25 Best Marriage, Family & Relationships Books
Marriage, Family & Relationships is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Marriage, Family & Relationships audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 25 Marriage, Family & Relationships audiobooks below.
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The Good Guy’s Guide to Great Sex
- By: Sheila Wray Gregoire
- Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: March 15, 2022
- Language: English
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4.66(117 ratings)
4.66(117 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDRead by the authors. If you ever wonder, Is this all there is to sex? or I wish I knew how to help my wife enjoy this more, you’ll appreciate this straightforward, helpful, and faith-based advice on how to have a better sex life. Based onRead by the authors.
If you ever wonder, Is this all there is to sex? or I wish I knew how to help my wife enjoy this more, you’ll appreciate this straightforward, helpful, and faith-based advice on how to have a better sex life.
Based on groundbreaking surveys of more than twenty-five thousand people, this highly practical, research-based book shows guys how to rock their wife’s world. The Good Guy’s Guide to Great Sex from popular marriage blogger and speaker Sheila Wray Gregoire and her husband, Dr. Keith Gregoire, will help you:
- Discover what your wife wants most from you in the bedroom
- Realize what can¬†derail a couple’s sex life and how to get it back on track
- Find healing from past trauma, previous relationships, and porn addiction
- Understand your own sex drive and how to keep it revved
- Learn the secrets to giving your wife the most fulfilling sex she’s ever had
This can-we-start-tonight? book about making sex wonderful explores how emotional, spiritual, and physical intimacy all work together. It will appeal to:
- Newly engaged couples who want to start their marriage off right
- Married couples who wonder if sex will ever become what they hoped it would be
- Readers and listeners¬†of The Good Girl’s Guide to Great Sex
- Pastors and counselors seeking a resource for helping engaged and married couples
The Good Guy’s Guide to Great Sex also features Couple Projects at the end of each chapter and very specific “Good Guy Dares” to help you woo your wife in and out of the bedroom as you find your way to a delightful, God-given passion.
Discussion questions and accompanying charts are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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A Woman’s Influence
- By: Tony A. Gaskins
- Narrator: Tony A. Gaskins
- Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.49(104 ratings)
4.49(104 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDFrom celebrity life coach and motivational speaker, Tony Gaskins Jr. and his wife, Sheri, comes an essential guide with hard-hitting truths about a woman’s undeniable influence on a relationship–and the power she has to change her manFrom celebrity life coach and motivational speaker, Tony Gaskins Jr. and his wife, Sheri, comes an essential guide with hard-hitting truths about a woman’s undeniable influence on a relationship–and the power she has to change her man for the better.
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Tony Gaskins has inspired others by sharing his truth–drawing millions of followers online and making him one of America’s foremost experts on love and relationships. Now, he and his wife explore a woman’s positive impact on a relationship in this practical and accessible guide that walks you through a series of irreplaceable lessons on making personal changes that foster healthy relationships. Tony and his wife, Sheri, draw on their own relationship successes and failures as they examine the eighteen time-tested truths about how a woman’s influence can shift a relationship for the better–if used correctly.
Including advice for women such as “you are not a maid,” “show don’t tell,” and the “72-hour rule”–where the woman makes herself totally unreachable to her partner–Tony and Sheri tackle all of today’s important topics such as misogyny and the “grown boy syndrome,” while never losing the empowering and empathetic tone that Tony’s loyal following has come to love and trust.
Whether you are single, dating, engaged, or married, A Woman’s Influence is a hopeful response to a culture where men behave badly and women are victimized all too often. By providing a vision that empowers women to know their worth and simultaneously bring out the best in men, this guidebook can help you make a lasting, positive change to your relationship. -
A New Season
- By: Al Robertson
- Narrator: Al Robertson
- Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.34(325 ratings)
4.34(325 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDAlan and Lisa Robertson, members of America’s favorite back woods family and the Duck Commander Clan, take on the topic of relationships as they share the secrets that saved their marriage.Infidelity, deceit, distrust, and shame.Alan and Lisa Robertson, members of America’s favorite back woods family and the Duck Commander Clan, take on the topic of relationships as they share the secrets that saved their marriage.
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Infidelity, deceit, distrust, and shame. Unfortunately, these are recurring themes in many of today’s marriages in America–even in the family-values-promoting, Christian-based Robertson family.
With a romance that began in junior high, the couple got off to a rocky start but soon settled into married life and had two baby girls. Alan became a pastor in the church where his family had been members for years. Then, when Lisa had an affair, the heartache and the tension was very public.
But this is not a book about a marriage gone wrong. It is a candid story of rescued love and renewed commitment. After nearly getting divorced, Alan and Lisa came to terms with what went wrong in their marriage and both began the hard work of making it right. Now married for twenty-nine years, Alan and Lisa counsel couples in trouble and speak across the country–openly sharing their hardships, their journey to renewed commitment, and a thriving marriage. -
Mom vs. Dad
- By: Lucy Riles
- Narrator: Lucy Riles
- Length: 5 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 17, 2020
- Language: English
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4.27(26 ratings)
4.27(26 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDThe hilarious husband and wife team behind the massive online communities “Life of Mom” and “Life of Dad” share honest advice and contrasting perspectives about marriage and parenting with their millions of followers.While aThe hilarious husband and wife team behind the massive online communities “Life of Mom” and “Life of Dad” share honest advice and contrasting perspectives about marriage and parenting with their millions of followers.... Read more
While a husband and wife’s parenting styles may be worlds apart, they both have the same goal: to raise happy kids who feel unconditionally loved. Mom vs. Dad is packed with sidesplitting and vulnerable personal essays from the trenches of parenthood. In this book, Lucy and Tom Riles tackle relatable topics such as:- Is bringing a toaster oven to a 5-star resort tacky or genius?
- Is it appropriate to lick your plate clean at a restaurant?
- Does the expiration date on food really matter?
Illustrations of family life will also be included in this intimate and inspiring narrative about the challenges and triumphs of raising children. Mom vs. Dad is the perfect gift for anyone who needs a relatable couple to guide them through some of the toughest (and funniest) issues parents face today. -
The Marriage Spirit
- By: Evelyn Moschetta
- Narrator: Paul Moschetta
- Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 1998
- Language: English
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4.25(3 ratings)
4.25(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0010.95 USDNothing in life equals the steady thrill, the calm excitement of being in a good marriage. This requires much more than a vague idea of love. In The Marriage Spirit, Drs. Evelyn and Paul Moschetta unveil a new kind of intimacy: spiritual intimacy,Nothing in life equals the steady thrill, the calm excitement of being in a good marriage. This requires much more than a vague idea of love. In The Marriage Spirit, Drs. Evelyn and Paul Moschetta unveil a new kind of intimacy: spiritual intimacy, where partners share a love that connects them soul to soul.
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In The Marriage Spirit, these contributing editors of the famous Ladies Home Journal column “Can This Marriage Be Saved?” teach couples how to transcend companionship in order to experience extraordinary love and passion. So many of us try to fix our marriages by focusing on psychological or sexual healing, never considering the state of our souls. Marriage, say the Moschettas, is a sacred place, one where egos fade into the background and the spiritual self emerges. They have developed several steps to help couples create a deeper, stronger union:
¬ï Creating Marriage’s Strongest Bond — Unquestioned Trust
¬ï Rediscovering Each Other — Renewing Reverence
¬ï Becoming Your Best Self — Your Spiritual Self
• Soul-Centered Love
• Defusing Anger
With The Marriage Spirit, learn to have the power to create a love that will expand your horizons, enrich your being, and inspire you to soar with your spouse to heights you never thought possible. -
Marriage: From Surviving to Thriving
- By: Charles R. Swindoll
- Narrator: Charles R. Swindoll
- Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: July 02, 2006
- Language: English
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4.12(72 ratings)
4.12(72 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDThe world has changed, and it’s going to keep changing. That’s no big revelation, but we cling to the fleeting hope that we can return to the gentler, more stable days gone by . . . especially where our marriages are concerned. But theThe world has changed, and it’s going to keep changing.
That’s no big revelation, but we cling to the fleeting hope that we can return to the gentler, more stable days gone by . . . especially where our marriages are concerned. But the truth is, we can’t, because as the world changes, so do we, and so do our marriages.
Let’s face it: marriage and the home have altered drastically through the years. Men afraid to be men. Women ashamed of being women. Children unsure of who’s in charge. Blended and not-so-well-blended families. Homes that have become battlegrounds. And all of it so unstable, so temporary.
In the face of these depressing facts, beloved pastor and Bible teacher Chuck Swindoll offers a refreshing dose of hope and practical help for marriage. His sage advice, based on the Bible and his own fifty-year marriage, shows us how to move our marriages from just surviving to actually thriving. And that target can be hit dead-center if we rely on God and His Word as our marriage counselor, our guide, our glue.
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How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids
- By: Jancee Dunn
- Narrator: Jancee Dunn
- Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 21, 2017
- Language: English
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4.1(4503 ratings)
4.1(4503 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.98 USD“Get this for your pregnant friends, or yourself” (People): a hilariously candid account of one woman’s quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, with life-changing, real-world advice. Recommended by Nicole Cliffe“Get this for your pregnant friends, or yourself” (People): a hilariously candid account of one woman’s quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, with life-changing, real-world advice.- Recommended by Nicole Cliffe in Slate
- Featured in People Picks
- A Red Tricycle Best Baby and Toddler Parenting Book of the Year
- One of Mother magazine’s favorite parenting books of the Year
How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids tackles the last taboo subject of parenthood: the startling, white-hot fury that new (and not-so-new) mothers often have for their mates. After Jancee Dunn had her baby, she found that she was doing virtually all the household chores, even though she and her husband worked equal hours. She asked herself: How did I become the ‘expert’ at changing a diaper?Many expectant parents spend weeks researching the best crib or safest car seat, but spend little if any time thinking about the titanic impact the baby will have on their marriage – and the way their marriage will affect their child.
Enter Dunn, her well-meaning but blithely unhelpful husband, their daughter, and her boisterous extended family, who show us the ways in which outmoded family patterns and traditions thwart the overworked, overloaded parents of today.
On the brink of marital Armageddon, Dunn plunges into the latest relationship research, solicits the counsel of the country’s most renowned couples’ and sex therapists, canvasses fellow parents, and even consults an FBI hostage negotiator on how to effectively contain an “explosive situation.” Instead of having the same fights over and over, Dunn and her husband must figure out a way to resolve their larger issues and fix their family while there is still time. As they discover, adding a demanding new person to your relationship means you have to reevaluate — and rebuild — your marriage. In an exhilarating twist, they work together to save the day, happily returning to the kind of peaceful life they previously thought was the sole province of couples without children.
Part memoir, part self-help book with actionable and achievable advice, How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids is an eye-opening look at how the man who got you into this position in this first place is the ally you didn’t know you had.
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Black Women, Black Love
- By: Dianne M Stewart
- Narrator: Tracey Leigh
- Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 06, 2020
- Language: English
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4.06(94 ratings)
4.06(94 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDIn this analysis of social history, examine the complex lineage of America’s oppression of Black companionship.According to the 2010 US census, more than seventy percent of Black women in America are unmarried. Black Women, Black Love reveals... Read moreIn this analysis of social history, examine the complex lineage of America’s oppression of Black companionship.According to the 2010 US census, more than seventy percent of Black women in America are unmarried. Black Women, Black Love reveals how four centuries of laws, policies, and customs have created that crisis.Dianne Stewart begins in the colonial era, when slave owners denied Blacks the right to marry, divided families, and, in many cases, raped enslaved women and girls. Later, during Reconstruction and the ensuing decades, violence split up couples again as millions embarked on the Great Migration north, where the welfare system mandated that women remain single in order to receive government support. And no institution has forbidden Black love as effectively as the prison-industrial complex, which removes Black men en masse from the pool of marriageable partners.Prodigiously researched and deeply felt, Black Women, Black Love reveals how white supremacy has systematically broken the heart of Black America, and it proposes strategies for dismantling the structural forces that have plagued Black love and marriage for centuries. -
31 Days to Great Sex
- By: Sheila Wray Gregoire
- Length: 4 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: July 14, 2020
- Language: English
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4.05(160 ratings)
4.05(160 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDThis practical audiobook provides 31 days of challenges to help you and your spouse talk, flirt, and explore all three levels of sexual intimacy–physical, emotional, and spiritual–so you both can experience the best sex ever. Sex isThis practical audiobook provides 31 days of challenges to help you and your spouse talk, flirt, and explore all three levels of sexual intimacy–physical, emotional, and spiritual–so you both can experience the best sex ever.
Sex is incredibly important in a marriage, yet many things can throw it off course. Whether you are engaged and afraid you won’t be able to light the spark, are newlyweds who haven’t started off well, or have been married five, ten, twenty-five years, or more and you’d like to recapture the spark you once had, this audiobook is for you!
The challenges aim to spice up the bedroom while guiding you through all three levels of sexual intimacy. As you go through these challenges with lots of laughter and enjoyment, sex will stop being a source of tension and become something fun that brings you together, just the way God intended. 
The challenges slowly build on each other to help you:
- Turn sex into something positive
- Understand each other’s sexual drives
- Debunk Hollywood myths and expectations about sex
- Hit the reset button on your sex life
- Make little changes that have big rewards
- Try new things–and spice things up
- And keep the momentum going!
You’re meant to have an abundant marriage–so don’t settle for mediocre. Start your 31-day journey today!
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The Dance of Intimacy
- By: Harriet Lerner
- Narrator: Harriet Lerner
- Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 11, 2004
- Language: English
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4.02(9065 ratings)
4.02(9065 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0013.99 USDThe Dance of Intimacy takes a careful look at relationships where intimacy is most challenged by too much emotional distance, too much intensity, or simply too much pain. In clear, direct and dramatic terms, Dr. Lerner illustrates how we can moveThe Dance of Intimacy takes a careful look at relationships where intimacy is most challenged by too much emotional distance, too much intensity, or simply too much pain. In clear, direct and dramatic terms, Dr. Lerner illustrates how we can move differently in these relationships — be they with a distant or unfaithful spouse, a depressed sister, a difficult mother, an alcoholic father, an uncommitted lover, a dying parent, or an estranged family member.And she teaches us about “the differences that make a difference” — the changes we can make in one or two significant relationships that will affect our capacity for intimacy and selfhood for a lifetime.
The Dance of Intimacy offers no “quick fix” for the human dilemma that we all confront. Instead, Dr. Lerner offers us the most solid, respectful, and helpful insights on intimate relationships that both men and women may ever encounter. Picking up where the best-selling The Dance of Anger left off, Dr. Lerner redefines the meaning of intimacy for today, and shows how good relationships can be strengthened and difficult ones healed.
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The Executive Marriage Solution
- By: Lisa M. Webb
- Narrator: Marnye Young
- Length: 3 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4(4 ratings)
4(4 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDAre you and your spouse struggling to connect and find common ground? Do your obligations as a high-ranking executive make it difficult to achieve work-life balance? If more time is spent on work pursuits than our intimate relationships, this timeAre you and your spouse struggling to connect and find common ground? Do your obligations as a high-ranking executive make it difficult to achieve work-life balance? If more time is spent on work pursuits than our intimate relationships, this time investment can become fertile ground for affairs, whether physical, emotional, or both. By allocating investments in intimate relationships, similar to how investments are made in business and professionally, both your personal and your professional lives can flourish. When it comes to intimate relationships and career, it isn’t all or nothing.
In The Executive Marriage Solution, Dr. Lisa Webb shares practical ways that spouses and partners can apply proven business strategies to strengthen their bond. This amazing audiobook will teach you how to
identify root causes of relationship struggles,overcome barriers to sharing work life,take responsibility for your actions in the relationship,reevaluate your priorities and objectives,examine where you are currently so you can set feasible goals for the future, andapply economic concepts like gap analysis and opportunity cost in the context of your personal relationships.
One key to finding balance is to invest as much energy in your marriage and family as you do in your professional life. Family and career? Yes, you can have them both!
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The Act of Marriage
- By: Tim LaHaye
- Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: July 22, 2025
- Language: English
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3.97(2219 ratings)
3.97(2219 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDOVER 2.5 MILLION COPIES IN PRINT Discover the secrets to new joy and sexual fulfillment in marriage that have helped millions of Christian couples maximize their intimacy. Here are the insights into your spouse’s body, psychosexual makeup, andOVER 2.5 MILLION COPIES IN PRINT
Discover the secrets to new joy and sexual fulfillment in marriage that have helped millions of Christian couples maximize their intimacy.
Here are the insights into your spouse’s body, psychosexual makeup, and need for tender, unselfish affection that can help you discover new depths of intimacy. It’s the perfect book for:
- Engaged couples and newlyweds who want to make lovemaking a joy from the start
- Couples who have been married for years and want to maintain the flame or rekindle the embers
- Every husband or wife who wants to be a better lover
The Act of Marriage enriches you and your spouse’s physical relationship by offering biblical principles, goals, guidelines, and charts that cover an array of vital topics, such as:
- The sanctity of sex
- What sex means to a woman
- What sex means to a man
- The art of lovemaking
- Sane family planning
- Practical answers to common sex questions
- And more!
Plus, this updated and expanded edition features sections that discuss “sex after sixty” and five reasons why God created sex, all supported by the very latest findings in the fields of medicine and sociology.
Accompanying figures, charts, and graphics are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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The Five Core Conversations for Couples
- By: David Bulitt
- Narrator: George Young
- Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: February 11, 2021
- Language: English
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3.9(42 ratings)
3.9(42 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDMarried for more than thirty years, David, a divorce lawyer, and Julie, a family therapist, have both been witness to families struggling with life’s most difficult challenges. At the same time, they have weathered their own challenges atMarried for more than thirty years, David, a divorce lawyer, and Julie, a family therapist, have both been witness to families struggling with life’s most difficult challenges. At the same time, they have weathered their own challenges at home: raising four daughters, two biological and two adopted, and dealing with one child’s mental health and behavioral issues. What they’ve learned about saving a marriage or knowing when to call it quits, when to turn to professionals or when to try tough love, could fill a book–and it does. The Five Core Conversations for Couples tackles every corner of relationships with the wisdom, knowledge, and best advice culled from David and Julie’s unique personal and professional experiences, organized topically into the five core reasons that people come to their offices. Topics covered include disability, abuse, serious illness, estrangement, and much much more. Take a look inside the hearts and minds of these two marriage professionals to gain a fresh perspective into your own relationships and to have valuable and more frequent conversations with those you love.
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Making Love Last Forever
- By: Gary Smalley
- Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: March 18, 2014
- Language: English
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3.84(207 ratings)
3.84(207 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDFor years Gary Smalley has helped millions of couples throughout North America enrich their relationships and deepen their bonds of love and companionship. In this extraordinary book, he shows you how to stay in love through all the stages of life.For years Gary Smalley has helped millions of couples throughout North America enrich their relationships and deepen their bonds of love and companionship. In this extraordinary book, he shows you how to stay in love through all the stages of life. From first attraction to lifelong commitment, Gary’s proven techniques and practical advice show you how to pursue and keep the love you want, and how to energize your relationship with enduring, passion-filled love.
In this book you’ll learn how to:
- Understand and use love’s best-kept secret
- Deal with the number one enemy of love
- Turn headaches into more love
- Increase your energy to keep loving
- Find the power to keep on loving your spouse
- Use normal conflicts as doorways to intimacy
- Read a woman’s built-in marriage manual twelve ways
- Divorce-proof your marriage
- Develop the five vital signs of a healthy marriage
- Respond to your partner’s number one request
- Find the powerful secret to great love
- Bring out the best in your maddening mate
With humor, empathy, and insight, Gary Smalley inspires you to fall in love with life and enjoy the deep satisfaction of a lifelong love. Down-to-earth examples, touching personal experiences, and inspiring spiritual principles will motivate you to bring about positive changes in your marriage-whether or not your mate is a willing participant. You’ll learn how to tap resources at hand to help you follow through with your journey-and make your love last forever.
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The Bitch is Back
- By: Cathi Hanauer
- Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 27, 2016
- Language: English
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3.81(487 ratings)
3.81(487 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDMore than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young woman, nine of the original contributors are back–along with sixteen captivating newMore than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young woman, nine of the original contributors are back–along with sixteen captivating new voices–sharing their ruminations from an older, stronger, and wiser perspective about love, sex, work, family, independence, body-image, health, and aging: the critical flash points of women’s lives today.
“Born out of anger,” the essays in The Bitch in the House chronicled the face of womanhood at the beginning of a new millennium. Now those funny, smart, passionate contributors–today less bitter and resentful, and more confident, competent, and content–capture the spirit of postfeminism in this equally provocative, illuminating, and compelling companion anthology.
Having aged into their forties, fifties, and sixties, these “bitches”–bestselling authors, renowned journalists, and critically acclaimed novelists–are back . . . and better than ever. In The Bitch Is Back, Cathi Hanauer, Kate Christensen, Sarah Crichton, Debora Spar, Ann Hood, Veronica Chambers, and nineteen other women offer unique views on womanhood and feminism today. Some of the “original bitches” (OBs) revisit their earlier essays to reflect on their previous selves. All reveal how their lives have changed in the intervening years–whether they stayed coupled, left marriages, or had affairs; developed cancer or other physical challenges; coped with partners who strayed, died, or remained faithful; became full-time wage earners or homemakers; opened up their marriages; remained childless or became parents; or experienced other meaningful life transitions.
As a “new wave” of feminists begins to take center stage, this powerful, timely collection sheds a much-needed light on both past and present, offering understanding, compassion, and wisdom for modern women’s lives, all the while pointing toward the exciting possibilities of tomorrow.
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Getting to 50/50
- By: Sharon Meers
- Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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3.78(160 ratings)
3.78(160 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDSharon Meers and Joanna Strober are professionals, wives, and mothers. They understand the challenges and rewards of two-career households. They also know that families thrive not in spite of working mothers but because of them. You can have a greatSharon Meers and Joanna Strober are professionals, wives, and mothers. They understand the challenges and rewards of two-career households. They also know that families thrive not in spite of working mothers but because of them. You can have a great career, a great marriage, and be a great mother. The key is tapping into your best resource and most powerful ally–the man you married.
After interviewing hundreds of parents and employers, surveying more than a thousand working mothers, and combing through the latest government and social science research, the authors have discovered that kids, husbands, and wives all reap huge benefits when couples commit to share equally as breadwinners and caregivers. Mothers work without guilt, fathers bond with their kids, and children blossom with the attention of two involved parents.
The starting point? An attitude shift that puts you on the road to 50/50–plus the positive step-by-step advice in this book.
From “baby boot camp” for new dads to exactly what to say when negotiating a leave with the boss, this savvy book is full of fresh ideas for today’s families offering encouragement, hope, and confidence to any woman who has ever questioned her choices regarding work and family.
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The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage
- By: Dr. Laura Schlessinger
- Narrator: Lily LoBianco
- Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: January 02, 2007
- Language: English
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3.71(30 ratings)
3.71(30 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDThe follow-up to her million-copy bestseller The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, Dr. Laura focuses on both partners in the relationship and reveals how to bring marriage back from the brink of disaster. Jumping off her million-copy bestsellerThe follow-up to her million-copy bestseller The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, Dr. Laura focuses on both partners in the relationship and reveals how to bring marriage back from the brink of disaster.
Jumping off her million-copy bestseller The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, Dr. Laura now exposes the sensitive and loving truth in appreciating the polarity between masculine and feminine in order to produce and sustain a wonderfully satisfying marriage. Both husband and wife have power in the relationship, and each needs to realize this in order to ensure personal satisfaction. Using real-life examples and solutions from her call-in radio show, Dr. Laura focuses on the typical mistakes made by men and women in their relationships, and shows how marriages can come back from the brink of disaster and divorce.
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Marriage and Other Acts of Charity
- By: Kate Braestrup
- Narrator: Kate Braestrup
- Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 13, 2010
- Language: English
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3.67(982 ratings)
3.67(982 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.98 USDIn her award-winning memoir Here If You Need Me, Kate Braestrup won the hearts of readers across the country with her deeply moving and deftly humorous stories of faith, hope and family. Now, with her inimitable voice and generous spirit, she turnsIn her award-winning memoir Here If You Need Me, Kate Braestrup won the hearts of readers across the country with her deeply moving and deftly humorous stories of faith, hope and family. Now, with her inimitable voice and generous spirit, she turns her attention to the subjects of love and commitment in Marriage and Other Acts of Charity.... Read moreAs a minister, Kate Braestrup regularly performs weddings. She has also, at 44, been married twice and widowed once, and accordingly has much to say about life after the ceremony. From helping a newlywed couple make amends after their first fight to preparing herself for her second marriage, Braestrup offers her insights and experiences on what it truly means to share your life with someone, from the first kiss to the last straw, for better or for worse.
Part memoir, part observation of modern marriage, and part meditation on the roles of God and love in our everyday lives, Marriage and Other Acts of Charity is a unique and unforgettable look into why, and how, we love each other, and proves yet again why Kate Braestrup’s writing is “inspirational in the best sense”-New York Daily News.
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The Fortress
- By: Danielle Trussoni
- Narrator: Danielle Trussoni
- Length: 10 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 20, 2016
- Language: English
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3.56(301 ratings)
3.56(301 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDThe critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Falling Through the Earth and Angelology returns with this much-anticipated memoir of love and transformation in the South of France. The Fortress is A Year in Provence meets Eat, Pray,The critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Falling Through the Earth and Angelology returns with this much-anticipated memoir of love and transformation in the South of France. The Fortress is A Year in Provence meets Eat, Pray, Love by way of The Shining, a riveting account of one woman’s journey to the other side of the romantic fairy tale.
“If I had been another woman, I might have been skeptical. But I wasn’t another woman. I was a woman ready to be swept away. I was a woman ready for her story to begin. As a writer, story was all that mattered. Rising action, dramatic complication, heroes and villains and dark plots. I believed I was the author of my life, that I controlled the narration.”
From their first meeting, writer Danielle Trussoni is spellbound by a brilliant, mysterious novelist from Bulgaria. The two share a love of music and books and travel, passions that intensify their whirlwind romance. Within months, they are married and embark upon an adventurous life together.
Eight years later, their marriage in trouble, Trussoni and her husband move to the South of France, hoping to save their relationship. They discover Aubais (pronounced obey, as in love, honor and . . . Aubais), a picturesque medieval village in the Languedoc, where they buy a thirteenth-century stone fortress. Aubais is a Mediterranean paradise of sun, sea, and vineyards, but they soon learn the fortress’s secret history of subterranean chambers, Knights Templar, hidden treasure, Nazis, and ghosts. During her years in Aubais, Trussoni’s marriage unravels with terrifying consequences, and she comes to understand that love is never the way we imagine it to be.
Trussoni’s time in France brings hard-won wisdom about authenticity, commitment, and family. Through her search for true happiness, Danielle Trussoni finds the strength to overcome her illusions and start again.
Unflinching and bold, The Fortress is one woman’s struggle to understand the complexities of her own heart. Trussoni’s long-awaited return to memoir is a tour de force that changes the conversation about desire and freedom.
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The Bitch in the House
- By: Cathi Hanauer
- Narrator: Cathi Hanauer
- Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 20, 2004
- Language: English
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3.52(3001 ratings)
3.52(3001 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDDespite more power and choices than ever before, women are still angry — that’s not necessarily a bad thing, as anger is what continues to open the door for change. In this collection, 15 women speak boldly and passionately about choicesDespite more power and choices than ever before, women are still angry — that’s not necessarily a bad thing, as anger is what continues to open the door for change. In this collection, 15 women speak boldly and passionately about choices they’ve made — about sex, children, love and work — and explore what’s working and what is not. Their essays — always provocative, honest, witty and wise — are the culmination of the lessons of the past two decades, the ‘me’ years and the therapy years, the years that have taught women to express themselves and acknowledge their needs. As celebratory as they are critical, these brilliant essays reflect the truth about life.
Audio contains the following essays, written and read by the contributors:
Introduction — Cathi Hanauer
Getting the Milk for Free — Veronica Chambers
Crossing to Safety — Jen Marshall
Moving In. Moving Out. Moving On. — Sarah Miller
Papa Don’t Preach — Kerry Herlihy
I Do. Not.: Why I Won’t Marry — Catherine Newman
Killing the Puritan Within — Kate Christensen
My Mother’s Ring: Caught Between Two Families — Helen Schulman
Attila the Honey I’m Home — Kristin van Ogtrop
The Myth of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed to Be. How It Was. — Hope Edelman
Daddy Dearest: What Happens When He Does More Than His Half? — Laurie Abraham
Crossing the Line in the Sand: How Mad Can Mother Get? — Elissa Schappell
Married at 46: The Agony and the Ecstacy — Nancy Wartik
The Fat Lady Sings — Natalie Kusz
What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude.The Pleasure of
Self-Knowledge. — Vivian Gornick
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The Enlightened Marriage
- By: Jed Diamond
- Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.28(21 ratings)
3.28(21 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDLove and marriage are two of the greatest gifts life has to offer, yet too many marriages fail because couples don’t fully understand the five stages of relationships. Because most of us have had hurtful experiences in past relationships,Love and marriage are two of the greatest gifts life has to offer, yet too many marriages fail because couples don’t fully understand the five stages of relationships. Because most of us have had hurtful experiences in past relationships, often going back to childhood, we develop an inaccurate love map that causes us to get off track when the stresses of life increase.
For more than forty years, Jed Diamond has been helping couples repair even the most damaged relationships and reweave the broken strands of marriage. In The Enlightened Marriage, Dr. Diamond will help you
get through stage three–disillusionment, without losing your love,understand that when your partner says, “I love you, but I’m not in love with you anymore,” it is not the end, but the beginning of stage four–real lasting love,learn why healing childhood wounds is the greatest gift of love you can give and receive from your partner,recognize and address the midlife stresses of “manopause,” irritable male syndrome, and male-type depression, andfollow your calling in stage five to make a real difference in the world.
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The Good Girl’s Guide to Being a D*ck
- By: Alexandra Reinwarth
- Narrator: Imogen Wilde
- Length: 4 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 02, 2019
- Language: English
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3.15(278 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDTHE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NO-NONSENSE GUIDE THAT WILL TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE. Stop worrying about being nicer, calmer, or more patient. Be a d*ck. For author Alexandra Reinwarth, it all began when she told off a toxic friend. Realizing thisTHE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NO-NONSENSE GUIDE THAT WILL TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE.... Read moreStop worrying about being nicer, calmer, or more patient. Be a d*ck.
For author Alexandra Reinwarth, it all began when she told off a toxic friend. Realizing this person was making her life miserable, she ditched her. This one small act of rebellion sparked a huge change in the way Alexandra forever dealt with social guilt about everything. Ever struggle with how you are
- as a person
- as a friend or a coworker
- as a partner or a mother
- as a daughter-in-law?
THE GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO BEING A D*CK will teach you how to embrace your inner jerk, guiding you through who and what to get rid of from your life, stop worrying about what others think, and how the seemingly small things in life can have a huge impact on the quality of your everyday living. You’ll learn how to embrace your own needs and desires to live the life you’ve always wanted.
For any woman who has felt that familiar agony of saying “no”–this book is for you.
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The Gal Guide to Cheaters and Liars
- By: Gabrielle St. George
- Narrator: Denise Halfyard
- Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDIn all but in the rarest of cases, the evidence seems to show that relationships can never fully, healthfully recover from affairs, but the fact is that individuals can. Those who have been cheated on and survived to tell the tale are living proofIn all but in the rarest of cases, the evidence seems to show that relationships can never fully, healthfully recover from affairs, but the fact is that individuals can. Those who have been cheated on and survived to tell the tale are living proof that after enough time has passed, healing will occur eventually. And we can always survive an affair. Broken hearts don’t actually kill people, they just feel like they might. The Ex-Whisperer helps you open your eyes to see and guides you to do what needs to be done.
The Gal Guides are for smart women who have temporarily misplaced their power. The Ex-Whisperer is an expert best friend who’s here for you. She’s also an expert on exes. She’s the Ex-Whisperer. Fact-packed, it’s give-your-head-a-shake relationship and lifestyle advice laced with personal confessions and a healthy dose of humor. Put the kettle on or crack open that bottle of Chardonnay and say hello to your new BFF.
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Kids
- By: Gail Kasper
- Narrator: Gail Kasper
- Length: 35 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 08, 2013
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.004.98 USDParenting in the modern world is no easy task, but with the help of this practical and inspiring guidebook you and your kids will be ready to take on anything.Parents are perhaps the most important bosses in the world! Not only do you have a careerParenting in the modern world is no easy task, but with the help of this practical and inspiring guidebook you and your kids will be ready to take on anything.
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Parents are perhaps the most important bosses in the world! Not only do you have a career to manage, but the ups and downs of life, and then on top of all of this, you must raise a little person to be an independent self-sufficient adult. As a professional speaker and corporate trainer, Gail Kasper has had the opportunity to speak to thousands of parents. In a world where we hear so much about entitled kids, backed by expert information, Gail will not only share her own personal challenges from childhood but the revelations she has made as an adult. EXTRA: Gail provides a 5-question quiz that will help you determine if it’s time to re-manage your life, revamp your relationships, or maybe even speak to a child behavior expert who could help you revise your parenting strategy. -
Better Together: Audio Bible Studies
- By: Danielle Strickland
- Narrator: Danielle Strickland
- Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: HarperChristian Resources
- Publish date: April 28, 2020
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USDCan you imagine a future where women and men are better together? We are at a strategic cultural intersection where relationships between women and men are eroding. While it is good for women to expose their pain, abuse, and experiences of genderCan you imagine a future where women and men are better together?
We are at a strategic cultural intersection where relationships between women and men are eroding. While it is good for women to expose their pain, abuse, and experiences of gender inequality and oppression, what often follows is a never-ending cycle of blame, accusations, denial, avoidance, and ultimately devastation for everyone involved.
Better Together, a six-session Bible study, is a beacon of hope in this challenging storm. Danielle Strickland helps us understand how oppression works-whether it relates to gender, race, socioeconomic status, or religion-and how to overcome it. Let Danielle inspire you to believe that change is possible and equip you with ideas and strategies that will compel you to action.
The Audio Bible Study series provides a unique learning experience. Instead of sitting down to watch a video teaching for Bible study, listen to the same quality Bible study content on the go! Whether you listen on your commute, while walking outside, or over a lunch break, you can access high-quality audio Bible studies wherever you are. Get the most out of the teaching by diving into the accompanying study guide (sold separately) to walk through reflection questions and individual Bible study to go deeper.
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