Family Conflict

Simplify Your Life: $3 Solutions to Big Problems - Navigating Family Conflicts Edition Family conflicts can be overwhelming, but they don’t have to be. This $3 guide provides practical strategies to help you understand, address, and resolve family disagreements effectively. With a focus on empathy, communication, and long-term connection, this eBook equips you with tools to turn conflicts into opportunities for growth. Inside, you’ll discover: How to identify and address the root causes of conflicts. Techniques for managing emotional reactions and staying calm. Proven communication ...

Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer—they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one wonderful and terrible summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.

With more than three decades of experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist, Dr. McBride guides you through the emotional fallout and challenges of being married to and divorcing a narcissist. The court system assumes that both parties in most high-conflict divorces are at fault, but a narcissist can wreak havoc in the divorce process. Dr. McBride shows how to navigate this kind of divorce and how you and your children can heal afterward.

What happens when the person you once loved turns your child against you? When your identity as a parent is erased through lies, manipulation, and a court system that doesn’t understand emotional abuse? This book is for every mother or father who woke up one day and realized they were no longer seen by their own child. It’s for those who have been called “high-conflict” for telling the truth, who have been painted as the villain while the narcissist plays the victim, and for those who are fighting for their child’s heart in silence. Melissa Rymer, a certified recovery and divorce ...

When John Whitney, the powerful CEO of a multimillion-dollar gas station empire, receives the devastating news that his illness is terminal, he must confront the question he has avoided for years: who will succeed him? The contenders are his three children—each already working in the corporation—and Mike, his long-time associate. But what begins as a succession plan quickly spirals into a dangerous game of manipulation and betrayal. Family loyalty means nothing when fortune and power are at stake. Lies are spun, secrets are exposed, and ambition turns toxic. Paul, John’s eldest son, ...

In The High-Conflict Custody Battle, a team of legal and psychology experts present a practical guidebook for people like you who are engaged in a high-conflict custody battle. If you are dealing with an overtly hostile, inflammatory, deceitful, or manipulative ex-spouse, you will learn how to find and work with an attorney and prepare for a custody evaluation. The book also provides helpful tips you can use to defend yourself against false accusations and gives a realistic portrayal of what to expect during a legal fight.

My obnoxious, unemployed neighbor is the last man on earth I’d ever marry, but to save my job and my reputation in this small town I’ll have to pretend I’m his fiancée. I’ve always played by the rules. I work hard and I take care of the people I love. Sure my furniture hasn’t been updated since the sixties (I inherited it from my parents), I love classic movies, and I prefer sweater sets to mini-skirts, but that doesn’t mean I’m ready to settle down with fifteen cats and accept spinster-hood. I want to fall in love, marry the right guy–an upstanding, risk-averse, good ...

Is your family torn by unresolved conflict, silence, or emotional distance? Mending the Broken Circle offers a powerful and compassionate roadmap to healing fractured family bonds and rebuilding trust where it's been lost. Drawing on psychological insights, real-life stories, and practical tools, this book dives deep into the roots of family conflict be it between parents and children, siblings, or spouses and provides thoughtful guidance on how to understand, address, and ultimately mend those painful breaks.

A guide for parents whose adult children have cut off contact that reveals the hidden logic of estrangement, explores its cultural causes, and offers practical advice for parents trying to reestablish contact with their adult children. “Finally, here’s a hopeful, comprehensive, and...

Every family is hurting, and the wounds that come from our relatives can be deeper than all others. Conflict within a family can range from daily frictions and annoyances to rage and hatred and eventually estrangement. We want things to be different but have no idea where to start. After 25 years of ministering to families, Rob Rienow believes reconciliation is at the heart of the gospel - reconciliation with God and one another.

Real solutions to a hidden epidemic: family estrangement. Estrangement from a family member is one of the most painful life experiences. It is devastating not only to the individuals directly involved--collateral damage can extend upward, downward, and across generations, More than 65 million...

A mystery novel set in the rural English countryside during the early 20th century. Centered around the enigmatic Stillwell family and their silent steward, the loyal butler Frommer, the story takes an unexpected turn with the return of a long lost family member. The resurgence from the past creates ripples through the tranquil countryside life, revealing deep-rooted secrets and chilling surprises. Set in the early 20th century, the novel paints a vivid picture of historic English aristocracy, family intrigues, and the timeless pursuit of power." The Mystery "Immerse yourself in the ...

This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson but also their children and Hemings's siblings, who shared a father with Jefferson's wife, Martha.

In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable. You will see how these parents create a sense of neglect and discover ways to heal from the pain and confusion caused by your childhood. By freeing yourself from your parents' emotional immaturity, you can recover your true nature, control how you react to them, and avoid disappointment. Finally, you'll learn how to create positive new relationships so you can build a better life.

Have you ever opened your mouth to discipline your child, and your parents' nastiest words tumble out? In an era when most parenting books focus on the child, this book supports parents in dealing more positively with themselves, as well as their toddler-to-school-age children, offering specific tools to stop policing and pleading with kids and start being the parents we want to be. Based on Dr. Bailey's more than 25 years of work with children, this book explains that how we discipline ourselves is ultimately how we discipline our children.

Cold-blooded (Adjective): without emotion or pity, deliberately cruel or callous. Meet Mattie Saunders, an independent, determined, outspoken young woman with a social conscience and a bad attitude, who loves birds. She's devoted her short life to the rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing of exotic ones people buy as pets and then abandon. It was a strange call. An old friend from high school asking Mattie if it's possible to temporarily board some reptiles at Saunders Bird Sanctuary? The Reptile Refuge where Liz volunteers has been closed by police while they investigate a suspicious death ...

Full of practical tips and how-tos, this audiobook will help you make your relationships better, deepen your intimacy with people you care for, and cultivate more love, understanding, and respect between you and others. Successful people confront well. They know that setting healthy boundaries...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LEARN THE 5 SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL COUPLES Conflict is the top reason couples seek help—but it's also an opportunity for greater intimacy, deeper connection, and lasting love according to this essential guide from the world’s leading relationship scientists and...

Sean Matheson has always been close to his nephew and niece. So when their Mum, his sister Nadine, who's brought them up on her own and is now dying of cancer, asks him to adopt them once she passes, he readily agrees without question. The kids want to be with him and he wants to step up and become their 'dad'. But he's shocked by the reaction of his partner Brett. He knew Brett had never wanted kids but he's never told Sean why, and he did think Brett would make an exception given the circumstances. It puts a lot of pressure on their relationship because as far as Sean is concerned, his ...

The four spies at the center of this story were part of a ragtag unit known as the Arab Section, conceived during World War II by British spies and Jewish militia leaders in Palestine. Intended to gather intelligence and carry out sabotage and assassinations, the unit consisted of Jews who were native to the Arab world and could thus easily assume Arab identities. In 1948, with Israel's existence in the balance during the War of Independence, our spies went undercover in Beirut, where they spent the next two years operating out of a kiosk....