Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away

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Last update: 12-15-2024


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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 for 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. Listen to Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away to learn how you can turn things around.


Top reviews from the United States

Sabrina Heath
5.0 out of 5 stars good, informative read
Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2024
Encouraging and helpful. This book makes you look at things from a different point of view, giving hope in tough situations!
Alyxis Bon
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2019
Literally gave me the hope to fight for my marriage & fight for self healing, this book is very insightful about real life struggles that end up hurting us & our marriages, it all starts with you, if you work on you & your issues, you will begin to find personal healing which in turn, leads to healing within the marriage, if you DONT work on YOU FIRST or THINK ITS ALL YOUR SPOUSES/PARTNERS FAULT, your marriage will stay the same or get worse & fail.

It's a great read to read by yourself, or as a couple or even in a small group. I highly recommend this book.
LEE TIBBETTS
5.0 out of 5 stars Informative
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2024
Totally enjoyed the book. Listened to it on Audibal then bought copies for my therapist wife.
Boy mom
4.0 out of 5 stars Good for resources
Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2019
The Author's approach is the same as his previous work, approach the situation with Love, but this time it's Tough Love. He goes through each destructive situation and gives solid advice on how to approach with tough love in a safe environment and where a councilor is needed. Each chapter comes with a reference for where to seek help. He also admits that some marriages will end in divorce after trying everything because you can not change your spouse, you can only influence them to change themselves.
ceedreamer
5.0 out of 5 stars Recently Learned I Was In Early Stage Dementia
Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2018
As my hubby and I had read Gary Chapman's The Five Love Languages and it was helpful to us, when I saw this book I couldn't resist. He writes a very thorough book about a husband and wife facing this dreaded condition. He gives suggestions on how to lovingly handle many of the irritating, annoying, not so nice and some dreaded situations that may be a problem between a husband and wife , by using examples of couples that have gone through these situations and how they handled it. And also gave his opinion on things that were done lovingly by the spouse who chooses to be the caretaker, or how it could've ended in a kinder, more loving, less detrimental way. I would recommend this book to ALL couples facing this disease that no one wants, and for all couples who wish to end the marriage on a better note v.s. exhaustion and relief ,when the affected spouse that has this diagnoses, finally passes.
Shayne Skipper
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book !
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2022
I bought this book for one part in it that I'm dealing with in my life, well when I got it and started reading it, I could believe how on target of the same problems I am dealing with, then I started reading other chapter and realized that there was other stuff I was going through as well in other chapters and I thought to myself I'm just going to read the whole thing. this is worth the money. best book ever !
It’s Just Me
3.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2020
Good read. I enjoy how it makes you think and look at different ways of understanding. In a way it calms you from making decisions while frustrated
PB
5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful!
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2019
There were many pages I flipped through w/o realizing how fast I was actually reading because it’s my situation to a “T”. The living in reality principles are something I’ll definitely apply. Very applicable reading even if your not struggling in your marriage.

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