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How are your children learning about intimacy? What are they seeing when they watch you interacting with your spouse?  In a ground breaking approach to family dynamics, What Children Learn from Their Parents' Marriage shows how a child's perception of the marriage his or her parents have created is the key to his or her psychological development and ultimate well-being. Talking to both intact families and divorcing couples with children, marriage...

"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...

Grab your giggle box! Here comes Barbara Johnson with another helping heap of joy for women of all ages, aches, and "architecture." Author Barbara Johnson's encouraging book about a woman's adventures in aging, Living Somewhere Between Estrogen and Death, became the number-one best-selling paperback in the Christian market for the year in which it was published. Soon hordes of happy readers were flooding Barbara's mailbox with their own favorite...

There's more to life than being fabulous… but it's a start Roz and Jamie have moved to leafy Suffolk from London in search of a quiet life, so it's a shock to find the village embarking on its riotous annual drag competition. Fuelled by large quantities of alcohol and boisterous community spirit, they are soon caught up in a battle for the identity of the village itself against those who'd prefer to stay stuck in the past. Meanwhile in San Francisco,...

¿Estás pasando por problemas en tu relación y no sabes cómo resolverlos? No te preocupes, este libro está diseñado para ayudarte a superar los desafíos que puedan estar afectando tu relación de pareja. "Superar problemas de pareja" es una guía práctica y efectiva para ayudarte a identificar las raíces de tus problemas, aprender técnicas para mejorar la comunicación y la empatía, y descubrir cómo resolver conflictos de manera constructiva....

A gothic story of four siblings who, after the death of their father, are torn from a peaceful life and subjected to abuse resulting from a dark, family secret. Abandoned by their mother and forced to endure unimaginable treatment living in the attic of their grandparents' mansion, the children form their own family unit. But as the oldest boy and girl come of age, they are entrapped by their family's sordid past as they try to survive and escape...

Sometimes fatherhood can be a complicated experience. You plan for it to go a certain way, but it doesn't turn out the way you want or planned for. This book gives you a variety of stories from fathers that went through struggles personally, with co-parents, and from other people. I talk about having my family split up by a controlling church. This book also covers issues about the broken family court and child support system.

BY READING THIS BOOK, THE HOPE IS THREEFOLD: that Adult Children of Divorce will feel heard and validated about the true ravages of divorce in their lives; that their parents will feel enlightened about the unseen realities of divorce on their children, even decades later; and that these two estranged generations will reconcile. Through hundreds of hours of interviews and countless stories of the impact of divorce on Adult Children of Divorce...

A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece together a future on your own terms.     Raised in the Christian patriarchy movement, Cait West was homeschooled and could only wear clothes her father deemed modest. She was five years old the first time she was told her swimsuit was too revealing, to go change. There would be no college in her future, no career. She was a stay-at-home daughter...

"She called me TETCHED" is the non-fairy tale of a matriarch with no equal. "Mamaw" as many called her, lived a colorful life spanning nearly a century. She survived multiple wars, the Great Depression, and her own personal demons. Her love, humor and blunt hillbilly talk endeared her to all. Her life is examined in love, awe and as cleanly as possible! This "Tetched" one, meaning "touched in the head" reminds all that virgin ears need not apply....