Desperate marriages - Gary D. Chapman

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 youhow 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.