Courage to Love: When Your Marriage Hurts

In a social climate that actually encourages divorce rather than reconciliation, Courage to Love...offers help and hope instead.

Building on the experience of Retrouvaille, a successful church-sponsored ministry that is rapidly gaining notice and taking root across North America, it focuses on relationship building. It invites couples to reconciliation, to rebuilding trust, to learning the skills necessary for healthy communication, and to growing spiritually through the lived reality of married life.

This resource emphasizes ways to counter cultural trends that are detrimental to permanent marriage and a strong family life while covering such crucial topics as self-awareness, conflict resolution, forgiveness, the stages of a relationship, and intimacy. Each chapter concludes with reflection and sharing questions that encourage dialogue and discussion between spouses.

Courage to Love...will be welcomed not only by couples struggling with the difficulties of married life, but by marriage counselors, family life directors, and various marriage ministries as well.