Real Life Marriage

Pastor Mark Driscoll and his wife, Grace, talk about sex and marriage in down-to-earth terms, hitting issues other Christian books won't. While a wonderful wedding day is important, it's the last day of marriage that really counts. Will the last day of your marriage come prematurely through divorce? Will it be filled with regrets as you sit at the funeral of your spouse? Or, by God's grace, will the last day be a time to rejoice in the life you lived together?

From the acclaimed author of BOYFRIEND MATERIAL and HUSBAND MATERIAL comes a deeply emotional romance about finding love when (and where) you least expect it. Laurence Dalziel is worn down and washed up, and for him, the Scene is all played out. Six years from his last meaningful relationship...

Traci Morrow, John C. Maxwell's relationship expert, debunks the happily-ever-after myth and shows how great marriages are built one choice at a time. Humorous, uplifting, and completely personal, Real-Life Marriage will lead you through the mess to create the passionate, adventurous, and purposeful marriage-for-life you choose.

Based on a true story - How do you survive when the person who should have loved you the most, hurts you the hardest? How much would you endure to keep your family together? At 40, Sophie’s life was exactly where she’d dreamt it would be. A house in the country, two young sons and happily married to her soul mate. Anyone on the outside would have said she had it all and up until now, she would have believed them. Then Toby ruined it. He made his worst mistake. He changed everything. Can Sophie find the strength and forgiveness to rescue Toby from his demons and protect the life she ...

"Best Offer Wins is a clever, twisted, and hilarious thriller. I finished it in a day because I couldn't stop reading!" —Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid "[Narrator Cia] Court shines in her delivery of Margo's extensive inner monologues, projecting both...

Why do more than half of all marriages end in divorce? And why is there so much unhappiness in the marriages that survive? Greg Baer offers the solutions for a long-lasting marriage in his anticipated follow-up to Real Love: The Truth About Finding Unconditional Love and Fulfilling Relationships. No matter how many wounds have been inflicted in a marriage, Greg Baer believes that they can be healed, giving both partners the sense of fulfillment and joy they’ve always wanted.

Many of the people who read this book are in marriages shaped by neurodiversity, often without ever having had that language available to them. Others are in relationships where emotional intimacy never developed the way they expected, for reasons that were never named or explained. Some readers will recognize autism-related patterns clearly. Others will simply recognize themselves in the experience of chronic emotional loneliness. You do not need a diagnosis to benefit from this book. You do not need your spouse’s agreement. And you do not need to be at a decision point. What you do need...

HGTV star real estate investor Tarek El Moussa reveals how the grounding principles that make him such a successful house flipper are also applicable to improving our personal lives. With over a decade of experience, flipping close to 1,000 properties, selling over 1,000 houses, and owning...

On the outside, her life looks perfect. On the inside, she's starving. A new home. A successful husband. A picture-perfect marriage—at least, that’s what it looks like on social media. But behind closed doors, it’s a different story. Her husband, Steve, just landed a great job and discovered a new obsession with e-gaming and weekend conventions. She’s proud of him, truly—but somewhere along the way, passion gave way to polite conversations, and intimacy became scheduled, predictable... forgettable. Now, with her days wide open and her nights growing colder, temptation creeps in ...

Are you in a mixed-orientation marriage where you or your partner identify as LGBTQ+? You’re not alone. Thousands of couples face similar challenges, and while it may feel overwhelming, there is a path to understanding, acceptance, and love. This guide offers practical tools and strategies for navigating the complexities of mixed-orientation marriage, whether you’re dealing with coming out, family dynamics, or legal and financial considerations.

Medieval history is often written as a series of battles and territorial shifts. But the essential contributions of women during this period have been too often relegated to the dustbin of history. In Women in the Middle Ages, Frances and Joseph Gies reclaim this lost history, in a lively historical survey that charts the evolution of women’s roles throughout the period and profiles eight individual women in depth.

Trust your gut, take care of yourself, and find new life on the other side with this “straightforward” (Ilene S. Cohen, PhD, award-winning author of When It’s Never About You), empowering guide to divorce for moms. We hear it all the time on the news. The divorce rates are rising. More...

Quinn is finally enjoying the view from her executive office. Her new position as CMO of a billion-dollar tech company keeps her busy enough to avoid the guilt and regret she's carried around since the loss of her mother. No one else will see the monster she sees in the mirror as long as she keeps her head buried in her work. No one until Cody Kartlin comes barreling into the picture, determined to earn her heart by proving that when it comes to high-powered careers—real men aren't afraid to let a woman take the lead.

In Chasing Life, Robert Pardi takes us on an unforgettable journey through his life with Desiree, his spirited, brilliant wife, whose diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer transformed their relationship and reshaped his perspective on love, life, and loss. This memoir is more than a story about illness; it's about the power of unconditional love that defies the odds, courage that grows in the darkest places, and the life lessons learned in the shadow of terminal illness. Desiree, a dedicated palliative care physician, faced her own illness with the same tenacity she brought to helping her ...

Are you tired of swiping left and right on dating apps with little to show for it? Enter The Dating App Confessions - a collection of short stories featuring dating app users who have gone through some wild, scary, and unique experiences that will leave you laughing, crying, and cheering them on. Follow the journey of these diverse characters as they navigate the ups and downs of modern dating. From the shy introvert who finds love in the most unexpected way, to the bold and adventurous who take risks for love, each character has their own unique story to tell. And the best part? Each ...

You are a celestial being created from the cosmos. There is no need to be an astrologer to look up to the stars. They exist for all of us, and are ready to share their all-knowing truth. The stars have answers for all of your questions and curiosities.

Are you tired of feeling stuck in the same old dating patterns? Do you want to cultivate a more mindful, intentional approach to your dating life? Look no further than 30 Days to a Better Dating Experience. This comprehensive workbook offers a practical and effective mindfulness program designed to help you transform your dating life and find greater happiness and fulfillment in your relationships. With 30 unique mindfulness exercises, each accompanied by a corresponding hashtag that allows you to connect with others and share your insights online, this workbook provides a step-by-step ...

Messy Beautiful Love delivers an incredible testimony of grace that offers hope for today’s marriages and a spark for rekindling love. Love gets messy. Financial problems, sickness, aging parents, a chronically unhappy spouse . . . trials will inevitably come that threaten your marriage. No...

The Real Guide to Life as a Couple is an essential book for all couples looking to develop or maintain a healthy relationship. It covers topics from communication, parenting, sex, dealing with friends, and losses. This guide features learning exercises, comic illustrations and truth or dare games. The Real Guide to Life as a Couple provides serious relationship advice amidst lots of fun exercises and challenges designed to get couples thinking and talking to each other. Regardless of whether you have been with your partner a short or long time, this guide will help create a stronger bond ...

The Honeymoon Disaster That Sparked A Marvelous Marriage is a true-to-life story of a marriage that literally began “on the rocks” and would have figuratively ended up “on the rocks” if God had not intervened. “I remember, even to this day, catching the weight of the surrey with my right leg, which amazingly didn’t break, and pushing it back upright since it had landed sideways on the rocks. My wife, however, must have struck the handlebars before being thrown out of the surrey because she was lying unconscious on the rocks just to the left of where we had crashed.