Best-selling author and longtime FamilyLife Today cohost Bob Lepine helps you work through the challenges that emerge in every marriage, causing couples to become isolated and alienated.
All marriages face seasons of distress and frustration—times when, thanks to a variety of factors, you don’t feel as close as you once were. Lepine helps you make the adjustments necessary to build the kind of marriage God intends for you to have and encourages you back on the path to oneness.
Build a Stronger Marriage maps out this path to oneness by first helping you and your spouse uncover how your motivations and expectations about marriage, childhood hardship, or family of origin issues, guilt, shame, or unaddressed relational wounds can impact a marriage relationship. You will be able to trade blame, dissatisfaction, and disappointment for a stronger, richer, and more rewarding relationship.
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Tracks
Opening Credits
Dedication
Introduction: Why We're Hurt A Reason for Hope
Part 1: How Did We Get Here?
Chapter 1: Married for the Wrong Reasons
Chapter 2: Not What I Expected
Chapter 3: The Central Purpose of Marriage
Part 2: What Weighs Us Down
Chapter 4: How Your Past Impacts Your Present
Chapter 5: Your First Family
Chapter 6: Bringing Trauma into a Marriage
Chapter 7: Confronting Shame and Guilt
Chapter 8: The Unexpected Wounds
Chapter 9: Time to Forget a Few Things
Part 3: The Essential Oil in Every Healthy Marriage
Chapter 10: Argh! Sometimes My Spouse Makes Me So Angry!
Chapter 11: Overlook? Or Confront?
Chapter 12: Without This, Your Marriage Won't Make It
Chapter 13: What Forgiveness Is (and What It Isn't)
Part 4: Restoring What Has Been Broken
Chapter 14: A New Marriage Wardrobe
Chapter 15: Marriage Best Practices: Extravagant Love
Chapter 16: Marriage Best Practices: Enthusiastic Encouragement
Chapter 17: Marriage Best Practices: Common Convictions