Based on years of counseling, research, and success stories, Dr. Greg Smalley teaches us how to use marital conflict as a way to deepen and strengthen our relationships.In this counterintuitive book, author Dr. Greg Smalley maintains that fighting is actually good for a marriage. When couples fight, they have the opportunity to get to the real issue that is lurking below the surface of fights about money, sex, in-laws, kids, etc. And that real issue, Dr. Smalley says, is fear--fear of rejection, inadequacy, or powerlessness, to name a few. What assuages these fears are things like intimacy, respect, validation, love, and connection. Learning to take advantage of the opportunity that conflict provides is what this book is all about. The good news of Fight Your Way to a Better Marriage is that conflict--when handled correctly--is the doorway to intimacy and understanding. As Dr. Smalley leads readers through the many faces of conflict, he is open and candid about his own marriage and the unproductive fights he and his wife have had. He uses his fears and emotional triggers as examples to help readers discover their own. Couples will learn how to fight their way to a better marriage, using the skills, concepts, and exercises shared in this remarkable book.

Discover God in the messiness of your marriage, as popular marriage and family columnist Joshua Rogers offers spouses hope with real-life stories from his own marriage and helps you see how God is at work in the ordinary and extraordinary of your relationship.

Confessions of a Happily Married Man is a husband's painfully honest account of his first ten years of marriage. It offers a window into the perspective of a man who went from "hello" to "I do" in nine months and then figured out how hard marriage could be.

When Joshua Rogers thought back on the marriage books he had read or sermons about marriage he had heard, it occurred to him that he could only remember one thing about them: the stories. That's why this book is anchored by stories that other couples will relate to and can easily learn from. The stories are cringe-worthy, humorous, inspiring, heart-breaking, and full of wisdom--but the author isn't telling the reader what to do with that wisdom. He's letting the reader learn along with him as he's gradually becoming more self-aware, increasingly grateful for his wife, and surprised to discover what God is doing in the middle of it all.

"Todo lo que en realidad importa en la vida se reduce a las relaciones." Por eso es que es tan importante aprender pasos seguros y saludables para las relaciones entre un padre y un adolesccente, dos almas gemelas o entre esposos.
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"Everything in life that truly matters can be boiled down to relationships." That's why it's so important to learn safe, healthy relating patterns whether it's between a parent and teenager, two kindred friends, or a husband and wife.
Features God made you for relationships Discover 17 core fears that aggravate relationships and identify and appropriately handle yours Learn five key pathways to relationship health--God's DNA of love Stop unhealthy patterns that can severely damage your relationships using Gary's practical, doable strategies Relationships involve choice

Your marriage may be beginning to crumble. Or it may already be in shambles. Its present condition does not determine its future, though. You do.

Imagine building a home on a foundation of sand or mud. Renovating or redecorating your home would be senseless because at any moment the whole house could collapse due to a faulty foundation. Before changing flooring, wall colors, window treatments, and furniture, you would need to seek out an architect to first firm up the foundation.

Likewise, winning your husband back necessitates more than simply rearranging the old stuff in your relationship. You may decide to fight differently than you did in the past, but if the old unresolved anger is allowed to remain, then nothing will genuinely change in our marriage. "Winning Your Husband Back Before It's Too Late" targets the foundational weaknesses in your marriage. By developing an overall plan to win back your husband, you will learn how to:

• Discover what causes distance in marriage
• Understand the man you married
• Become whole
• Examine personality differences
• Build commitment
• Communicate more successfully

"Winning Your Husband Back Before It's Too Late" can help you rebuild a strong marriage in which you and your husband see each other through Christ's eyes and become one in Him.

"The Little Book of Great Dates" will help build romance and fun into any marriage with its creative ideas for a year's worth of weekly affordable dates. This book--a simpler, gift version of Focus on the Family's The Date Night Challenge campaign--will help couples to proactively and intentionally build their relationship, showing how everyday activities can become "dates" that strengthen the marriage relationship. It includes plans for special-occasion dates, such as the couple's anniversaries (first date, engagement, wedding), birthdays, etc. Couples can get to know each other better by sharing fun times and discover dating again in their marriage with this great little book of ideas

Winning your wife back from emotional or physical separation is more than doing the same things with more intensity. It involves developing a whole new strategy to overcome what seem to be overwhelming odds to attain a come-from-behind victory. In "Winning Your Wife Back Before It's Too late," Gary Smalley utilizes the following game plan to significantly increase your chances for a "miracle comeback"

• Understand "penalty flags"
• Open a closed spirit
• Honor your wife and children
• Develop sacrificial love
• Initiate change in yourself
• Be accountable by joining a support group

Through true stories of previously separated couples, you'll see how the principles illustrated in this plan have been fleshed out in the lives of real people and can lead to a successful reconciliation. Although there is no guarantee that you will win your wife back, you can still experience personal triumph and gain significant yardage in becoming the godly man you were intended to be.

"The Wholehearted Marriage "offers practical tools for helping couples keep a passionate connection with one another and understand the role their hearts play in their lives. Drs. Smalley and Stoever maintain that circumstances, such as busy lifestyles, differences between spouses, personal baggage, the loss of a loved one, childhood trauma, etc., trigger reactions that condition us to close up our hearts for protection, blocking the flow of love. A disengaged, protected heart makes it impossible to experience an intimate, connected marriage. As a result, couples drift apart, trying to find some version of contentment, or they give up altogether and look for love somewhere else.

Through their experiences in marriage counseling, Drs. Smalley and Stoever discovered that the commonly heard phrase "I don't love him/her anymore" is merely a camouflaged misunderstanding about what true love is and God's design for it. They affirm that love is more than just a feeling, and that to have true, lasting intimacy, couples need to learn to love wholeheartedly.

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"The Marriage You Always Dreamed Of" points modern marriages to health, courage, and renewed strength. Written in an embarrassingly vulnerable yet amusing style, Greg Smalley shares stories from his own marriage that will help you and your spouse establish a vision for your own.

Like the Israelites' flight from Egypt, marriage can be a struggle. Greg Smalley walks alongside couples to help free them from destructive patterns; teaches them "wilderness lessons" about honor and respect; and offers practical tools to help them develop a satisfying and meaningful marriage.

"Understand, find, and experience God's best for your marriage-the marriage you always dreamed of."

Too often, couples enter remarriage unaware of and unprepared for the challenges stepfamily life will bring. The Heart Of Remarriage helps couples heal from the inside out rather than offering surface suggestions that may change circumstances but not the lives of couples and their families.

Drs. Gary and Greg Smalley partner with remarried couple Dan and Marci Cretsinger to offer a marriage-changing idea: No matter what circumstances or challenges a remarried couple and their stepfamily face, the solution starts in their hearts. Couples will learn how to examine their own hearts and heal them from past hurts, so they can be filled with God's love.

The Heart Of Remarriage teaches readers how to create emotional security for every family member and offers practical ideas for connecting at the heart level with their spouse and children.