Monday, April 9, 2018

Review: Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away by:Gary Chapman

 Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away: Real Help for Desperate Hearts in Difficult Marriages
About the Book:
What to do when you feel like giving up

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.



My Review:
 When you sign on the dotted line and get married, I don't think anyone intends on it going badly. But after you add the stresses of life, a mortgage, children and everything else that comes next--your spouse doesn't seem much like the best friend you married that day. And if you are like most married couples you push all the resentment and negativity deep down or aside and before long it is starting to come out at an alarming rate and things seem to fall apart.

 But lucky for us, God says that doesn't mean its over--not just yet. Gary Chapman is a familiar name he has helped many marriages across the globe and he does it in a way to promote God and what God sees as a successful marriage. He takes different types of marriages whether it is from a workaholic situation or a controlling one--he does this with several different types to help us figure out how we can make it work instead of walking away.

 This is a great book and has many helpful suggestions to use in our marriage right away. I have tested some myself and they do work. We have been married 24 years and over the years things can go from stale to completely unresolvable in no time. This book helps you counterattack the devils snares and can bring a very rocky marriage to strong ground once again.

**Disclosure** This book was sent to me free of charge for my honest review from the publisher. All opinions are my own.

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