Twogether In Texas : Recommended Reading : Divorce
Author: Dr. Gary Rosberg, Barbara Rosberg
Would you allow rainwater to leak into your house? Homeowners don't allow their homes to fall into disrepair. Yet millions of couples allow their marriage to fall apart. Disappointments lead to discord and distance...and then emotional divorce. Couples don't have to be legally divorced to have given up on their marriage. Broken marriages lead to broken communities...and a broken nation. We need to rebuild our communities and nation-and it starts with rebuilding marriages.
The Essential Humility of Marriage : Honoring the Third Identity in Couple Therapy
Author: Terry D. Hargrave
Using current research and the author's own work with couples, this book will challenge you to examine how you look at marriage. It offers a place to begin with damaged relationships and points you in a different direction. The author's examples and exercises will help you in shaping your own beliefs about struggling marriages and give useful tools for those couples that need help in the relationship. This will encourage you and help you believe how integrity can be restored.
Breaking the Cycle of Divorce: How Your Marriage Can Succeed Even if Your Parents' Didn't
Author: John Trent
When you come from a home of divorce, making your own marriage work can be tougher than average. But, you can stop the cycle. In Breaking the Cycle of Divorce, author John Trent, an adult child of divorce himself, offers encouragement, insight and the tools to equip you to beat the odds. Learn to face your fears, make reasonable and realistic changes, and get the help you need to avoid becoming a negative statistic. You can have a marriage that's strong-that thrives-and gives your own children a solid foundation for happily married lives.
Author: Mark Gaither
Redemptive Divorce is a practical and unique book offering guidance and healing to both the suffering partner and the offending spouse. It gently guides readers through a redemptive divorce process that instead of condemning offers hope and restoration. Included are helpful charts and worksheets as well as useful information for pastors, counselors, attorneys, and concerned family members and friends.
Saving Your Second Marriage Before It Starts: Nine Questions to Ask Before (and After) You Remarry
Author: Dr. Les Parrot & Dr. Leslie Parrott
More than 60% of remarriages end in divorce. That's why couples considering a new marriage-and blending two families-need help meeting the unique challenges that will arise. With wisdom and up-to-date research, couples are prepared for the future, enabling them to tackle obstacles and fears with faith, perseverance, and hope.
Author: Judith Wallerstein, Sandra Blakeslee
After the breakup of our marriage we have to remember that we are always parents, whether or not we are married to our children’s mother or father. The authors explore the three major challenges of divorce: (1) restoring yourself and finding personal equilibrium, (2) preparing and supporting your children through the breakup, and (3) creating a new relationship between you and your ex-partner. Through each of these challenges, the children play a pivotal role. This book offers valuable insights and makes solid recommendations for helping your children adjust to their new family situation as it evolves during and after a divorce.
The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce
Authors: Judith Wallerstein, Julia Lewis, and Sandra Blakeslee
The results of the first and only study of the effects of divorce that closely followed 93 children of divorce over a quarter century are revealed in this book. Comparing these young women and men with a similar group from intact families, she made a startling finding: the effects of divorce are cumulative and crescendo in adulthood. In fact, the greatest impact of divorce does not occur until people are in their twenties and thirties. At a time when one in four adults is a child of divorce, this study represents an enormously powerful phenomenon that is revolutionizing our concept of the family and reshaping our society. The study also underscores unforeseen sources of hope and resilience. She chronicles the extraordinary strength and courage of the children of divorce, who in many cases had to help both their parents and themselves to overcome the trauma of divorce.
Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce
Author: Elizabeth Marquardt
Between Two Worlds is a breathtaking book - well written, well-researched, and powerful. This Christmas I am going to buy a copy for each of my siblings, step-siblings, half-siblings, and all of my cousins who have divorced parents. Anyone who has contact with children should make this book REQUIRED READING. With divorce an epidemic in our society, there is no doubt that many of these children have divorced parents. And married couples with children, especially those who are unhappy and contemplating divorce as an option, should read this book before making a final decision.