The Emotionally Destructive Marriage: How to Find Your Voice and Reclaim Your Hope

Leslie Vernick

Sep 2013 · Sold by WaterBrook

About this ebook

Something Has to Change…
 
You can’t put it into words, but something is happening to you. Your stomach churns, your heart aches, and the tension in your marriage is making you feel weary and a little crazy. The constant criticism, disrespect, cruelty, deceit, and gross indifference are eroding your confidence and breaking your spirit.    
 
For any woman caught in an emotionally destructive marriage, Leslie Vernick offers a personalized path forward. Based on decades of counseling experience, her intensely practical, biblical advice will show you how to establish boundaries and break free from emotional abuse. Learn to:
 
·         identify damaging behaviors
·         gain the skills to respond wisely
·         promote healthy change
·         stay safe
·         understand when, why, and even how to leave
·         recognize that God sees and hates what is happening to you
 
Trying harder to be a perfect fantasy wife won’t help fix what’s wrong your marriage. Discover instead how you can initiate effective changes to stop the cycle of destruction and restore hope for the future.
 
“Women in an emotionally abusive marriage do not need another book on how to have a good marriage; those books rub salt in raw wounds. No, they desperately need this book so that they can diagnose just how bad their marriage is and then, with Leslie’s clear expertise, develop a plan that will either begin to turn their marriage around...or give them a wise route of escape.”
—Dee Brestin, author of Idol Lies and The Friendships of Women

Ratings and reviews

Anyone can say that if they're not getting their way or aren't happy about something that they're being emotionally abused. I went through that with my ex-wife. I loved her and still love her. But when someone is convinced of something like this its impossible most times to prove it one way or another. But a woman saying this just as a way to get out of the marriage is bogus!!

The book has been the best instrument for me to help those in marriage crises. I thank the author for nailing it on the head when some people do wrong things to destroy their marriages and blame the other partner than looking at self first

This book was the hope and direction that I needed! Both for the potential rescue of my marriage, and the guarenteed rescue of myself inside of my marriage. Validation and Godly counsel. It helped me so much.

About the author

Leslie Vernick is licensed clinical social worker and relationship coach. For more than thirty years, she has helped individuals, couples, and families heal, rebuild, or grow their relationships. A popular author and speaker, she has written several books, including How to Act Right When Your Spouse Acts Wrong and the bestseller, The Emotionally Destructive Relationship.