From Anger to Intimacy: How Forgiveness Can Transform Your Marriage

by Dr. Gary Smalley, Ted Cunningham

Overview

All couples deal with anger. How they respond to it makes all the difference in their relationships and their lives. In From Anger to Intimacy, couples learn how to:

· resolve conflict, hurt, and pain in a healthy way
· overcome feelings of anger, frustration, and rage
· learn how to forgive and nurture a forgiving spirit
· craft the perfect apology
· break sexual addiction and heal after an affair
· and much more

This life-changing book is now available in trade paper.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800726584
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/16/2015
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Gary Smalley (1940-2016) was one of the country's best-known authors and speakers on family relationships. The bestselling and award-winning author or coauthor of many books, along with several popular films and videos, he spent more than thirty years learning, teaching, and counseling, speaking to over two million people in live conferences.

Ted Cunningham is the founding pastor of Woodland Hills Community Church in Branson, Missouri. He is a speaker with the Smalley Relationship Center and coauthor of The Language of Sex. He is a graduate of Liberty University and Dallas Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Amy, have two wonderful children.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9

Chapter 1 You Don't Have to Live that Way Anymore 11

Chapter 2 Recognize: Identifying Where Anger Appears 23

Chapter 3 Halt: Breaking the Cycle of Anger 57

Chapter 4 Own: Taking Responsibility 81

Chapter 5 Nurture: Caring for Your Emotions 113

Chapter 6 Liberate: Embracing the Spirit of Forgiveness 135

Chapter 7 Deliver: Crafting the Perfect Apology 157

Chapter 8 Relent: Overturning Roadblocks to Forgiveness 179

Chapter 9 Commit: Forgiving a Difficult Spouse 199

Chapter 10 Renew: Recovering from an Affair or Sexual Addiction 221

Chapter 11 Remain: Maintaining Forgiveness in a Marriage 245

Chapter 12 Answers to the Biggies 265

Meditations for Forgiveness 279