Breaking the Cycle of Divorce: How Your Marriage Can Succeed Even If Your Parents' Didn't Book

Can you—an adult child of divorce—build a healthy, lasting marriage?

Making your marriage healthy—and making it last—has never been harder. In an age when the pressures on marriage are heavy and divorce is more accepted and easier to obtain, marriages seem to fail as often as they succeed.

When you come from a home of divorce, making your own marriage work is even tougher than the norm. Because you didn’t receive the example of a loving and committed marriage, you instead got a curse. And if you’re like most adult children of divorce, that curse now manifests itself in your life in ways that are deadly to relationships.

So if you’re worried about your own ability to build and maintain a satisfying marriage, you’ve got good reason—and a lot of company.

Fortunately, in Breaking the Cycle of Divorce, author John Trent, an adult child of divorce himself, gives you the encouragement, insight, and tools you need to beat the odds. Learn how you can, in fact, succeed where your parents failed.

You can learn to avoid repeating your parents’ mistakes.

You can begin to take reasonable and realistic steps in the right direction.

You can find the help you need to gain strength, wisdom, and persistence.

Breaking the Cycle of Divorce is your plan for building a lifelong, thriving marriage!

Library Journal

Establishing a successful marriage is challenging, but doing it when one is the adult child of divorced parents is even harder. Trent (president, StrongFamilies.com) lived through his own parents' divorce and was able to handle the "baggage" inherent in broken relationships. With Weeden (director, book development, Focus on the Family; Feeling Guilty, Finding Grace), he shares his story, offering hope, encouragement, and realistic advice for those who feel they are living under a curse and are destined to repeat past mistakes. He delves into such relationship killers as false guilt, smoldering anger, unhealthy secrets, and blame. He uses biblical figures as examples and recommends drawing on the love and power of God to reach one's goals. His psychology is sound, and his words will inspire readers. Recommended for most public libraries. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.