A Lasting Promise: A Christian Guide to Fighting for Your Marriage
A Lasting Promise offers solutions to common problems--facing conflicts, problem solving, improving communication, and dealing with core issues--within a religious framework. With the ultimate purpose of upholding the sanctity of marriage, the book is filled with stories that reflect the sacred teachings of the scripture. The strategies outlined can help Christian couples to improve communication, understand commitment, bring more fun into their relationship, and even enhance their sex life. This book will serve as an invaluable resource for all couples that want to honor and preserve the holy sacrament of their union.
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After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful
After the Affair is the first book that explains to partners how they can help themselves through the shattering crisis of an infidelity.  Drawing on her twenty-seven years as a clinical psychologist, Janis Abrahms Spring, Ph.D., offers a series of original and proven strategies that address such crucial questions as:  Why did the affair happen?  Once love and trust are gone, can we ever get them back?  Can I - should I - recommit when I feel so ambivalent?  How do we become sexually intimate again?  Is forgiveness possible?  In clear, sparkling prose, Dr. Spring explains the sources of infidelity and offers sound, sensible guidelines for mending the relationship.
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Difficult Conversations
Whether we`re dealing with an under performing employee, disagreeing with our spouse about money or child-rearing, negotiating with a difficult client, or simply saying "no", or "I`m sorry", or "I love you", we attempt or avoid difficult conversations every day.  No matter how competent we are, we all have conversations that cause anxiety and frustration.  This book can help.  Based on fifteen years of research at the Harvard Negotiation Project, Difficult Conversations walks you through a proven step-by-step approach for how to have your toughest conversations with less stress and more success.  It shows you how to prepare yourself; how to start the conversation without defensiveness; and how to keep it constructive and focused regardless of how the other person responds.
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Fighting for Your Marriage: Positive Steps for Preventing Divorce and Preserving a Lasting Love, New and Revised
University of Denver researchers look at practical realties for succeeding in marriage.  This new and revised edition of Fighting For Your Marriage is based on the widely acclaimed PREP (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program) approach, Groundbreaking studies have found that couples can use the strategies of this approach to handle conflict more constructively, protect their happiness, and reduce the odds of breaking up.  Based on twenty years of university research, this popular book will show you how to:  Talk more and fight less, Deepen and protect your friendship, Have a more intimate, sensual relationship, Keep the fun alive, Clarity and Act on your priorities, and Develop a vision for your future together.
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How to Act Right When Your Spouse Acts Wrong (Indispensable Guides for Godly Living)
An excellent resource, a practical guide on how to stay balanced and committed in ways, which honor God, yourself and your spouse.  There are no perfect marriages or perfect spouses.  We know that having a good marriage requires effort and hard work, yet we often don`t know how to continue to love when we are angry, hurt, scared, or just plain irritated.  Nor are we sure what that kind of love is supposed to look like.  Should we be patient?  Forgive and Forget?  Do something else entirely?  In How to Act Right When Your Spouse Acts Wrong, you`ll find the answers to these questions and more as Leslie Vernick reveals how God uses the imperfections, differences, and sins of your spouse to help you become more like Christ.
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Staying Together When an Affair Pulls You Apart
Affairs happen, and when a marriage is threatened by infidelity, all parties involved can become desperate. The air gets pretty thin, and our ability to look past our immediate needs is compromised. We`re tempted to look out only for ourselves, and the marital relationship is left hanging on for dear life.  How did we get here? Where do we go from here? Can this relationship survive?  Steve Judah explores the phenomenon of infidelity, considering both the push of marital discord and the pull of sexual temptation. With clear and helpful analysis of the relational science behind infidelity, he delivers a tested way back toward a meaningful marriage.  Your marriage can survive and even thrive after infidelity has been confronted. This book provides savvy, practical and hopeful guide for couples to navigate this turbulent terrain and find their way back to one another.
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Take Back Your Marriage: Sticking Together in a World That Pulls Us Apart
Today`s divorce epidemic reflects the rise of many social forces that can pull even the happiest couple apart.  In fact, many of us hold deeply ingrained attitudes and assumptions that work against long--term marital happiness.  From renowned family therapist Dr. William J. Doherty, this book helps couples pinpoint hidden marital problems and takes positive steps to stay close and connected every day.  You`ll learn to break free of such common traps as confusing desires with needs, applying a trade-in-the-old-model consumer mentality to your own spouse, or becoming overtime parents instead of full-time partners.  You`ll get suggestions for creating relationship rituals that stand the test of time; from mundane to celebratory, sexy to silly.  Whether you`re a young couple who wants to hold tight to happily-ever-after, or longtime marrieds on the brink of breakup, you can fight back to restore a marriage worth saving - even when it seems too late.  This book shows you how.
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The Divorce Remedy: The Proven 7 Step Program for Saving Your Marriage
Michele Weiner Davis goes beyond her marriage saving bestseller, Divorce Busting, with this empowering and encouraging guide for revitalizing marriage and building stronger, more loving bonds.  In a down-to-earth style that is free of psychobabble, Weiner Davis outlines a realistic, solution-oriented seven-step program for managing marital problems, which, when left unchecked, can drain the life out of a relationship.  Using revealing anecdotes and in-depth case studies, she illustrates practical ways for marriage partners to:  avoid the "divorce trap", identify specific marriage-saving goals, move beyond ineffective, hurtful ways of interacting, become an expert on "doing what works", overcome infidelity, Internet obsessions, depression, sexual problems, and midlife crises.  Get your marriage back on track and keep it there.
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The Marriage Clinic
"John Gottman has done it again!  The foremost researcher in the area of couple relationships has written another innovative germinal book on family relations, this time focused on therapeutic interventions for distressed couples.  What distinguishes this book from other treatises on family therapy is that it is based not non-clinical speculation but on scientific research findings from the hundreds of families in intensively studied in Gottman`s lab.  This is one of the most important books on couple therapy ever written and is an essential addition to the library of every family therapists or family researcher."  E. Mavis Hetherintton, Ph.D.
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