they're probably unaware of how essential boundary setting truly is.

One out of four men face abuse by an intimate partner, and the numbers are likely to increase. Men stuck in toxic marriages rarely receive empathy because people expect them to be “stronger” and “able to withstand anything. And, with more cases of men silently struggling with mental illness and suicide, it’s essential to talk about this issue that society has swept under the rug for so long: men in toxic relationships.

Part practical guide, part client stories, part personal narrative, Zoë Kors draws on her experience as a sex and intimacy coach, thought leader, and relationship writer in sharing her powerful and practical methodology for nurturing and sustaining our intimate relationships over time. She addresses the essential truth that is almost universally missed in discussions of sex and intimacy

Discover a story of healing and personal transformation. Marlena’s childhood was full of contradictions. Her father was both a heroic doctor for people with leprosy and an abusive parent. Her Mennonite missionary community was both a devoted tribe and a controlling society. And Marlena longed to both be accepted in Paraguay and escape to somewhere new. In Nothing Bad Between Us, follow Marlena’s journey as she takes control of her life and learns to be her authentic self, scars and imperfections included.

Love has the power to wound us . . . and the power to heal us. And modern love is complicated. Which is why the ability to cultivate healthy relationships is the key to joy, peace, and a meaningful life. In Love Every Day, relationship expert and bestselling author Dr. Alexandra Solomon offers 365 daily practices to cultivate a curious and compassionate approach to your relationships with others, as well as your relationship with yourself.

Looking for ways to deepen your connection? Discover the power to transform your relationship on your own. Struggling to rekindle affection? Partner lacking motivation? Wish there was new, updated, inclusive relationship advice? With over 30 years of counseling experience, Certified Gottman Therapist Laura Silverstein has helped stressed-out individuals and couples overcome countless frustrations. Love Is an Action Verb: Stop Wasting Time and Delight in Your Relationship is a funny, thought-provoking, surprising audiobook that helps you take a deeper dive with your best friend.

In her trademark "tell-it-like-it-is" style comes a bold new book from relationship coach Suzanne Venker, who blames feminists for destroying the relationship between the sexes by insisting men and women become "equal", as in the same. Suzanne and her coauthor John M. Townsend, PhD, free women from the equality meme and embolden them to embrace the way men and women are naturally wired.

You know you want to spot and stop manipulation from taking root in your life. You want to wrest back that feeling of control and get the sense of empowerment where no one but yourself holds the key to your destiny. In Manipulation, you will learn how to do so.

¿Qué hacer cuando el hombre que debería de ser un apoyo amoroso en la vida de cada mujer resulta el que la obstaculiza de diversas maneras? Tere Díaz, especialista en terapia de pareja y desarrollo humano, responde de manera sencilla y precisa a través de este libro. Muchas mujeres acuden a terapia por síntomas dolorosos, por angustias en su vida que no saben que los origina y nutre. El común denominador de muchas de ellas es la pareja que eligieron y con la que comparten los días.

Meg Wilson watched her world fall apart when her husband confessed years of sexual addiction. She has an intimate knowledge of all you may have felt-and she's lived to tell about it. With honesty and hopefulness, Meg uses her own story, along with other examples and Scripture, to help women cope and find their way out of the darkness of their husbands' sexual compulsions. She wants you to know that God's first concern is for your relationship with Him - not your circumstances.

Between the worry, the doctor's appointments, and the thousand small challenges of everyday life, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and exhausted. The idea of showing abundant love to every member of your family can feel like a daunting task. Jolene Philo has been there. And in this wise, warm, practical guide, she and Dr. Gary Chapman show you how the five love languages can help strengthen your marriage and family life-whatever your needs.

You've met the partner of your dreams and have gotten your happily ever after, but now you've taken on a new role: stepmom. And you have no idea what you signed up for. Or maybe you've been a stepmom for a while now, but things are getting you down. Who do you turn to for help? Where is the stepmothering support group that'll give you the advice you need? A book for all the ins and outs of having a blended family? Who actually gets how hard being a stepmom can be?

Marriage is all about sharing: sharing space, sharing joys and sorrows, sharing hopes and dreams. Yet we often hold back a part of ourselves because we fear that being wholly transparent - about our past, our desires, our failures, our faults - will bring judgment, rejection, or even just unwanted friction to our relationship. We are afraid to be fully known. As a result, we never experience being fully loved. In this paradigm-shifting book, Ryan and Selena Frederick show you how to develop a see-through marriage, one that is marked by full transparency and confident vulnerability.

From these disparate phenomena: Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse who as president of a Midwestern college observed the trials of this generation up close, sees an existential threat to the American way of life. In The Vanishing American Adult, Sasse diagnoses the causes of a generation that can't grow up and offers a path for raising children to become active and engaged citizens. He identifies core formative experiences that all young people should pursue.

One of the secrets of a great marriage is laughing together. Couples don't need to choose between work and play, duty and fun, laughter and responsibility. This book will help couples learn how to use fun, humor, and laughter to lighten the load of everyday life, reduce stress, and grow closer together.