Are You Married but Living Like Roommates? Do you sleep back-to-back or even separately? Do you feel lonely, bored, and sexually frustrated in your marriage? Have you, in fact, become just roommates? Millions of couples live empty parallel lives and wonder, “Is this all there is?” Talia and Allen Wagner, marriage and family therapists, have illuminated this sadly familiar, silent epidemic of Married Roommates. They give couples a new way to bring back the spark in their marriage with tools and strategies to learn how to talk to and with your spouse, not to mention how to get away from the tit for tats and the constant feeling of walking and talking on eggshells. This book helps you reclaim your marriage by learning how to: - Communicate effectively without assumptions and misinterpretations - Resolve conflict by avoiding fighting or escalation - Maintain attraction, intimacy, and sex - Prioritize one another and work as a team - Gain the tools to stop the fighting, disrespect, jabs, and low blows - Create new routines and reinvigorate the stale parts of your relationship

Are You Married to Your Roommate . . . or Your Lover? Whether you’ve been married for six years or six decades, you may wake up one day to discover that the person sleeping next to you has become a stranger. Between work, kids, financial woes, and the busyness of everyday living, your marriage may feel like it’s on life support. You and your spouse love each other, but you’re both barely hanging on. How do you find your way back? How do you reconnect with your spouse and capture all that marriage is intended to be? Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley understand. Despite being hailed as marriage experts, they found themselves living more like roommates than lovers. Through intentional work, they fought their way back, and you can too. In Reconnected, they’ll walk alongside you and your spouse as you learn to reconnect by: Sharing life-giving communicationDreaming together about your futureRekindling romance and passionEmbracing your individuality while coming together as a coupleTransforming your life from one of busyness to one of connection Take your marriage from surviving to thriving. Reconnect with your first love.

The late twentieth century has seen a fantastic expansion of personal, sexual, and domestic liberties in the United States. In Not Just Roommates, Elizabeth H. Pleck explores the rise of cohabitation, and the changing social norms that have allowed cohabitation to become the chosen lifestyle of more than fifteen million Americans. Despite this growing social acceptance, Pleck contends that when it comes to the law, cohabitors have been, and continue to be, treated as second-class citizens, subjected to discriminatory laws, limited privacy, a lack of political representation, and little hope for change. Because cohabitation is not a sexual identity, Pleck argues, cohabitors face the legal discrimination of a population with no group identity, no civil rights movement, no legal defense organizations, and, often, no consciousness of being discriminated against. Through in-depth research in written sources and interviews, Pleck shines a light on the emergence of cohabitation in American culture, its complex history, and its unpleasant realities in the present day.

In 1998 Lanette and I married at 18 years old. We knew we loved one another but had no clue how to be married. Because of our immaturity, we learned things the hard way and almost divorced a few years into our marriage. Through our commitment to God and the love we shared for our children, we chose to fight for our marriage. With my wife, I wrote Not Just Roommates to educate couples on how to deal with the major issues they will face. The book offers practical, relevant, and effective solutions to strengthen marriages and develop healthy relationships. Combining what we learned in 18 years of marriage and 12 years of counseling experience, Lanette and I will show couples how to build unity, communication skills, sexual intimacy, and ways overcome marital adversity. Not Just Roommates is a 145 page step-by-step blueprint for marriage success. If you want strategies for healthy communication, easy-to-implement exercises, and practical tips for romance and intimacy, Not Just Roommates is the answer.

The "New York Times" bestseller called "quietly gripping" by "USA Today" demonstrates how impulses can fracture even the most stable family. Despite her loving family and beautiful home, Jo Becker is restless. Then an old roommate reappears, bringing back Jo's memories of her early 20s. Jo's obsession with that period in her life--and the crime that ended it--draws her back to a horrible secret.

A step-by-step approach to making your marriage loving again.

For unhappy marriages or for married couples who act more as roommates than husband and wife, God's Marriage Code of Conduct can help hurting couples overcome the loneliness and trials within their marriage. Author Joy Callahan shares what she learned from her own failing marriage and how she used God's blueprint to save it. She lays out Biblical principles and God's laws, that if not followed, can cripple a marriage. By embracing His truth, marriages can be restored to a lifetime of passion and peace.

From Betty Smith, author of the beloved American classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, comes an unsentimental yet radiant and powerfully uplifting tale of young love and marriage. In 1927, in Brooklyn, New York, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love. Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone halfway across the country to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law—and there they marry. But Carl and Annie’s first year together is much more difficult than they anticipated as they find themselves in a faraway place with little money and few friends. With hardship and poverty weighing heavily upon them, they come to realize that their greatest sources of strength, loyalty, and love, will help them make it through. A moving and unforgettable story, Joy in the Morning is “a glad affirmation that love can accomplish the impossible.” (Chicago Tribune)

Want to keep the spark in your marriage and avoid divorce? The author, Caroline Madden, is a marriage therapist who specializes in Affair Recovery. Learn from a professional who knows how and why good relationships turn bad. Her style is direct and straightforward, using humor to relay her marriage advice.

Dr. David Clarke provides seven steps that you can implement to begin to experience the kind of marriage you've always wanted.