The Emotionally Destructive Marriage

What it is

Leslie Vernick is a licensed clinical social worker and biblical counsellor with more than thirty-five years of practice, and she writes for women whose marriages are not merely difficult. Her working sentence — God does not care more about the sanctity of marriage than about the people in it, and abuse is not a marriage problem — cuts against advice a lot of women have been given in church settings, where couples counselling and more submission are offered for a situation that is actually about power. She works through how to distinguish a disappointing marriage from a destructive one, what change would have to look like to count, and what to do when it does not come. Her CORE framework and CONQUER membership community extend the work; the blog and podcast are free. In a directory where everything else assumes reconciliation, this is the book for a woman who needs to name what is happening before she can decide anything.

What it may help with

• My spouse's porn use has hurt me
• We're rebuilding our marriage
• I'm in crisis and need help now

How to access it

Paperback, ebook and audiobook (WaterBrook) Purchase from a bookseller

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