Sometimes life doesn't turn out the way we expect. Neither do our marriages. After the honeymoon ends, some women find themselves in difficult marriages. Karla Downing understands that marital relationships are complicated. 10 Lifesaving Principles for Women in Difficult Marriage supplies these scriptural and practical principles to help improve your relationship and your life.Reach out to othersUnderstand scriptural truthsChange yourself, not himDetach with loveNurture yourselfFace your fearsSpeak the truth in loveSet boundariesMake your children a priorityEnter God's restThis new and updated version of her book will help you find peace and confidence, regardless of the specific problems in your marriage.ReviewsIf you have struggled in a difficult marriage or if you work with women who do, this book is for you!-Carol Kent, Speaker and Author of Between a Rock and a Grace PlaceThe principles in this book are truly lifesaving--a huge dose of wisdom.-Stephen Arterburn, founder of Women of Faith

Sometimes life doesn't turn out the way we expect. Neither do our marriages. After the honeymoon ends, some women find themselves in difficult marriages. Karla Downing understands that marital relationships are complicated. 10 Lifesaving Principles for Women in Difficult Marriage supplies these scriptural and practical principles to help improve your relationship and your life.Reach out to othersUnderstand scriptural truthsChange yourself, not himDetach with loveNurture yourselfFace your fearsSpeak the truth in loveSet boundariesMake your children a priorityEnter God's restThis new and updated version of her book will help you find peace and confidence, regardless of the specific problems in your marriage.ReviewsIf you have struggled in a difficult marriage or if you work with women who do, this book is for you!-Carol Kent, Speaker and Author of Between a Rock and a Grace PlaceThe principles in this book are truly lifesaving--a huge dose of wisdom.-Stephen Arterburn, founder of Women of Faith

A topically-indexed daily devotional for Christians in difficult relationships that includes a Scripture, reading, and short prayer on each page.

Christian psychologists Michael Misja and Chuck Misja show you how to be free from shame if your marriage is not “successful” by conventional Christian standards. Learn: the practical theology of desire how the battlefield of the soul impacts your life the relational process for moving from hoping in your marriage to hoping in God how to love from godly strength, without asking for a response from your spouse

A dysfunctional relationship is any relationship in which you find yourself struggling to force change, give advice, control, or fix problems. The difficulty can be due to an addiction, mental illness, abuse, a trying personality, irresponsibility, or anything else that interferes with a healthy relationship. The relationship may be breaking or already broken under the strain of the problems.When Love Hurts provides practical and scriptural tools to help you transform your dysfunctional relationship. The 10 principles in this book will help you to experience freedom--to let go and love your loved one, and to experience peace, trust, and joy in the midst of the storm. It will even provide you with tools that increase the chance that your loved one will change--the very thing that you have been trying to make him or her do and have failed. One day at a time, you will begin to change and heal. Visit Karla's website at KarlaDowning.com

Do you wish you could get difficult relationship advice from a therapist right when you need it without paying for a therapy session? That is exactly what you will have in this topically indexed daily devotional. Karla understands what you are going through because she has been there. Raised in a dysfunctional home and married with her own dysfunctional family, she has dealt with all kinds of problems where she used the relationship-changing principles she teaches. These devotions offer understanding, validation, comfort, and practical advice based on biblical principles. Written in the popular and easy to understand style of Karla’s teachings, they give you the principles and tools you need to radically change your life and relationships whether the other person changes or not. You will read them again and again and turn to them when you are struggling with frustrating and confusing dilemmas in your difficult relationships.

This helpful guide reveals how those who have been emotionally abused can overcome the past and rebuild their self-image.