Books

The Most Informative Abusive Relationship Books

Some essential reading if you are in an abusive relationship, know someone who is, or want to avoid one

• The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognise It and How to Respond by Patricia Evans
• The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing by Beverly Engel
• It’s My Life Now: Starting Over after an Abusive Relationship or Domestic Violence, 2^nd Edition by Roger R. Hock
• The Emotionally Destructive Relationship: Seeing It, Stopping It, Surviving It by Leslie Vernick
• Free Yourself From An Abusive Relationship by Andrea Lissette
• Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft
• Love Without Hurt: Turn Your Resentful, Angry or Emotionally Abusive Relationship into a Compassionate, Loving One by Steven Stosny
• But I Love Him: Protecting Your Teen Daughter from Controlling, Abusive Dating Relationships by Dr. Jill Murray
• It’s My Life Now: Starting Over After an Abusive Relationship or Domestic Violence by Roger R. Hock
• In Love and In Danger: A Teen’s Guide to Breaking Free of Abusive Relationships by Barrie Levy
• The Verbally Abusive Man, Can He Change?: A Woman’s Guide to Deciding Whether to Stay or Go by Patricia Evans
• The Secret of Overcoming Verbal Abuse: Getting Off the Emotional Roller Coaster and Regaining Control of Your Life by Albert Ellis
• Dragonslippers: This is What an Abusive Relationship Looks Like by Rosalind B. Penfold
• The Manipulative Man: Identify His Behaviour, Counter the Abuse, Regain Control by Dorothy McCoy
• Time to Fly Free: Meditations for Those Who Have Left an Abusive Relationship by Judith R. Smith
• Before It’s Too Late: Helping Women in Controlling or Abusive Relationships by Robert J. Ackerman
• The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognise It and How to Respond by Patricia Evans
• The Verbally Abusive Relationship – How to Recognise It and How to Respond, Expanded Second Edition by Patricia Evans
• The Abusive Personality: Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships by Donald G. Dutton
• The Abusive Personality, Second Edition: Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships by Donald G. Dutton
• The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Relationship: How to Support Your Partner and Keep Your Relationship Healthy by Diane England
• Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships by Janja Lalich
• Stepping Out of the Bubble: Reflections on the Pilgrimage of Counselling Therapy by James P. Krehbiel
• Coping with an Abusive Relationship by Carlene Cobb
• Chain, Chain, Change: For Black Women in Abusive Relationships (New Leaf Series) by Evelyn C. White
• Stop the Merry-Go-Round: Stories of Women Who Broke the Cycle of Abusive Relationships by Milton S Trachtenburg
• How to Get Off the Merry-Go-Round: Stories of Women Who Broke the Cycle of Abusive Relationships by Milton S Trachtenburg
• But He’ll Change: End the Thinking That Keeps You in an Abusive Relationship by Joanna V. Hunter
• Everything You Need to Know about Abusive Relationships (Need to Know Library) by Nancy N. Rue
• He Promised He’d Stop: Helping Women Find Safe Passage from Abusive Relationships by Michael Groetsch
• Your Call to Freedom!: An Interactive Guidebook With Bible-Based Tools To Heal From An Abusive Relationship by Michele Jones
• What Did I Do to Deserve This?: A Step-By-Step Guidebook to Move You Through the Abusive Relationship Towards a Peace-Filled Future by Joan McNeill
• Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay In or Get Out of Your Relationship by Mira Kirshenbaum
• He’s Just No Good for You: A Guide to Getting Out of a Destructive Relationship by Beth Wilson Saavedra
• Safe People: How to Find Relationships that are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren’t by John Townsend
• Exposed: The Harrowing Story of a Mother’s Undercover Work with the FBI to Save Children from Internet Sex Predators by R. Stephanie Good

The Most Informative Healthy Relationship Books

Some essential healthy relationship books

• Healthy Relationship: 92 Affirmations For Turning a Bad Relationship Into a Better Relationship Without Needing Relationship Counseling! by Gary Vurnum
• Life Preservers: Good Advice When You Need it Most by Harriet Lerner
• Relationships: An Open and Honest Guide to Making Bad Relationships Better and Good Relationships Great by Les Parrott
• Too Good for Her Own Good: Searching for Self and Intimacy in Important Relationships by Claudia Bepko
• In Good Times and Bad: Strengthening Your Relationship When the Going Gets Tough and the Money Gets Tight by M. Gary Neuman
• How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Relationship by Patricia Love
• When Good People Have Affairs: Inside the Hearts and Minds of People in Two Relationships by Mira Kirshenbaum
• New Earth Relationships: A Guide For Couples in the 21^st Century by William Weil
• Damaged Goods: The Restoring Power of the Father’s Love by Pastor Lewis L. Tucker Jr.
• Class Acts: How Good Manners Create Good Relationships and Good Relationships Create Good Business by Mary Mitchell
• We’re Just Good Friends: Women and Men in Non-Romantic Relationships by Kathy Werking
• Getting Married after 40: Advice and Inspiration from 100 Women Who Found Good Men and Happy Marriages by Carmen Anthony
• Master Yourself: Ten Steps to Loving Yourself, Having Good Relationships, and Being Successful by Claudio Vargas Silva
• Connect to Love: The Keys to Transforming Your Relationship by M. Gary Neuman
• Feeling Good Together: The Secret to Making Troubled Relationships Work by David D. Burns
• When Good Men Behave Badly: Change Your Behaviour, Change Your Relationship by David B. Wexler
• The Good Relationship Guide: How to Understand and Improve Male-Female Relationships by Maryon Tysoe
• The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood by Perry Glasser
• The Good Wife Guide: 19 Rules for Keeping a Happy Husband by Ladies’ Homemaker Monthly
• Inner Fitness for Creating a Better You: Six Lessons for Building Greater Awareness, High Self-Esteem, Good Relationships, and Spiritual Meaning by Suzanne E. Harrill
• Creating a Good Relationship by William J. Lederer
• Lame Habits of Truly Good People by Gudrun C. Carstairs
• His, Mine and Ours: A Guide to Keeping Marriage from Ruining a Perfectly Good Relationship by Anne Seifert
• Churches in Trouble by Paul E. Brown
• The Communication Skills Book by Fanning, Patrick, Matthew McKay & Martha Davis
• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by Gottman, John M. & Nan Silver
• The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts by Gary Chapman
• Letters To Philip: On How To Treat A Woman by Dr. Charlie W. Shedd
• Letters To Karen: On How to Treat A Man by Dr. Charlie W. Shedd
• The Guy’s Guide To Romance edited by James Bassil
• Dare to Connect: How to Create Confidence, Trust and Loving Relationships by Susan Jeffers
• Internet Dating – Men to Avoid, Men to Enjoy: The Breakthrough Guide to Pain-Free Dating for Women by Buzz McCarthy
• What Is Marriage For?  by E.J. Graff
• The Seven Principals for Making Marriage Work by Dr John Gottman
• 1001 Questions to Ask Before You Get Married by Monica Mendez Leahy
• If the Buddha Married by Charlotte Kasl Ph. D
• Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships by David Schnarch
• Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert (of Eat, Pray, Love fame)
• I Do but I Don’t: Walking Down the Aisle Without Losing Your Mind by Kamy Wicoff
• Emotionally Engaged: A Bride’s Guide to Surviving the Happiest Time of Her Life by Allison Moir-Smith
• How to Be a Couple and Still Be Free by Tina Tessina and Riley Smith
• The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
• Love is Never Enough by Aaron Beck
• Money and Marriage by Matt Bell
• Marriage Shock: The Transformation of Women into Wives by Dalma Heyn
• The Commitment by Dan Savage
• You Just Don’t Understand by Deborah Tannen
• Two-Part Invention: A Story of a Marriage by Madeleine L’Engle
• Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Dr Laura Shlessinger
• How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk by Jon Van Epp, PhD
• She Comes First: A Thinking Man’s Guide to Pleasing a Woman by Ian Kerner
• Young Wives’ Tales edited by Jill Corral and Lisa Miya-Jervis
• Your Wedding, Your Way by Sophie Vincenzi
• Emotional Intelligence by Goleman
• The Meaning of Wife by Kingston
• A History of the Wife by Marilyn Yalom
• Couples by Kate Figes
• Spousonomics by Paula Szuchman and Jenny Anderson
• The Conscious Bride by Sheryl Paul
• The Magic Room by Jeffrey Zaslow
• His Needs, Her Needs by Dr. Willard Harley
• LoveBusters by Dr. Willard Harley

General Relationship Related Reading

• Positive Thinking for Single Women: 92 Tips for Staying Happy and Positive When You’re Not In a Relationship by Gary Vurnum
• Positive Thinking for Single Men: 92 Tips for Staying Happy and Positive When You’re Not In a Relationship by Gary Vurnum
• Sexual Detours: The Startling Truth Behind Love, Lust and Infidelity by Dr. Holly Hein
• Your Long Erotic Weekend: Four Days of Passion for a Lifetime of Magnificent Sex by Dr. Lana Holstein and Dr. David Taylor

Good books for Teens and Parents of Teens

• But I Love Him: Protecting Your Teen Daughter from Controlling, Abusive Dating Relationships by Dr. Jill Murray
• In Love and In Danger: A Teen’s Guide to Breaking Free of Abusive Relationships by Barrie Levy
• Exercising Good Relationship Skills – Stories for Kids (Playaway Children) by Trenna Daniells
• What’s Right for Me?: Making Good Choices in Relationships (Boys Town Teens and Relationships) by Ronald W. Herron
• For Young Men Only: A Guy’s Guide to the Alien Gender by Jeff Feldhahn and Eric Rice

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