Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away

Name: Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away
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ISBN: 9780802496423

Real Help for Desperate Hearts in Difficult Marriages

By Gary Chapman

Gary Chapman addresses the partner who is still committed but feeling desperate—living with a spouse who is apathetic, controlling, verbally or physically abusive, unfaithful, or caught in addiction. Rather than cataloguing what the difficult spouse needs to do, Chapman begins with attitude and action on the reader’s own side, arguing that change in the emotional climate of a marriage nearly always starts there. Separate chapters address each type of difficult spouse in practical terms, drawing on love languages and Chapman’s faith-informed framework for staying and loving well under pressure.

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Concepts

Reality Living
Chapman's framework for accepting a marriage as it actually is rather than as one wishes it were, as the foundation for making any real change.
The Hidden Self
The private inner world of a spouse—fears, wounds, past experiences—that drives behavior, understanding it helps explain seemingly irrational or hurtful actions.
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Chapters

Introduction
Part 1. When You're Desperate
Chapter 1. The Valley of Pain
Chapter 2. Where You Start - Attitude and Actions
Chapter 3. Why Did He Do That?
Part 2. Apathetic Spouses
Chapter 4. The Irresponsible Spouse
Chapter 5. The Workaholic Spouse
Chapter 6. The Depressed Spouse
Part 3. Abusive Spouses
Chapter 7. The Controlling Spouse
Chapter 8. The Verbally Abusive Spouse
Chapter 9. The Physically Abusive Spouse
Chapter 10. The Sexually Abused / Sexually Abusive Spouse
Part 4. Disconncected Spouses
Chapter 11. The Uncommunicatve Spouse
Chapter 12. The Unfaithful Spouse
Chapter 13. The Alcolhic / Drug-Abusing Spouse
A Final Word
There's Hope