Difficult Marriage

What do you do when your marriage isn’t just disappointing—but painful day after day? For many Christian women, marriage was supposed to be a place of safety, love, and partnership. Instead, you may find yourself feeling lonely, discouraged, or even hopeless within a relationship that drains more than it gives. Faith can make it even harder—you may wonder if you’re allowed to admit how bad it really feels, let alone ask for help. This book offers honest guidance and compassionate suggestions for women living in difficult marriages. It doesn’t minimize the pain or offer easy fixes,...

Are you struggling to connect with your child now that they've left the nest? Are you feeling the tension and heartache as your relationship dynamic begins to change? In Doing Life with Your Adult Children, bestselling author and parenting expert Jim Burns provides practical advice and hopeful...

Grow Your Spine & Manage Abrasive Leadership Behavior: A Guide for Those Who Manage Bosses Who Bully shows managers how to fearlessly manage bosses who behave badly, ensuring a psychologically safe workplace. Abrasive leaders rub their coworkers the wrong way, with behaviors ranging from mild offense to open attack. Their bullying behaviors cause interpersonal friction that grates on subordinates, peers, and often superiors, eroding motivation and disrupting the smooth flow of work. They can inflict deep wounds and intense suffering on employees, who find themselves unwillingly relegated to...

Marriage is one of the most meaningful human relationships, yet it can also become a source of emotional stress, misunderstanding, and pain when communication breaks down and unresolved issues accumulate. Difficult Marriage is a practical and compassionate guide designed to help couples and individuals understand the psychological foundations of relationship struggles and develop healthier ways to reconnect, communicate, and grow together. This book explores why marriages become difficult and how emotional patterns, personality differences, unmet expectations, past experiences, stress, and ...

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.”

Love isn’t always clean, calm, or clear. In Messy Love, Jay Shetty invites us behind closed doors into coaching sessions with three couples navigating the complicated terrain of modern relationships. You’ll witness raw moments of vulnerability as they work through resentment, broken trust, and generational patterns–with no script, no filters, and no certainty of the outcome.

Whether it's a manager who keeps moving the goal posts, an uncooperative colleague, negative friend, or critical family member, some people are just plain hard to get along with. Often, your immediate response is to shrink or sulk, become defensive or attack. But there are smarter moves to make when dealing with difficult people. This book explains how to cope with a range of situations with difficult people and to focus on what you can change. 

** Grand Prize Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Book Award ** Are you struggling to deal with conflict in your life? In Negotiating the Nonnegotiable, Harvard negotiation expert Daniel Shapiro introduces a groundbreaking method to bridge the toughest divides—whether with family members, colleagues...

A Novena for Families in Crisis Nine Days of Prayer for Marriage, Estranged Children, and Family Conflict Through the Intercession of the Holy Family and St. Monica When a family begins to fracture, the pain is unlike any other. It is the pain of loving someone you cannot reach. The pain of watching a marriage grow cold or break apart. The quiet grief of a child who has walked away—from you, from the faith, or from both. This book was written for that place. A Novena for Families in Crisis is a deeply reverent Catholic companion for those carrying the hidden suffering of family wounds—...

Felicity Debenham was never a thief, she was a companion, not a lady for hire. But accused of one and forced to seek employment as the other, she finds herself on a journey from London to Derbyshire in the dark winter days before Christmas. Felicity is brought to a near deserted stately home to comfort its invalid master, and cheer his household and his loyal best friend. A death, a hasty marriage, and a fugitive journey will combine to change her life forever.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A teen girl’s attempt at social reinvention takes a deadly turn when a co-worker disappears—and she learns she may have been the last person to see the missing girl—in this razor-sharp, murderously funny thriller debut. After the incident last year, Greta Riley...

Every marriage stands on something. Some marriages are built on emotions. Others are built on convenience, attraction, survival, or advancement. But lasting marriages are built on strong pillars. In The Marriage Pillars, Pastor Darius Good explores 30 powerful pillars that are necessary for developing a healthy, balanced, and fulfilling relationship. Through practical wisdom, honest reflection, and biblical insight, this book helps couples recognize weak areas, strengthen their foundation, and build a marriage that can endure life's pressures. Whether you are preparing for marriage, ...

Struggling with difficult conversations, relationship problems, and communication breakdowns? Transform your communication skills and save your relationships with this essential guide to conflict resolution and emotional intelligence. Stop walking on eggshells around your spouse, arguing with your teenagers, or dreading workplace confrontations. Master the communication skills that build stronger relationships: How to Talk Without Fighting combines proven relationship advice with neuroscience research to help you navigate difficult conversations with confidence. Whether you need marriage ...

Sometimes in life when a person needs some help, it may be for a minor issue we feel a friend or a family member can handle, or a major problem requiring the help of a higher power. Whatever the life challenges, God can address them all. When we turn to God for help or guidance, we need to know what to say and how to say it. In this book of Daily Prayers, you will find a prayer solution to your problem. Prayers provided, including prayers for such things as protection, healing, repentance, and guidance. It will open your mind to receive God’s intervention and have a glorious victory ...

Imagine discovering the man you married never truly loved you. Zara's faith, marriage, and future collapse when a devastating truth comes to light. After divorce and heartbreak, she must decide: retreat into fear, or trust God and love again. After The We is a moving Christian memoir about betrayal, healing, and second-chance love.

I had a crap marriage. I mean, it was real crap. I suffered from wanton abuse for 15 years until I finally mustered the strength to run away and begin my life again. But my journey’s by no means over. In many ways, it’s just getting started. I still have massive amounts of recovery left. And even though the process is very much underway, you never know what can pop up in my life that will trigger old traumas or uncover pieces of my psyche that remain damaged. My healing starts with this memoir. My healing begins with putting my experiences on paper and getting everything organized in a ...

From the author of the acclaimed Roll with It comes a moving novel about a girl with a sensory processing disorder who has to find her own voice after her whole world turns upside down. Lou Montgomery has the voice of an angel, or so her mother tells her and anyone else who will listen. But Lou...

Is your mother-in-law making your marriage harder than it has to be? You are not alone — and this book can change that. The Other Mother: A Boundaries Workbook for Navigating Your Mother-in-Law is the most comprehensive, psychologically grounded guide available for adult children and their spouses navigating difficult in-law relationships. Drawing on attachment theory, family systems therapy, and DBT communication skills, author Claire Bennett delivers a complete roadmap from understanding to action — with scripts you can actually use. Whether your mother-in-law is a Competitor, a ...

Some conversations can't wait. The argument that started over something small. The silence after you said the wrong thing. The moment someone you love shut down completely and you had no idea what to do next. Difficult conversations with the people closest to you are unavoidable — but most of us were never taught how to have them well. We escalate when we mean to connect. We go quiet when we should speak up. We say too much, or not nearly enough, and watch the relationship absorb the damage. 100 Timeless Tips for Difficult Conversations with Loved Ones gives you a complete, practical ...

Bloomsbury presents Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel, read by Rachel Schwab. Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize A profound novel about motherhood, friendship, and the power of community from “one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature” (Valeria...