Surviving an Unwanted Divorce
A Biblical, Practical Guide to Letting Go While Holding Yourself Together
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Publisher Description
Discover biblically based, practical strategies for navigating divorce so you can move through one of life’s most painful seasons and into a new life of fresh hope.
In Surviving an Unwanted Divorce, New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst, alongside theologian Dr. Joel Muddamalle and Licensed Professional Counselor Jim Cress, gives you a resource to help answer some of your toughest questions about divorce and how to move on with your life.
Divorce isn’t just a decision a person makes one day. It’s a vortex of indescribable pain, shame, and devastation wrapped in a tangle of questions that may never be answered and a heap of judgment from those who truly don’t understand.
Whether you’re in the throes of a divorce, still processing things that happened years ago, or walking with someone you love through a devastating season, help is not far away, and God deeply cares for you. Surviving an Unwanted Divorce helps you answer tough questions like:
Does God hate divorce?How do I stop feeling so angry about all that has been taken from me?Why hasn’t God stopped all this tragedy from happening?How do I walk toward a future I never envisioned?How long is it going to take to heal?
Surviving an Unwanted Divorce offers you biblically based, practical strategies for navigating loss, shame, intense loneliness, and the unfairness of it all. A failed marriage doesn’t make you a failure in God’s eyes. You’ve lived through a nightmare, and now it’s time to give yourself permission to dream again.
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TerKeurst (I Want to Trust You, But I Don't) teams up with her Therapy and Theology podcast cohosts Muddamalle (The Hidden Peace), a theologian, and Cress, a therapist, for a refreshingly concise and candid guide to enduring divorce. After learning of her husband's infidelity in 2016, TerKeurst engaged with him in a "dysfunctional dance" of empty promises, marriage counseling, and reconciliation attempts before filing for divorce in 2021 ("I wasn't giving up. I was finally accepting the reality that changing a marriage really isn't possible if one of the two people is unwilling or incapable of making the desperately needed changes"). The author addresses concerns common to believers considering or recovering from a divorce, including the biblical stance on the subject (God doesn't "hate divorce," according to TerKeurst, and scripture shows it's "permissible under certain situations," including in abusive marriages), how to adjust to a new normal, and how to forgive without forgetting or reconciling. TerKeurst does important work in debunking the notion that divorce is a spiritual failure, while actionable tips from Cress (on recognizing codependency, among other topics) add value. This will be a balm to believers in the midst of or fresh off their own marital breakups.
