12 Best Marriage & Family, Family & Relationships Books
Marriage & Family, Family & Relationships is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Marriage & Family, Family & Relationships audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 12 Marriage & Family, Family & Relationships audiobooks below.
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The Ultimate Guide for Gay Dads
- By: Eric Rosswood
- Narrator: Richard Powers
- Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.29(75 ratings)
4.29(75 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDAre you ready to have kids? More and more gay men are turning to adoption and surrogacy to start their own families. An estimated two million American LBGTQ people would like to adopt and an estimated 65,000 adopted children are living with a gayAre you ready to have kids? More and more gay men are turning to adoption and surrogacy to start their own families. An estimated two million American LBGTQ people would like to adopt and an estimated 65,000 adopted children are living with a gay parent. In 2016, the Chicago Tribune reported that ten to twenty percent of donor eggs went to gay men expanding their families via surrogacy, and in many places the numbers were up fifty percent from the previous five years.
Having a kid is like coming out all over again, on a daily basis, especially if you have an infant. Was coming out stressful for you? It’s about to get more intense and you will have a child watching your every move and listening to your every word. If you stutter or pause, they may pick up on your discomfort and could start to feel like something is wrong about their family unit. The Ultimate Guide for Gay Dads is jam-packed with parenting tips and advice to help you build confidence and become the awesome gay dad you were meant to be!
Unlike other parenting books that have whole chapters focusing on things specifically related to mothers (such as how to get the perfect latch when breastfeeding), this parenting book replaces those sections with things relevant to gay dads. It covers topics like how to find LGBT-friendly pediatricians, how to find LGBT-friendly schools, how to childproof your home with style, how to answer awkward and prying questions about your family from strangers, examples for what two-dad families can do on Mother’s Day, and much more. The book also includes parenting tips and advice from pediatricians, school educators, lawyers, and other same-sex parents.
Bestselling author Eric Rosswood covers every aspect of fatherhood for gay men in this essential guide to growing your family in the post-DOMA era.
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The Mediterranean Love Plan
- By: Stephen Arterburn
- Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: April 04, 2017
- Language: English
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4.29(51 ratings)
4.29(51 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDThe Mediterranean Love Plan unveils the “7 Secrets of Passion” from some of the most romantic countries in the world:  Italy, France, Spain, Greece and Israel.   Most couples marry in a flurry of passion, but soon findThe Mediterranean Love Plan unveils the “7 Secrets of Passion” from some of the most romantic countries in the world:  Italy, France, Spain, Greece and Israel.  
Most couples marry in a flurry of passion, but soon find themselves wondering “How do we keep love interesting, fun and romantic?  How do we keep the spark growing for decades?”
Steve and Misty Arterburn offer unique, ground-breaking answers to these age-old questions.
Romance is much more than a date night out or a week away.¬† A passionate, long-lasting love requires two people who are sensually in love with life and each other. In this fascinating book, the authors explore research on seven activities that prompt passion, then describe how Mediterranean cultures practice these secrets in everyday life. Steve and Misty also share how these fun-to-apply secrets have taken their own marriage from confused to confident, from discouraged to delighted‚Äì and how you can do it too.¬†¬† The Mediterranean Love Plan will help couples become more playful, creative, connected and romantic — burning with passion that stands the test of time.
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We Live for the We
- By: Dani McClain
- Narrator: Dani McClain
- Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 02, 2019
- Language: English
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4.28(260 ratings)
4.28(260 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDA warm, wise, and urgent guide to parenting in uncertain times, from a longtime reporter on race, reproductive health, and politics In We Live for the We, first-time mother Dani McClain sets out to understand how to raise her daughter in what she,A warm, wise, and urgent guide to parenting in uncertain times, from a longtime reporter on race, reproductive health, and politics
In We Live for the We, first-time mother Dani McClain sets out to understand how to raise her daughter in what she, as a black woman, knows to be an unjust — even hostile — society. Black women are more likely to die during pregnancy or birth than any other race; black mothers must stand before television cameras telling the world that their slain children were human beings. What, then, is the best way to keep fear at bay and raise a child so she lives with dignity and joy?
McClain spoke with mothers on the frontlines of movements for social, political, and cultural change who are grappling with the same questions. Following a child’s development from infancy to the teenage years, We Live for the We touches on everything from the importance of creativity to building a mutually supportive community to navigating one’s relationship with power and authority. It is an essential handbook to help us imagine the society we build for the next generation.
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Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be A-Holes
- By: Karen Alpert
- Narrator: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 27, 2021
- Language: English
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4.28(219 ratings)
4.28(219 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.003.99 USDDo you ever feel like you’re failing miserably at parenting? Do your kids keep acting like douchenuggets no matter what you do? Then this book is for you. From the creator of Baby Sideburns and I Heart My Little A-Holes (and the creator of twoDo you ever feel like you’re failing miserably at parenting? Do your kids keep acting like douchenuggets no matter what you do? Then this book is for you.
From the creator of Baby Sideburns and I Heart My Little A-Holes (and the creator of two kids who once were little a-holes but are slowly turning into awesome human beings), Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be A-Holes is a hilariously honest parenting guide written by a regular mom who doesn‚Äôt always know WTF she‚Äôs doing. Just like you.
Featuring side-splittingly funny pictures, stories, and chapters like:- You Are Not Your Kiddo’s Servant‚Äã
- Picasso’s Mom Didn’t Tell Him to Draw the Eyes in the Right Place
- Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones But Words Will Cost Thousands in Therapy
- If They Say “I Hate You,” Then You’re Probably Doing It Right
Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be A-Holes will make you laugh, cry, laugh until you cry, and feel like you‚Äôre having coffee (and a little sumpin’ in it) with a best friend who has some of the answers to THE hardest job on earth: parenting. And maybe, just maybe, it might help you get the a-hole out of your kids*
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The Road to Love and Laughter
- By: Kristin Adams
- Length: 4 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: July 20, 2021
- Language: English
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4.14(18 ratings)
4.14(18 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDWhat’s the secret to keeping love alive and full of laughter? Kristin and Danny Adams, the couple behind numerous hilarious viral lip sync videos, draw from their own experience in marriage and entertainment to encourage you to live loudly,What’s the secret to keeping love alive and full of laughter? Kristin and Danny Adams, the couple behind numerous hilarious viral lip sync videos, draw from their own experience in marriage and entertainment to encourage you to live loudly, love radically, and laugh uncontrollably.
Every relationship needs plenty of love and laughter. But how do you keep the fun going when the road gets hard? Viral video creators Kristin and Danny Adams’s journey has involved more “heated fellowship” than their hilarious lip sync videos might lead you to think. Kristin and Danny invite you to:
- Turn roadblocks into opportunities for growth, wisdom, and even laughter
- Have faith in God to sustain you in difficult times and bring back your joy
- Let go of the fear of change and find courage to face all of life together
- Face the “laugh blockers” that get in the way of the joy of connection
Rediscover the joy of your unique connection for a deeper and more fulfilling marriage journey.
“You will come away changed. . . . This is a must-read!” — Jefferson and Alyssa Bethke
“With humor and so much wisdom, this story will leave you inspired and feeling like you’re not alone.” — Jeremy and Audrey Roloff
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For the Love
- By: Jen Hatmaker
- Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: August 18, 2015
- Language: English
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4.07(24858 ratings)
4.07(24858 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDFor the Love¬†is now a¬†New York Times¬†bestseller! Don’t miss Jen’s latest title, also a¬†New York Times¬†bestseller,¬†Of Mess & Moxie. Best-selling author Jen Hatmaker is convinced life can be lovely and fun andFor the Love¬†is now a¬†New York Times¬†bestseller! Don’t miss Jen’s latest title, also a¬†New York Times¬†bestseller,¬†Of Mess & Moxie.
Best-selling author Jen Hatmaker is convinced life can be lovely and fun and courageous and kind.¬†She reveals with humor and style how Jesus‚Äô embarrassing grace is the key to dealing with life’s biggest challenge: people. The majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, go to church with, don‚Äôt like, don‚Äôt understand, fear, compare ourselves to, and judge. Jen knows how the squeeze of this life can make us competitive and judgmental, how we can lose love for others and then for ourselves. She reveals how to:
- Break free of guilt and shame by dismantling the unattainable Pinterest life.
- Learn to engage our culture’s controversial issues with a grace-first approach.
- Be liberated to love and release the burden of always being right. 
- Identify the tools you already have to develop real-life, all-in, know-my-junk-but-love-me-anyway friendships.
- Escape our impossible standards for parenting and marriage by accepting the standard of “mostly good.”
- Laugh your butt off.
In this raucous ride to freedom for modern women, Jen Hatmaker bares the refreshing wisdom, wry humor, no-nonsense faith, liberating insight, and fearless honesty that have made her beloved by women worldwide.
For the Love¬†is also available in Spanish, Por el amor de …
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The Vanishing American Adult
- By: Ben Sasse
- Narrator: Ben Sasse
- Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: May 16, 2017
- Language: English
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4.03(5107 ratings)
4.03(5107 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“Former college president and now U.S. Senator Ben Sasse reads with the clarity and confidence of a voice pro in this friendly warning aimed at America’s parents, teachers, and governing officials.” — AudioFile Magazine AN“Former college president and now U.S. Senator Ben Sasse reads with the clarity and confidence of a voice pro in this friendly warning aimed at America’s parents, teachers, and governing officials.” — AudioFile Magazine
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — read by the author.
In an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented election, the country’s youth are in crisis. Senator Ben Sasse warns the nation about the existential threat to America’s future.
Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents and coddled by well-meaning but misbegotten government programs, America’s youth are ill-equipped to survive in our highly-competitive global economy.
Many of the coming-of-age rituals that have defined the American experience since the Founding: learning the value of working with your hands, leaving home to start a family, becoming economically self-reliant–are being delayed or skipped altogether. The statistics are daunting: 30% of college students drop out after the first year, and only 4 in 10 graduate. One in three 18-to-34 year-olds live with their parents.
From these disparate phenomena: Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse who as president of a Midwestern college observed the trials of this generation up close, sees an existential threat to the American way of life.
In The Vanishing American Adult, Sasse diagnoses the causes of a generation that can’t grow up and offers a path for raising children to become active and engaged citizens. He identifies core formative experiences that all young people should pursue: hard work to appreciate the benefits of labor, travel to understand deprivation and want, the power of reading, the importance of nurturing your body–and explains how parents can encourage them.
Our democracy depends on responsible, contributing adults to function properly–without them America falls prey to populist demagogues. A call to arms, The Vanishing American Adult will ignite a much-needed debate about the link between the way we’re raising our children and the future of our country.
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Of Mess and Moxie
- By: Jen Hatmaker
- Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: August 08, 2017
- Language: English
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4.01(14923 ratings)
4.01(14923 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDLife is messy for each of us. But Jen Hatmaker reminds us that it’s okay to admit that we’re all in the same boat. Join¬†New York Times¬†bestselling author and honorary big sister Jen as she shares hilarious tales, shamelessLife is messy for each of us. But Jen Hatmaker reminds us that it’s okay to admit that we’re all in the same boat. Join¬†New York Times¬†bestselling author and honorary big sister Jen as she shares hilarious tales, shameless honesty, and unconditional hope for the woman who’s forgotten her moxie.
We will endure discouragement, heartbreak, failure, and suffering. All of us. And more than once. But we are the very same folks who can experience triumph, perseverance, joy, and rebirth. More than once. And in more than one category. And in more than one season. And that? That’s moxie.
Moxie reaches for laughter, for courage, for the deep and important truth that women are capable of weathering the storm. We are not victims, we are not weak, we are not a sad, defeated group of sob sisters. Yes, life is hard, but we are incredibly resilient.
Of Mess and Moxie¬†shines a light on Jen’s own triumphs and tragedies into a sigh of relief for all normal, fierce women everywhere. Whether it’s the time she drove to the wrong city for a fourth-grade field trip¬†or the way she learned to truly forgive, she offers a reminder to those of us who sometimes hide in the car eating crackers that we do actually have the moxie to get back up and face our messes head-on. After all, this race is not a contest–there’s enough abundance to go around.
This book will give you the encouragement you need to remember that:
- Your mess is normal
- You are not in competition with your peers–your seat at the table is secure
- You have incredible gifts to offer
Come alongside Jen as she teaches us that we can all choose to live undaunted and in the moment, no matter what the moments hold, and we really can lead vibrant, courageous, grace-filled lives.
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Ask Me What’s for Dinner One More Time
- By: Meredith Masony
- Narrator: Meredith Masony
- Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.84(648 ratings)
3.84(648 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDFrom the founder of That’s Inappropriate–one of the most popular parenting blogs on the web–comes a hilarious, genuine, and relatable essay collection on the ups and downs of motherhood. Meredith Masony founded That’sFrom the founder of That’s Inappropriate–one of the most popular parenting blogs on the web–comes a hilarious, genuine, and relatable essay collection on the ups and downs of motherhood.
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Meredith Masony founded That’s Inappropriate in 2014 as an innocent and humorous way to chronicle her chaotic days as a working mom, child wrangler, and busy wife. It soon evolved into a massive, dynamic community of parents–now nearly three million strong–brought together by their shared belief that parenthood and marriage don’t have to be perfect.
Now, in Ask Me What’s for Dinner One More Time, Meredith shares her collection of witty essays on the universal frustrations of being a mom in today’s world, presenting her laugh-out-loud perspective on sex, aging, anxiety, friendship, and much more. Perfect for fans of Jenny Lawson, Laura Clery, and Jen Mann, these essays provide laughter, relief, validation, and “a metaphorical hug for all of those moments you spend crying on your bathroom floor, thinking that you are failing at the hardest job on the planet.” -
The Sh!t No One Tells You About Pregnancy
- By: Dawn Dais
- Narrator: Dawn Dais
- Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 07, 2017
- Language: English
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3.54(539 ratings)
3.54(539 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDThe fourth book in Dawn Dais’s popular Sh!t No One Tells You series offers honest and “laugh out loud” (Parents) advice for expectant parentsPregnancy is about more than scanning Pinterest for baby shower themes and registering forThe fourth book in Dawn Dais’s popular Sh!t No One Tells You series offers honest and “laugh out loud” (Parents) advice for expectant parents
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Pregnancy is about more than scanning Pinterest for baby shower themes and registering for ironic onesies. Sometimes, the less flattering aspects of gestation can dim a bit of that so-called pregnancy glow. Not to worry! Dawn Dais is here, ready to shepherd readers through the experience of one human body taking on the task of growing another human body. (Spoiler alert: It’s not always pretty.)
Dawn covers it all, sharing expert lists, tips, warnings, and even a series of Parent-Training Workouts designed to increase readers’ tolerance to the various indignities of parenthood, like peeing with an audience and surviving an afternoon in Chuck E. Cheese. The Sh!t No One Tells You About Pregnancy is a must-have guide for expectant moms (and their partners!) who are looking for some counsel, comedy, and camaraderie during their ultimate countdown to parenthood. -
My Mother Next Door
- By: Diane Danvers Simmons
- Narrator: Diane Danvers Simmons
- Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDIt’s hardly newsworthy when a man walks out on his family. But it’s rather unusual for a mother to walk out, leaving the father to bring up their sixteen-year-old daughter–and downright scandalous for said Irish Catholic mother toIt’s hardly newsworthy when a man walks out on his family. But it’s rather unusual for a mother to walk out, leaving the father to bring up their sixteen-year-old daughter–and downright scandalous for said Irish Catholic mother to move into the house next door to start a new life with a bunch of hot male students at the age of sixty.
No one can accuse Diane Danvers Simmons of telling a familiar story. Instead she offers a wickedly witty, candid, irreverent, British coming-of-age story with a fresh take on maternal abandonment. In My Mother Next Door she shares the life lessons learned growing up in the revolutionary 1970s while her narcissistic mother charted her own unfathomable course to independence and freedom.
After living in America for decades and becoming a mother herself, Diane journeys back through the madness of her early years, coming to terms with a comical, painful family history, but also celebrating the strength and humor it has given her to face the absurdity of life. In trying to understand what drove her mother to become the woman next door, Diane discovers new respect, love, and even forgiveness: the root of our humanity.
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How Are We Still Married?! Volume 1
- By: Beth Albright
- Narrator: Beth Albright
- Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDFrom Hollywood to New York to Alabama and everywhere in between, Beth Albright and Ted Ishler have lived all over the US pursuing their TV, acting, and writing dreams. Married thirty-five years and moving thirty-five times, the crazy stories ofFrom Hollywood to New York to Alabama and everywhere in between, Beth Albright and Ted Ishler have lived all over the US pursuing their TV, acting, and writing dreams.
Married thirty-five years and moving thirty-five times, the crazy stories of their life together will keep you laughing as they try to figure out How Are We Still Married?
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