Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away

Outline

Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away (2008) offers hope to people in difficult marriages. Gary Chapman looks at common problems such as irresponsibility, workaholism, controlling behaviour, verbal harshness, and depression, and shares real stories of couples who faced them. He shows how one partner’s positive choices, honest communication, and healthy boundaries can influence the relationship and open the way to real change.

• One partner's positive choices can influence the whole marriage, even when the other partner has not yet changed.
• Gary Chapman looks at common marriage problems: irresponsibility, workaholism, controlling behaviour, verbal harshness, and depression.
• Honest communication gives a struggling marriage a way forward when silence or blame would only deepen the distance.
• Healthy boundaries protect you while you keep working toward change in the relationship.
• Real stories of couples who faced these problems show that difficult marriages can open the way to real change.

Gary Chapman is an American author, speaker, and marriage counsellor with decades of experience helping couples. He is best known for The 5 Love Languages, which has sold millions of copies and been translated into dozens of languages. His other books include Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away and Things I Wish I’d Known Before We Got Married.