Desperate Marriages: Moving Toward Hope and Healing in Your Relationship
by By Chapman, Gary D.
Category: Religion , Christian Ministry , Counseling & Recovery

What to do when you feel like giving upWhen  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 captiveBetter understand your spouse’s  behaviorTake responsibility for your own thoughts, feelings, and actionsMake  choices that can have a lasting, positive impact on you and your spouseAn  experienced marriage and family counselor, Gary Chapman speaks to those whose spouse  is any of the following:IrresponsibleA workaholicControllingUncommunicativeVerbally  abusivePhysically abusiveSexually abusiveUnfaithfulAddicted  to alcohol or drugsDepressedMarriage 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.