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10 Best Books To Help Restore Your Marriage

ByLinda Rooks

WHERE CAN YOU FIND help to restore your marriage? This is a question I’ve been asked many times.  The right kind of counselor can certainly help. However, you need to make sure it indeed is the right kind of counselor as I describe in my book, Fighting for Your Marriage while Separated.  There are great programs that can help too if there’s one in your community or if you’re able to travel. But what if you want help right now? You don’t want to wait. You want to restore your marriage, and you want to start the process now!

There are a number of excellent books that can help in this process. Even if you’re not a reader, many of them have audio versions too. The books in the following list are ones I have personally read. Each approaches restoration from a different angle, but each one offers excellent insights and tools that can help restore your marriage.

For more specific situations, there are other good books I recommend too. But if your marriage is in crisis these are ones that can help you now. For further suggestions check out my links page on brokenheartonhold.com

Book jacket with man and woman on the beachThe Five Love Languages: The Secret To Love That Lasts and How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate, by Gary Chapman.Book jacket with 3 scenes of active couples

The DNA of Relationships for Couples: Discover how these couples found new passion, by Dr. Gregg Smalley and Dr. Robert S. Paul.

Yellow book cover with the word marriage in red with a line separating the two r's Fighting for Your Marriage while Separated: A Practical Guide for Reconciling a Separated Marriage, by Linda W. Rooks.Book jacket with picture of heart

Vertical Marriage: The One Secret That Will Change Your Marriage, by Dave and Ann Wilson.

Book jacket with picture of a pen drawing a line in the middle of the word boundariesBoundaries in Marriage: Understanding the Choices that Make or Break Loving Relationships, by Henry Cloud and John Townsend.

Broken Heart on Hold, Surviving Separation: The Book cover with woman gazing into a cup in her handsfriend readers will turn to again and again to strengthen their hearts on their difficult journey of separation, by Linda W. Rooks.

Book jacket with a blur of colors beneath the words 9 lies9 Lies That Will Destroy Your Marriage. . . And The Truths That Will Save It and Set It Free, by Robert Paul and Gregg Smalley.Book jacket with red ring around the words Sacred marriage

Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy Rather Than to Make Us Happy? by Gary Thomas.

Yellow book cover with a person sitting on groundYour Marriage Can Be Saved: 12 Truths for Rescuing Your Relationship, by Joe and Michelle Williams.

His Needs, Her Needs: Making Book cover showing hands reaching across to each otherRomantic Love Last (How to Identify and Satisfy 10 Vital Needs in Your Marriage: A Practical Relationship Guide for Couples), by Willard F. Harley.

Sometimes one book is all you need to illumine your path forward and help restore your marriage. But often, the input from more than one authority in the field will build upon one another and strengthen your ability to move towards a fuller restoration and a happier outcome.

God bless you with hope and healing as you travel this path to restore your marriage.

 

 

 

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