Marriage Psychology

Narcissist Escape Playbook provides a detailed guide to understanding, resisting, and escaping narcissistic abuse. This book provides you with powerful tools to recognize manipulative behavior, set boundaries, and rebuild your confidence so you can step into a life free from toxic influence. You don’t have to let narcissistic abuse control your life any longer. With the Narcissist Escape Playbook, you’ll gain the clarity, confidence, and practical steps needed to escape, recover, and live a life filled with peace and self-respect.

Navigating relationships is challenging enough—but when Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) enters the equation, it adds another layer of complexity. An OCD Life: OCD, Dating, and Marriage is an insightful and deeply personal guide for individuals struggling with OCD who want to build meaningful romantic relationships. Drawing from personal experience, research, and expert strategies, this book explores how OCD impacts dating, marriage, intimacy, and communication.

Every woman deserves to enjoy great sex with her husband, without inhibition or shame. But many wives live with the burden of self-doubt or feel mystified about what men really want in bed. Others wrestle with memories of sexual abuse or neglect, guilt over past intimate relationships, or negative feelings about their own bodies. Maybe you’ve been thinking you were alone in your struggle to discover sexual fulfillment.

When Dr. David Kirkpatrick's wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2007, their lives - and their marriage - would change forever. In an honest, uplifting, and sometimes heartbreaking account of loving a partner with dementia, Dr. Kirkpatrick creates a clear guide for others in similar circumstances. He shares his perspective both as a loving and grief-stricken husband coping with a profound change in his marriage, and as a geriatric psychiatrist doing everything he can for his wife while continually learning throughout that experience.

Are you passionately dedicated to experiencing your full capacity for love? If so, you are in for a thrilling ride on the greatest journey imaginable. If that sounds like a tempting invitation, keep reading, and prepare to take in some life-altering truths: that as you get older, your love life can get better. That instead of fading, your relationships can flourish. That you can have more exquisite love and more passionate sex in the second half of life than you ever had before.

Are you in a mixed-orientation marriage where you or your partner identify as LGBTQ+? You’re not alone. Thousands of couples face similar challenges, and while it may feel overwhelming, there is a path to understanding, acceptance, and love. This guide offers practical tools and strategies for navigating the complexities of mixed-orientation marriage, whether you’re dealing with coming out, family dynamics, or legal and financial considerations.

From Abby Ellin's first date with the commander, she was caught up in a whirlwind. Within six months, he'd proposed and they'd moved in together. But soon, his exotic stories of international espionage began to unravel. Finally, it all became clear: He was lying about who he was. After leaving him and sharing her story, she was floored to find out that her experience was far from unique. People everywhere, many of them otherwise sharp-witted and self-aware, are being deceived by their loved ones every day.

Very few families are perfect. But looking from the outside in, through conversations in the grocery store or clicking through social media, often times it seems we are the only ones struggling with raising our kids or aligning with our spouses on parenting. The reality is that so many families struggle. Vicki Hoefle, three-time author, parenting coach, and sought-after speaker, offers a fresh, practical roadmap for achievable family - and marital - harmony and happiness.

Whether you're seeking deeper intimacy, struggling with patterns of insecurity, or simply curious about why you love the way you do, this book offers insights that are both enlightening and transformative. Drawing from psychology, neuroscience, and real-life stories, Anxious Heart, Secure Soul unravels the complexities of attachment theory in a way that’s accessible, compassionate, and refreshingly practical. Discover how attachment styles—such as anxious, avoidant, and secure—shape our reactions, our emotional needs, and even the types of partners we attract.

Peter Fraenkel presents a practical, creative, integrative approach that combines action- and insight-oriented techniques to help last-chance couples manage conflict, modulate intense negative emotions, address power struggles, develop mutual compassion, and restore emotional intimacy and pleasurable connection. Special attention is paid to developing a collaborative therapeutic alliance when partners have little motivation for therapy or faith that it can be effective. Through engaging in "nonbinding experiments in possibility," partners can then better evaluate whether to "stay or go."

Relationships fundamentally influence our health and happiness - and family is the only relationship that we cannot leave, however much we might like to. But we think too narrowly about the impact of our families on our lives. Every Family Has a Story sees best-selling psychotherapist Julia Samuel turn from her work with individuals to sessions with a wide variety of families.

From best selling author Barbara DeAngelis, the audiobook for both sexes that reveals everything women want men to know about loving and understanding the woman in their life.

Are you ready to take your marriage to the next level? In Be the Man She Needs: A Journey to Loving Your Wife Better, Malcolm Carter offers a transformative approach to loving your wife beyond the words, "I love you." This essential guide explores how you can deepen your connection by mastering the art of active listening and understanding what truly makes your wife feel valued and cherished. Drawing on a rich blend of research and real-world experience, Carter digs into the nuances of marital communication and emotional intelligence. He reveals how the power of listening—really listening...

We’ll talk about funny and serious topics such as the fragile male ego, the general differences in what men and women expect in the bedroom, how they compete with each other, how they want to feel, and general communication styles they tend to embrace. Finally, a list of ideas is given with creative dates and gifts, so that you have something to refer to when you’re trying to come up with the next romantic evening.

In 2012 Melissa Broder went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread, so she began @SoSadToday, an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express her darkest feelings and which quickly gained a dedicated following. In So Sad Today, Broder delves deeper into existential themes, from eating disorders, drug addiction and unusual fetishes to love, death and the drama of waiting for the universe to text you back.

A man looking for romance on the adult affair website Ashley Madison thinks a woman fleeing a sexless marriage may be creating what she’s attempting to escape from, as she works to transform him.

Why Do Women Test Men—And Why Are Most Men Failing? Are you tired of walking on eggshells, never sure if your honesty will backfire? Wondering why your kindness gets ignored while "assholes" win? Sick of being called "toxic" for leading—or "weak" for compromising? • Uncover the biological reasons behind every test she throws your way. • Learn military-grade tactics to shut down emotional manipulation. • Discover why modern relationships are rigged against men (and how to flip the script). • Master the art of unbreakable confidence that women crave—but feminists hate.

Whether you’ve been involved with a narcissist for years and are just realizing it or have recently met someone you think might be one, this audiobook - written by someone who’s seen and been through it all with narcissists - will help guide you back to safety and sanity. Through a combination of social insight, brain science, and practical advice, this audiobook will give you the tools to stop being prey and rise above the narcissist’s destructive games.

Come Closer provides the tools and techniques to communicate effectively for a better sex life. Come Closer will include case studies from counselling sessions, offering an intimate view of the issues couples face and how they can be resolved. Practical exercises and 'homework' throughout the audiobook will help you take steps towards improved intimacy.

The PICCK A SPICE framework helps listeners achieve secure attachment and introduces them to a diverse range of styles like Playful Teasing, Intellectual Connection, and Creative Expression, among others.