Marriage Family Relationships

This guide provides a simple blueprint for achieving solutions to everyday disagreements without having to have a "winner" and a "loser". By learning how to listen empathetically, respecting each other's ideas and feelings, and understanding why some issues are so important to your spouse, not only will those daily problems be worked out successfully, but both of you will end up feeling appreciated, respected, and loved.

Learn to navigate life's twists and turns to find God's best for your marriage with the help of Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley. They'll lead you and your spouse to discover true love as described by God in the Bible. With candor and grace, these beloved marriage experts share the secrets of a strong marriage that yield a lifetime of adventurous and cray-zee love.

Fantasia Taylor—American Idol, Grammy-winning vocalist, and chart-topping singer—and her husband, businessman Kendall Taylor, were both successful and living in their purpose when they met and married three weeks later. Their marriage has had its ups and downs, but the one thing that has sustained them through all of it is the practice of taking off their crowns—the accolades, their egos, the things the world tells you matter—and serving each other within the home.

A call to arms, How to Build a Better Life will ignite a much-needed debate about the misplaced priorities of the modern generation. This guide is the antidote women need to reject the lies they've been fed by our culture so they can build the happier and slower-paced lives they crave.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Addiction 101 and learn about addiction, mental health, recovery, and relapse.

A fake engagement leads to fireworks… When Fox Wilde lands an interview for head chef at the famous Rutland’s Restaurant in Auckland, there’s only one problem… the old-fashioned boss prefers his staff to be married. Put on the spot, Fox mistakenly invents a fiancée. Now, he just has to convince his friend Caitlin to go along with the ruse. Caitlin is happy to help out a friend—especially one she’s had a crush on since she was sixteen. But it entails pretending they’re a couple, which means sharing a room. And that’s never going to end well. Tropes: Fake Fiance, fling, one-...

The country's leading authority on fathers' rights, Jeffery M. Leving, presents a definitive how-to resource for divorced dads of any age, background, and marriage history. Leving offers targeted guidance and suggests techniques for staying connected with children and dealing with ex-wives - and in some cases a new girlfriend or the wife's new boyfriend - during the divorce and afterwards. This upbeat book offers good news for divorced dads and counters many of the myths that paint divorcing fathers as alienated, irresponsible, or absent.

We all want to have better, more substantial, and engaging conversations every day with our significant other. However, knowing where to start or the right questions to ask can be a challenge when things become routine. That's why we created Questions for Couples. We have used these open-ended questions to get to know each other more deeply, have better conversations, and improve our relationship. We believe these questions will do the same for your relationship too.

It's better to regret the things you've done than the things you haven't. Right? Jess I’ve made so many mistakes in my life, I’m sure I’m in the book of Guinness World Records, and unfortunately, this year has proved no exception. Telling my boss’s wife that we were having an affair was probably the biggest mistake, but the lying bastard broke my heart, so I don’t regret it. I do regret losing my job, though, especially now I’m broke. Frankly, I’m glad it’s nearly New Year, and I can put this annus horribilis behind me. If only I could do the same with the rest of my life, ...

When you're blind, you see with your heart... Teddi Life’s tough. I can’t argue with that. I’m not referring to being blind. That brings its own challenges, but I’ve never let it hold me back from doing anything I wanted to do. I’m talking about losing my partner before the age of thirty. I thought I had it all figured out—marriage, kids, the whole parcel, neatly tied up with a bow, but it wasn’t meant to be. While Will lay dying, he made me promise never to love anyone else. I did, of course, because that’s what you do, and I meant it, at the time. And then I met Ethan. ...

Seven Sexy Sins. One Mr. Sinful. Faith Hillman is in trouble. She’s writing an article on ways to spice up your love life for her popular blog, but she’s hit a major snag—she hasn’t experienced any of the Seven Sexy Sins on her list. Luckily, her brother’s best friend, Rusty Thorne, offers to help with her research. Having had a crush on him since the age of twelve, Faith agrees, on the proviso that he signs a contract keeping their short-term relationship a secret. Her brother once decked him for kissing her on her eighteenth birthday, so Rusty’s happy to concur. While they ...

A family rift is one of the most traumatic experiences a person can face. It can have a profound effect on virtually every aspect of life, causing depression, relationship problems, and even physical illness. Healing From Family Rifts offers hope to those coping with a split in their families. Family therapist Mark Sichel addresses the pain and shame connected with family rifts and offers a way through the crisis and on toward healing. Uniquely, Sichel does not assume that every rift will or even should be mended. Instead, he offers ways to recover from any outcome.

A chance encounter with his ex rekindles memories, regrets, hopes, and desires. Will the all-consuming love that they once had for each other consume them yet again? Rudra is working as a Program Manager at a broadcasting company. He is living together with Bhavna, a girl whom he had known from his schooldays. In a chance encounter, Rudra runs into his ex, Tanvi. Rudra and Tanvi had been the ideal couple for very many years before they separated. Tanvi was the one girl Rudra had ever truly loved. The meeting brings back memories, regrets, hopes, and desires. When we genuinely love someone, ...

Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from her parents and beloved sisters and made to live with her husband and his family in an isolated village in rural Yemen. There she suffered daily from physical and emotional abuse by her mother-in-law and nightly at the rough hands of her spouse. Flouting his oath to wait to have sexual relations with Nujood until she was no longer a child, he took her virginity on their wedding night.

If your emotional pain feels physical and your physical pain feels emotional, your marriage may be making you sick - literally. Join Dr. David Hawkins and his sons, an internist and a surgeon, as they explore the effects relational stress and trauma can have on our bodies.

This book Souls Amongst Lions: Battle In The Valley Of Death is about my own experience of others I met who suffered in the hands of their mothers, siblings and in-laws. In this book I touch on marriages between refugees and citizens. My own experience and that of my husband and child has been a painful one. My mother rejecting me for marrying a foreigner. Ganging up with her children, their spouses and children against me, my husband and child. Also recruiting her relatives, friends and some people in the community to reject me. She also hired some stalkers to monitor me and my child. She ...

If you're listening to this, you may have a loved one suffering from dementia, and you're looking for hope. The disease has already taken so much, and though you're determined to fight, you're weary. Keeping Love Alive as Memories Fade will renew your strength. With guidance from professionals and stories of committed caregivers, you'll learn how others have braved the road ahead and how you can, too. Using the five love languages and other creative ideas, you can discover, like many others, the resilient power of love.

Money issues are a frequent source of conflict in any marriage. But blended families are a monetary minefield. Debts, bills, and child support payments from previous relationships often influence the finances of a blended family. And planning for college expenses, retirement, and inheritance gets even more complicated in stepfamilies.

In Why Have Kids?, Valenti explores these controversial questions through on-the-ground reporting, startling new research, and her own unique experiences as a mom. She moves beyond the black and white “mommy wars” over natural parenting, discipline, and work-life balance to explore a more nuanced reality: one filled with ambivalence, joy, guilt, and exhaustion. Would-be parents must navigate the decision to have children amidst a daunting combination of cultural expectations and hard facts.

A collection of three of Serenity Woods's standalone contemporary romances. Book 1: Kiss & Make Up Lights, camera… Action! It’s been a year since makeup artist Tabby Rogers’ life was turned upside-down. Now she’s back on track. In a month, she'll be in the UK for the career opportunity of a lifetime. One she absolutely cannot let pass her by. Until she leaves, all she has to do is fill in on a movie shoot in New Zealand and keep out of trouble. And trouble looks a lot like a devilishly hot stuntman... Eli Black has one rule: don’t date girls on set. His only goal is to get to ...