Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away - Book Review and Giveaway

Book Overview:

When you said, “I do,” you entered marriage with high hopes, dreaming it would be supremely happy.

You never intended 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.”

Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away, the revised and updated edition of the award-winning Desparate Marriages, teaches you how to:

Recognize and reject the myths that hold you captive
Better understand your spouse’s behavior
Take responsibility for your own thoughts, feelings, and actions
Make choices that can have a lasting, positive impact on you and your spouse

An experienced marriage and family counselor, Gary Chapman speaks to those whose spouse is any of the following:

Irresponsible
A workaholic
Controlling
Uncommunicative
Verbally abusive
Physically abusive
Sexually abusive
Unfaithful
Addicted to alcohol or drugs
Depressed

Marriage has the same potential to be miserable as it does to be blissful. Read Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away to learn how you can turn things around.

About the Author:

GARY CHAPMAN--author, speaker, counselor--has a passion for people and for helping them form lasting relationships. He is the #1 bestselling author of The 5 Love Languages series and director of Marriage and Family Life Consultants, Inc. Gary travels the world presenting seminars, and his radio programs air on more than 400 stations. For more information visit his website at www.5lovelanguages.com.

My Review:

Jason and I have been married 15 years (together for sixteen).  The first ten were a ticking time bomb.  How we made it without getting divorced amazes me.  Our marriage isn't perfect now, but the last five years have been amazing, especially compared to the beginning.  I attribute it to putting God first in our lives, taking marriage classes, reading books, and putting into practice the things we've learned.

You can read a book or listen to a speaker all day long, but it doesn't mean anything if you don't apply what you've learned.  The same goes for Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away.  With practical advice and real-life examples, this book is a helpful resource concerning marriage.  For instance, the reader will learn strategies on how to approach a controlling spouse, with a couple of those being asserting your own freedom and not fighting or arguing with the controller.

This isn't a book that guarantees marital success, but it is a book that will help you learn how to deal with the kind of marriage your're in.  It will give tips on what you can do to try to make things work, without sacrificing your self-worth.  I personally think that are times a marriage should call it quits, but I also know first-hand that marriages can change for the better.  This book isn't laden with scientific terms and fancy prose; It's written in a tone that anyone can understand.

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