The Healthy Divorce: Keys to Ending Your Marriage While Preserving Your Emotional Well-Being
While divorce can be filled with anger, frustration, and bitterness, most divorcing couples want to end their marriage in a manner that preserves their dignity and emotional health, especially if there are children in the picture. They want to prevent irreparable damage to themselves and their children from a long, drawn-out, ugly battle. The Healthy Divorce provides them with the tools to more peacefully negotiate the difficult process of divorce. Filled with checklists, exercises, and rituals—as well as case histories of couples who have successfully used this positive approach—The Healthy Divorce is your essential guide to getting through your divorce without ruining your life or permanently harming your children. The Healthy Divorce empowers couples to negotiate, handle sensitive issues,...
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Divorce and Recovery-101 Stories About Surviving and Thriving after Divorce
The heartfelt stories in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Divorce and Recovery provide support, inspiration, and sometimes humor on all the phases of divorce. The writers share their personal stories about the initial shock of the decision, to the logistics of living through the divorce, to the inevitable self-discovery, and the new world of dating and even remarriage. It is a wonderfully uplifting book. Readers going through a divorce will find this book a tremendous source of emotional support and a good guide as to what to expect as they go through the process. The first Chicken Soup for the Soul book was published in 1993, and became a publishing industry sensation, ultimately selling eight million copies. Since then,...
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Adult Children of Divorce: Haunting Problems and Healthy Solutions
Based on research and real-life examples, Adult Children of Divorce grapples with the feelings of loneliness, low self-esteem, abandonment fears, the need for consistency, and the tendency to extremes of many adults who come from families of divorce. This book prescribes refreshing tips and exercises adults can do to help themselves deal with left-over...
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I Do Again: How We Found a Second Chance at Our Marriage-and You Can Too
An attractive young couple, Jeff and Cheryl Scruggs seemed to have it all: professional success, adorable twin daughters, and a good marriage. But their picture-perfect image concealed a widening chasm between two people unable to connect on an intimate, soul-deep level. Ten disappointing years of marriage. Seven painful years of divorce. One remarkable, true-life story of a love rescued by God. After years of frustration, Cheryl’s longing for emotional fulfillment led to an affair and, finally, a divorce that left Jeff utterly devastated and seething with anger. Yet, incredibly, seven years later, Jeff and Cheryl once again stood at the altar, promising to “love, honor, and cherish” one another. A new and vibrant love had risen out of the...
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Till Death Do Us Part
People imagine spending their lives with the one they are madly in love with. The visions generally include all of the good times, the wedding of their dreams, the children and the vacations. Life as it is envisioned is generally a great love story mixed with achieving life’s goals. There is a poem that says, “The greatest fall is when you fall in love.” As these pages unfold the story of life, marriage, death and the will of God, will be explored. Marriage is God’s will for our lives because in Genesis He said, “It is not good for man to be alone.” There is a special connection that is irreplaceable between husband and wife. Many refer to it...
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Formerly A Wife
Now that I’m on my own can I be tough enough to survive, yet preserve a tender spirit? How do I deal with all of these intense feelings? How do I make this house my home? Formerly a Wife, written by one who has been there, will help women in the post-divorce phase of their lives to confront a myriad of issues including identity, self-worth, pain and memories, new responsibilities, making healthy choices, and admitting their feelings without feeding...
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