Marriage Years

Step 1: Seize majority control of her company. Step 2: Bury the Hartley name. Step 3: Don't fall for the CEO you just conquered. Kate Hartley meets me with an ice-blue stare that’s like a match to dry kindling. Her counter proposal—one-year as my wife. I get a fast, uncontested path to finish my takeover, and her startup stays outside my reach. I say yes. She arrives at my penthouse with a dog and a list. We’re sparring before her bags are unpacked. She wants an office; I park her in a closet by my gym. Cameras demand chemistry and a PR shoot delivers it. She calls me smug. I prove ...

Do you feel overwhelmed and completely unprepared for marriage? Are you worried about failing in your marriage, second-guessing your decision to even get married, or considering a divorce? Here's how to adjust to married life, build a strong foundation, and survive your first year of marriage - EVEN if you don’t know where to start.

During a cringey visit to IKEA, the store where relationships go to die, Emma finally blurts out to Rob that she is no longer happy in their 26-year marriage. She wants more meaningful work, connections, thrills, joy – and more passionate sex. It’s been ages. Rob knows their marriage isn’t perfect, but it’s good enough…isn’t it? He’s loyal, solid, a good provider. What more does she want, anyway? Emma suggests taking a Marriage Gap Year. Time apart, no calls, no texts. This feisty communications manager wants the comms switched off between them for the next 12 months.

When Cora meets Sam at a baby group in their small town, the chemistry between them is undeniable. Both are happily married young parents with two kids, and neither sees themselves as the type to engage in an affair. Yet their connection grows stronger, and as their lives continue to intertwine, the romantic tension between them becomes all-consuming—until their worlds unravel into two parallel timelines. In one, they pursue their feelings. In the other, they resist.

Marriage is the most profound human relationship there is. Coming to know and love your spouse is one of the most rewarding and wondrous things we can experience in life. But it is also one of the most difficult and painful. In this 365-day devotional, Timothy Keller and his wife of 43 years, Kathy Keller, share powerful instructions on how to have a successful marriage. The Kellers draw from and expand upon lessons they first introduced in their book, The Meaning of Marriage, offering stories, daily scriptures, and prayer prompts.

"Life changes fast....You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband, John Gregory Dunne, was dead. The night before New Year's Eve, while they were sitting down to dinner, he suffered a massive and fatal coronary. The two had lived and worked side by side for nearly 40 years.

When a marriage is new, it’s exciting. But as time passes, couples can drift apart and wrestle with the challenges that are common in any marriage. It can feel overwhelming, but together, couples will find that a healthy marriage has thousands of course changes. In this follow-up to Getting Ready for Marriage, authors Jim Burns and Doug Fields offer a practical guide designed to help newlyweds build a strong foundation for a marriage that will last a lifetime.

365 Ways a Year to Cater to Her isn’t just a book—it’s a daily blueprint for emotionally intelligent, spiritually grounded, and romantically bold love. Author Devolis Newburn offers one actionable, thoughtful entry per day to help men love with purpose and presence—not performance.

When Nancy Balbirer learns her beloved eleven-year-old beagle has kidney failure, she’s devastated. She and her husband had gotten Ira as a puppy - a wedding gift to each other, and their first foray into “parenthood.” Now, her dog is terminal, her marriage is on life support, and Nancy is desperate to save them both (whether they want it or not). In a single year, she loses her two best friends, but Nancy’s life is about to take yet another unexpected turn. With humor and heart, Nancy Balbirer shares her story of relationships, loss, and canine friendship in this illuminating memoir.

In 2009, 22-year-old Joseph Fink, newly arrived to New York City from the West Coast, was juggling odd jobs to pay the rent and volunteering with a theater company in the East Village so he could snag free tickets to their shows. Meg Bashwiner, a 22-year-old aspiring performer and playwright, was living with her parents in New Jersey, working a desk job and commuting to her internship with that same East Village theater company.

In Devotions for a Sacred Marriage author Gary Thomas encourages you to build your marriage around God’s priorities and explores how God can reveal Himself to you through your marriage and help you grow closer to Him as well as to your spouse.

"The youthful-sounding Sarah Bierstock is an excellent choice to narrate this coming-of-age novel... Bierstock creates a likable character in Isabel, and listeners will want her to find her path--even if takes an affair with a professor to eliminate the bad options."- AudioFile An incisive...

Everyone thinks Barbie Roman has it all. But this time, being perfect might cost her everything. With her picture-perfect looks, polished manners, and political pedigree, Barbie Roman was raised to play the role of the ideal daughter, wife, and mother. From an exclusive enclave in Connecticut to the sun-soaked shores of Stardust Beach, she’s spent her life smiling, supporting, and staying silent. But now, the stakes are too high—and Barbie’s time as the quiet good girl is running out. Her husband Todd is one of NASA’s rising stars, and with three young sons at home, Barbie should be...

Ashley M. Bennett debuted her memoir, Not Easily Broken: Turning Hidden Shame into Distant Memories in 2018 highlighting the effects of sexual abuse, bullying and abandonment issues. In this second book, she gives just as much transparency, opening up about the beauty and challenges of choosing to be celibate when the decision seems so unpopular. She wants people to know it is possible to make a choice, not settle, and embrace the self-discovery in the process.

Tiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing in Tiller beyond his bored exterior and takes him under his wing. When Pong brings him along on a boisterous trip across Asia, Tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to talented protégé, and pulled into a series of ever more extreme and eye-opening experiences that transform his view of the world, of Pong, and of himself.

Truly loving another imperfect person is not merely a romantic feeling, but a daily decision. But what are the keys to consistently giving and receiving love? How are love and romance best experienced and expressed in the midst of life’s everchanging pressures and emotions? The Love Dare Day by Day is a one-year devotional designed to challenge husbands and wives to understand and practice unconditional love.

Read 52 Reasons God's People Love Passionate Sex and see for yourself how the "Better Christian You Become, The Better Lover You'll Be." The Bible has always promoted vigorous lovemaking while teaching intellectual, emotional, sexual, and spiritual intimacy. In 1986, when Patsy wrote God’s People Make the Best Lovers, she counted eight health and wellness benefits in the Bible that science had finally caught up with. Now as we begin 2024, the list has grown to 52 reasons passionate sex is like skinny dipping in God’s fountain of love and youth. The 52 Reasons God's People Love ...

It's all about love, connection and distance. It's not as hard as everyone makes it out to be. I'm not just writing about it, i'm living it. Great advice, guidance and help. Here's to love and long distance, let's make it last!

Liberty Johansen is going to change the way we look at the night sky. Most people see the old constellations, the things they've been told to see. But Liberty sees new patterns, pictures, and possibilities. She's an exception. Some other exceptions: Her dad, who gave her the stars. Who moved out months ago and hasn't talked to her since. Her mom, who's happier since he left, even though everyone thinks she should be sad and lonely. And her sister, who won't go outside their house.

NOTE: This is a practical book rather than a sermonizing or preaching book on marriage. The BIG question, “How can I choose the right person to marry?” is always asked by singles (bachelors and spinsters), who are intending to marry at marriage seminars, Bible classes and churches. Since time immemorial, many Christian singles are confused or rather afraid to choose a marriage partner. Therefore, they employ different methods, some of which are denominationally based. Others depend on revelations; while many come up with some odd methods. But amidst these confusions, are there CORE ...