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Chris Fabry
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Written by:
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Gary Chapman
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What to do when you feel like giving up
When you said, “I do”, you entered marriage with high hopes, dreaming it would be supremely happy. You never intended for it to be miserable.
Millions of couples are struggling in desperate marriages. But the story doesn’t have to end there. Dr. Gary Chapman writes, “I believe that in every troubled marriage, one or both partners can take positive steps that have the potential for changing the emotional climate in their marriage.”
Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away, the revised and updated edition of the award-winning Desparate Marriages, teaches you how to:
- Recognize and reject the myths that hold you captive
- Better understand your spouse’s behavior
- Take responsibility for your own thoughts, feelings, and actions
- Make choices that can have a lasting, positive impact on you and your spouse
An experienced marriage and family counselor, Gary Chapman speaks to those whose spouse is any of the following:
- Irresponsible
- A workaholic
- Controlling
- Uncommunicative
- Verbally abusive
- Physically abusive
- Sexually abusive
- Unfaithful
- Addicted to alcohol or drugs
- Depressed
Marriage has the same potential to be miserable as it does to be blissful. Listen to Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away to learn how you can turn things around.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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- Edwige Mabene
- 2018-11-10
excellent livre
parfait pour aider les couples à traverser des moments difficiles et à rebâtir la confiance et une relation intime.
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- Sarah Reeve
- 2023-07-03
Great Book
I would recommend this book to anyone thinking about leaving their partner! Very useful information
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- luke
- 2021-05-27
eye opening
This book was eye opening, hoping that some of the perspectives will help save my marriage.
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- Semirat
- 2023-02-02
Great Book
I love this but book, great examples and very relatable. I enjoyed listening to this book and I love how the author talks about faith
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- Thomas
- 2018-09-17
Sound advice, even before marriage.
This was a great book and think that it would be good even before getting married to get into the right mindset. I will be coming back to listen to it again.
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- Karla23
- 2018-10-10
Great book to understand spouse
This book opened my eyes to understand things about my spouse that I didn’t before. Stories are very helpful and I definitely recommend this book.
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- IRVINE
- 2020-06-10
WOW! WOW! WOW! OMG!
My marriage summed up in so many ways that no one understands. Im only on chapter 4 and I already feel more understood then I do with my family, friends, counsellor and doctor. I can't wait to hear what is to come.... at the very least understand our life and make a decision from there. Marriage or divorce, my head and hear at at the great war I have had to deal with, may e understanding will help the war to end and to move forward however it may move forward.
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- SaraFDJ
- 2021-08-06
Sound advice, but too much “God”
Solid advice but as an atheist, I found the CONSTANT reference to God and bible quotes very irritating. I had to push through those parts.
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- Rachel Pedersen
- 2023-02-21
Excellent book
The book gave me a lot of insights into my marriage and the conscious and subconscious damage that I have done to my spouse and ways to influence change.
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- lorraineK
- 2023-12-09
Overly simplistic and diminishing
I am usually a big fan of Gary Chapman but I found this book overly simplistic to very complex problems, and diminishing, which may have been due to all the God references
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