How to Ruin Your Marriage


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Looking for a way to spice up your marriage? Author Mary McHugh provides proven tips and quips to make any spouse immediately snap to attention. Marriage has its ups and downs, but How to Ruin Your Marriage is here to ensure that once you get on that emotional roller coaster it'll never stop! Marriage can be a bumpy road--if you let it! Smooth marriages are no fun, and they can need a little help to keep them from becoming stale, dry, and predictable. Author Mary McHugh scored a hit when she wrote the successful How Not to Become a Little Old Lady. Now she offers up more than 250 concise, sage tips for keeping your marriage interesting in How to Ruin Your Marriage. Take your spouse on a roller coaster ride with suggestions like these: * Tell your mother-in-law she brought up a spoiled brat. * Watch All My Children, drink wine, and cry. * Exchange your king-sized bed for twin beds. * If your wife asks you if you will miss her when she dies, say, Life goes on. Complemented with illustrator Adrienne Hartman's hilarious drawings, How to Ruin Your Marriage is a surefire fix to keep your marriage from being dull and worn-out.




How to Kill Your Marriage


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Some of you are probably saying, ?What kind of title is How to Kill Your Marriage?? With all the marriages falling apart today, are they encouraging people to get a divorce? No. Don?t be fooled; their intentions are just the opposite. Dr. Chad Costantino and his wife Angela are Marriage and Family Therapists who have dedicated their lives to helping build families and bringing marriages together through the word of God and a relationship with Jesus Christ. In writing this book, they have shared a lot of their own suffering and personal mistakes. How to Kill Your Marriage is meant to challenge and inspire people who are married or are considering marriage. Its purpose is to give couples every way they could kill their marriages in order to be sure they don?t do these things. We want you to be aware of where the landmines are, and the trap doors. Now maybe you will know where trouble is lying in order to avoid it.




First, Kill All the Marriage Counselors


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"Every marriage has its rough patches. If you're wondering how to repair yours, step away from the therapist, put down the magazine, and pick up this book. If you want to build a long, happy, fulfilling marriage, why not learn from the women who've done it? Laura Doyle's marriage was in trouble. After five years, her husband had become distant. He seemed checked out of their relationship, preferring watching TV to making love. There were frequent fights that ended with tense silences and even threats of divorce. Marriage counseling actually made their problems worse. Each session seemed to reinforce the feeling that she and her husband were just too far apart. Desperate to avoid divorcing the man she loved, Laura tried something different. Rather than consulting with experts or professionals, she simply started talking to women who'd been happily married for more than fifteen years. What she discovered shocked her. Everything she had heard in marriage counseling was wrong. Laura realized that there are some basic truths to relationships that can help women maintain loving, intimate marriages, such as: The happiness of your relationship is up to you! Women hold the keys to a happy relationship 95 percent of the time (and will learn what to do the other 5 percent). What men want most of all is to be treated with respect. Treat your man with respect (even if you aren't feeling it), and he will treat you with love and care. Your man wants to know he has your trust. Give it to him, and he'll realize you are special, because you will be! After seeing her own marriage transform, Laura set out to help other women do the same. In this book, you'll learn Laura's "Six Intimacy Skills," which have been used by over 50,000 women who have transformed their previously unhappy marriages into blissful unions. Stop reading articles about how important it is to schedule date night, and learn how to transform your relationship into one bursting with energy, intimacy, and love. First, Kill All the Marriage Counselors will put you on the path to having the marriage you want with the man you love"--




9 Lies That Will Destroy Your Marriage


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Expose the Lies. Understand the Truths. And Make Your Marriage Better than Ever! Lies about marriage are rampant in our culture--and in our churches. But the corresponding truths can strengthen your marriage and even save it from collapse. 9 Lies That Will Destroy Your Marriage identifies the lies, explains how they can disintegrate your marriage, and reveals truths that can rescue it and help it to become the marriage of your dreams. Greg Smalley, a general marriage expert, and Robert Paul, the therapeutic director of Hope Restored, a renowned crisis marriage program created for Focus on the Family, combine to offer an unusual and powerful combination of perspectives that can restore hope and healing in any marriage, including yours. What Are the 9 Lies about Marriage?Love Lie #1: And They Lived Happily Ever AfterLove Lie #2: 1 + 1 = 1Love Lie #3: All You Need Is LoveLove Lie #4: I Must Sacrifice Who I Am for the Sake of My MarriageLove Lie #5: You Must Meet Each Other's NeedsLove Lie #6: Our Differences Are IrreconcilableLove Lie #7: I'm Gonna Make You Love MeLove Lie #8: "Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy!"Love Lie #9: You Win Some, You Lose SomeDo any of these lies resonate with you? Read 9 Lies That Will Destroy Your Marriage and start exposing the lies and living the truth. Includes several self-tests to help you and your spouse assess the extent to which your marriage has been affected by each of the nine lies.




How Not To Kill


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"Out of all the relationship books I’ve read, this one's at the top of my list! The first book I would recommend to anyone. It's funny, inspiring, with incredibly powerful ideas." – Dr. Mike Nichols “The principles in this book have literally changed my life, and given me practical tools for every relationship. I am confident it can do the same for you, wherever you are on your journey." – Melissa Drobnak “This book gives hope to the hopeless relationship. Each chapter gets straight to the heart of relationship issues and provides the know how to make change happen.” – Chelsea Wells Filled with moments to make you laugh, stories to inspire you, and insights to find effective solutions, these pages contain tools for every relationship you face. Developed from decades of research and clinical experience, Dr. Nealy Brown has introduced thousands across the globe to these life changing truths. Learn how to navigate difficult situations, quickly end conflicts, and touch cold hearts, even in your most challenging relationships, through simple, practical methods. Discover true stories of people facing impossible bosses, shattered marriages, and distant kids, and the steps that lead to amazing relationships where you never before thought it was possible. Restore your marriage even after your spouse has walked out. Heal that relationship with your teenager who’s slipping away. Revive your work life in the job you dread to face each day. Strengthen your healthy relationships even further.




Divorce Busting


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A step-by-step approach to making your marriage loving again.




The Love Dare


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Unconditional love is eagerly promised at weddings, but rarely practiced in real life. As a result, romantic hopes are often replaced with disappointment in the home. But it doesn’t have to stay that way. The Love Dare, the New York Times No. 1 best seller that has sold five million copies and was major plot device in the popular movie Fireproof, is a 40-day challenge for husbands and wives to understand and practice unconditional love. Whether your marriage is hanging by a thread or healthy and strong, The Love Dare is a journey you need to take. It’s time to learn the keys to finding true intimacy and developing a dynamic marriage. This second edition also features a special link to a free online marriage evaluation, a new preface by Stephen and Alex Kendrick, minor text updates, and select testimonials from The Love Dare readers. Take the dare!




Lists to Love By for Busy Wives


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From Mark and Susan Merrill, the founders of Family First, comes a collection of lists created for the busy wife who wishes to strengthen her marriage and love her husband well. It's no secret that there is a wide emotional gap between men and women. Couples crave love and attention from one another, but they don't always know how to show it. Lists to Love by for Busy Wives presents creative and practical ways for wives to bridge this gap and improve their relationship. These thirty lists will carry wives through an entire month of learning to love their husbands more deeply with advice they will come back to again and again. From lists addressing a wide range of topics, readers will learn to set better expectations for their marriage, to communicate more effectively with their husband, to build a deeper foundation of love in their marriage, and much more.




The Unveiled Wife


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As a young bride, Jennifer Smith couldn’t wait to build her life with the man she adored. She dreamed of closeness, of being fully known and loved by her husband. But the first years of marriage were nothing like she’d imagined. Instead, they were marked by disappointment and pain. Trapped by fear and insecurity, and feeling totally alone, Jennifer cried out to God: What am I doing wrong? Why is this happening to us? It was as if a veil had descended between her and her husband, and between her and God—one that kept her from experiencing the fullness of love. How did Jennifer and her husband survive the painful times? What did they do when they were tempted to call it quits? How did God miraculously step in during the darkest hour to rescue and redeem them, tearing down the veil once and for all? The Unveiled Wife is a real-life love story; one couple’s refreshingly raw, transparent journey touching the deep places in a marriage that only God can reach. If you are feeling disappointment or even despair about your marriage, the heart-cry of this book is: You are not alone. Discover through Jennifer’s story how God can bring you through it all to a place of transformation.




Marriage Killers


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"Dr. John Page has created a heavily facetious handbook of seven foolproof ways to destroy a relationship, complete with case studies drawn from his own experiences. His relationship-killing "strategies" include not listening to one's signifi cant other, keeping finances completely separate, watching porn and denigrating a spouse's family and friends. Once readers wade through the sarcasm, Page offers solid, commonsense relationship advice: make time for each other; trust each other; support, nurture and respect your significant other; and let the things that are important to him or her be important to you. He makes the interesting and thoughtful point that readers can learn how their partners want to be loved by paying attention to how they love." Kirkus Reviews If you're tired of faking your marriage, read and put into practice the 7 Surefi re Strategies of Marriage Killers--you'll ruin your relationship in no time! Take your marriage seriously and are in it for life? You won't need this book. But if you're in a marriage "until something better comes along," then this book is for you. Stop pretending and get serious about killing your marriage!