10 Lifesaving Principles for Women in Difficult Marriages-Revised and Updated

by Karla Downing

Overview

If you feel you have no control over your circumstances and you are spinning your wheels in /our marriage rela1onship, appl/ an/ or all o3 these principles, and watch them improve /our li3e.

• Reach out to others

• Understand scriptural truths

• .hange /oursel3, not him

• Detach with love

• Nurture /oursel3

• Face /our 3ears

• Speak the truth in love

• Set boundaries

• Make /our children a priorit/

• Enter God5s rest

This new and updated version o3 10 Lifesaving

Principles for Women in Difficult Marriages will help /ou find peace and confidence, regardless o3 the specific problems in /our marriage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780834129412
Publisher:	Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City
Publication date:	04/01/2013
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	536,721
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

KARLA DOWNING is an award-winning best-selling author, speaker, and licensed marriage and family therapist. Her messages provide practical and biblical truths from her personal and professional experience that bring balance and clarity to life and relationship issues. She also desires to equip ministry leaders and lay counselors to reach out more effectively to those that are struggling with difficult relationships. She is the author of three books, three e-books, hundreds of Internet articles and her website: ChangeMyRelationship.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

1 Lifesaving Principle 1: Reach Out 11

2 Lifesaving Principle 2: Understand Scriptural Truths 27

3 Lifesaving Principle 3: Change Yourself, Not Him 45

4 Lifesaving Principle 4: Detach with Love 65

5 Lifesaving Principle 5: Nurture Yourself 83

6 Lifesaving Principle 6: Face Your Fears 97

7 Lifesaving Principle 7: Speak the Truth in Love 113

8 Lifesaving Principle 8: Set Boundaries 129

9 Lifesaving Principle 9: Make Your Children a Priority 153

10 Lifesaving Principle 10: Enter God's Rest 177