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by Carolyn O. Klassen (Author)
A startling title that you don't have to hide from your husband-in fact, share it with him as a critical investment in your marriage.!Here's the deal: 70% of divorces are initiated by women. That number jumps to 90% for college educated women. This is the book that addresses this gender disparity and helps husbands and wives answer the question: How can you reduce the odds that the wife in the relationship will be so unhappy she needs to leave the relationship?Apparently, wives often have a more accurate pulse on the marriage, and know when it's time to pull the plug on it. What if women used that wisdom to create positive change in marriage, long before divorce becomes the best idea?
This book is for both of you, to make your marriage better for each of you. A whimsical, very-humanly-real approach for a couple whose relationship quality is going down, maybe even circling the drain.The author has seen this dynamic hundreds of times in a successful private therapy practice over 2 1/2 decades. This is the book that helps couples understand the dangerous dynamic of a resentful, over functioning wife and a good man who is a lousy husband.
It's not working for her now--and if she leaves, if won't be working for either of them. Why wouldn't he want to know some hard news that she has been avoiding telling him? Is it worth hurting his feelings if he gets to remain in a marriage he wants and loves?
This is not about husband bashing--it's about relationship improving.My Marriage is almost Dead will help make a good marriage become great, a struggling marriage be better, and perhaps, rescue a marriage on the rocks. It's a book to create conversations with your husband that will move your relationship from poor or mediocre to wonderful and life-giving.
When you find yourself in the situation where:
- you know you love him
- he's fundamentally a great guy
- but you're struggling with the distance between you and...
- it seems he just doesn't understand how hard it is for you...then
My Marriage is Almost Dead and My Husband Doesn't Get It is the book that will give you some ability to address the situation.
You may not be in trouble yet, but the pattern has been set--and now, unless something changes, it may be only a matter of time before the relationship is just a shell...looks good on the outside, but empty on the inside.
Carolyn Klassen, is a popular writer, speaker (including TEDx) and sought after therapist with 23 years of experience. This book is written out of her many years of work with couples in therapy. She writes clearly and poignantly, in a very real and human way about the pain women experience when their husbands hear their concerns without really "getting it". My Marriage is Almost Dead and My Husband Doesn't Get It will support and encourage you to take steps to create shifts that simply cannot be ignored.
Klassen gives clear understanding, practical tools, and deep compassion needed to find the motivation to say, "I matter in this marriage too, and it absolutely needs to start working better for me". Klassen writes to wives who know their marriage is deteriorating, and their husbands are oblivious. There are a lot of guys that are fantastic men, but don't realize that they are actually not-so-great in being husbands.
Practical, inspiring, and supportive, this book creates a different space to ensure that you can make positive changes in your marriage. Ironically, and also beautifully--when you are happier, your husband will be too!
Author Biography
Carolyn Klassen is director and therapist at Conexus Counselling, a large, respected and busy private practice in Manitoba, Canada. She has appeared in HuffingtonPost Canada articles and Sun Media national columns. Carolyn is a regular weekly guest on one of Canada's flagship talk radio programs, as well as various other media interviews on radio, television, and print. Carolyn is a dynamic speaker delivering workshops, retreats, and seminars to help people connect more effectively with themselves, others, and The Divine. She writes a blog entitled, "A Thoughtful Look at Life" at . Carolyn is a Certified Daring Way(TM) facilitator, an experiential process developed out of the research of Dr. Brené Brown. Carolyn is happily married with a crew of sons and now some daughter-in-laws. She loves café mistos, visiting with friends, and sitting in the bleachers watching her kids play sports. Carolyn believes we are wired for connection. She has a special interest in removing barriers that stop people from reaching their goals. Live the life and have the connections you were created for!
