Healing Marriage

If you choose to stay in your marriage, you have options other than punishing, tolerating, or ignoring your spouse; extraordinary growth awaits a woman willing to deal with the pain of her husband's struggles with sexual purity. Even if your spouse will not participate in a program for healing, you can change your own life in powerful and permanent ways. Shattered Vows is inspired by Debra Laaser's own journey through betrayal, her extensive work with hundreds of hurting women as a licensed marriage and family therapist, and her healed marriage after her husband's infidelity.

Vera thought she had it all—a devoted husband, two beautiful children, and a home filled with love and laughter. For years, she believed in the strength of her marriage, the power of loyalty, and the promises whispered late at night. But everything changed the moment she walked through the front door a day early from a weekend trip to her parents' house. What she heard first was laughter—soft, flirtatious, and unfamiliar. What she found next would destroy everything. Catching her husband Shane in a moment of intimacy with another woman, Vera’s world came crashing down. The man she ...

A beautiful injured girl. A brutish orc hunter. When they're snowed-in for Christmas, will their forbidden passion be enough to warm cold enemy hearts, or will it prove too hot to handle? RUE: I’m promised to my father’s enemy to pay off his debt. However, I detest Azrael and could never be his bride. I run away into the forest to think, where I fall into a ravine and injure my leg. A giant, green brute of a man finds me. He tells me he tends a reindeer farm and is searching for one of his reindeer who got lost. I’m sure he’s going to kill me. However, instead he takes me to his ...

“I kept thinking I could help him, that I would be the one to fix him, but I needed to realize that this wasn’t my job and, most importantly, that it wasn’t my fault. I also had to overcome this fear of being alone – of not being with the person who up to this moment had validated my existence.” Interested in achieving this powerful mindset about dealing with a passive-aggressive husband? Here in this book, you learn how to detach yourself from an emotionally abusive relationship.!! In this book, readers who have discovered they are living in an emotionally abusive marriage can ...

Many times infidelity is the death of a relationship - but an affair doesn't have to mean the end. Realistic ways of coping with pain, restoring self-esteem, and rebuilding trust and intimacy are available for the first time on audio in this guide by Dr. Janis Abrahms Spring. Dr. Spring is one of the few clinical psychologists in the US who specializes in infidelity. She offers original and proven strategies to those seeking guidance, sympathy, and solutions, laying to rest blame and recrimination and focusing instead on recovery.

Has Your Toxic Family Left You Wondering if Real Love is Possible? If you grew up in a toxic family, you may find yourself doubting whether true love—free from conditions, fear, or control—is possible. The deep emotional scars from a dysfunctional family can shape how you view love, leaving you stuck in cycles of self-sacrifice, fear of rejection, or emotional withdrawal. Healing Toxic Love: Six Secrets to Building Healthy Relationships After a Toxic Family by Steven Todd Bryant guides you in breaking these painful patterns and opening yourself to the kind of love you truly ...

Should you stay or should you go? Is it time to end your marriage and leave your cheating spouse? With this book, you'll learn what to do when things don't feel right in your relationship. It may be time to end the endless disagreements, abuse, and ignorance. Take a step back and weigh the pros and cons of your infidelity issues. Understand the reasons behind your spouse's cheating, accept them, and move on to something better!

In the complex web of love and commitment, heartache, betrayal, and broken trust may devastate lives. The compassionate handbook "Healing From Breakup, Infidelity, Broken Hearted, And How To Rebuild Trust In A Relationship And Marriage" goes deep into emotional suffering and offers a plan for healing and hope for even the most broken relationships. This book reveals the complexity of grief and emotional wounds. It examines breakup trauma, infidelity's aftermath, and the psychological effects of a broken heart through real-life stories and psychological perspectives. The lanterns of each ...

A small seaside town, two drifters, three marriages in trouble, secrets, hurt hearts, drinking problems, and an old theater. What could they all have in common? Vera is trying to keep her cafe going and raise five boys while her husband is MIA. Olivia's husband is an unemployed drunk and she's a housewife running out of savings to pay the bills. Frank is suffering a husband with a crushed ego after his acting career is ended in Hollywood. Brian's daughter is tired of drifting and wants a normal life, but Brian is trying to outrun his wife's death. Rhonda has a secret that tortures her. ...

The most comprehensive and recent statistics regarding the proportion of married individuals that have engaged in extramarital sex shows that in a national sample of over 3000 adults, 25 percent of men and 15 percent of women reported having sex with someone other than his or her spouse while married. The negative consequences of infidelity include loss of trust, damaged self-esteem, disruption to other relationships such as relationships with children, friends, or parents, financial consequences, suffering from emotional problems, and divorce.

In The Emotionally Abused Woman, therapist Beverly Engel introduced the concept of emotional abuse, one of the most subtle yet devastating forms of abuse within a relationship. Now Engel exposes the most destructive technique the abuser uses to break our spirit and gain control - and guides listeners on how to free themselves from the shame that can keep them from the life (and the love) they deserve.

A pioneer on the devastating effects of narcissistic abuse, Karyl McBride, PhD, has the answer for anyone desperate for help in overcoming the damage of being raised in a family headed by a narcissistic parent. Divided into three sections, McBride explores the insidious way a narcissistic environment is developed in a family, how a narcissistic parent damages a child’s emotional growth and ability to trust, and finally, how to not only move on but become truly free.

Jack Keyes had his secrets. He was driven, noble, honest, ethical, and pushed to be the next leader of the squad – if he didn’t make chief first! So in an effort to fit in with the team, he accepted a pen pal just like the others… but never expected anyone like Mia – or the crazy proposition that came flying out of his mouth. Mia Sinclair had truly made a mess of things this time around. Normally, she could handle whatever life threw at her, but this time she needed help from the one person she knew she could trust: Jack. What did it matter if she folded the towels the wrong way or ...

From a clinical psychologist who served as a clinical supervisor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University, received the CPA’s award for Distinguished Contribution to the Practice of Psychology, and has treated couples and trained therapists for over four decades, this newly updated, award-winning book provides concrete, proven strategies for those who seek to survive their partner’s infidelity and to rebuild the relationship after an affair. This new third edition of After the Affair helps guide both hurt and unfaithful partners through three stages of healing.

When Kristin Meekhof lost her husband to cancer, she discovered what all widows learn: the moment you lose your partner, you must make crucial decisions that will impact the rest of your life. But where do you begin? This inspiring audiobook shows grieving widows what to expect and how to deal with the challenges of losing a life partner.

Time to Thrive: Healing the Pain Caused by His Porn Addiction is for women who are working through the challenges porn addiction caused and are ready to build a life that aligns with their true self. This book highlights ten aspects of life that women can focus on to move from just surviving to truly thriving. After reading this book, women will know how to: Enhance their physical and emotional wellbeing Create space that nurtures their soul Define their ideal life Focus on positivity and resilience Thrive in a fulfilling and authentic lifeRene Sims is a transformational life coach ...

Dealing with marital infidelity can shake your sense of identity and your trust in people. When planning a future together and vowing to be faithful, no one thinks they’ll ever go through these hard moments. Yet some of us do and it can be a tough and shameful struggle. But the good news is - even if you might not be inclined to believe this now - you can find emotional healing and closure.

Many people find themselves feeling stuck, unable to reach their goals. The same problems keep showing up in jobs and relationships no matter how much they try to make changes and overcome obstacles. What if the patterns that repeat in your life and relationships didn’t originate with you? The source of your challenges could be rooted in ancestral trauma calling out to be healed. An energy practitioner specializing in ancestral and emotional healing, Anuradha Dayal-Gulati provides exercises and tools that can help you recognize and release negative family patterns and enhance positive ones.

As the wife of a man who is addicted to lust, pornography, or masturbation, you are not alone. Millions of men can't get through the day or the week without clicking on to their favorite Internet porn sites, thumbing through adult magazines, or watching sensual videos - and millions of wives suffer as a result. Over the past decade, nearly 400,000 men have found inspiration and hope in Every Man's Battle, the best-selling men's guide to victory over sexual sin. Now, here at last is the book for every woman who has become a casualty in the fight for sexual purity. Every Heart Restored offers godly guidance and wisdom for a woman facing such personal betrayal.

Life is hard. But it gets a whole lot easier when you start to talk it out. In How Am I Doing?, you're invited into a series of conversations with yourself to improve your mental health and reconnect with who you want to be. Dr. Corey Yeager, psychotherapist for the NBA’s Detroit Pistons and most recently featured on Oprah and Prince Harry's The Me You Can't See on Apple TV+, offers you 40 questions to help you raise awareness of your thoughts and emotions and reconnect with who you want to be.