When Love Hurts: 10 Principles to Transform Difficult Relationships

by Karla Downing

A dysfunctional relationship is any relationship in which you find yourself struggling to force change, give advice, control, or fix problems. The difficulty can be due to an addiction, mental illness, abuse, a trying personality, irresponsibility, or anything else that interferes with a healthy relationship. The relationship may be breaking or already broken under the strain of the problems.When Love Hurts provides practical and scriptural tools to help you transform your dysfunctional relationship. The 10 principles in this book will help you to experience freedom--to let go and love your loved one, and to experience peace, trust, and joy in the midst of the storm. It will even provide you with tools that increase the chance that your loved one will change--the very thing that you have been trying to make him or her do and have failed. One day at a time, you will begin to change and heal.

Genres: Nonfiction, Marriage

160 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2004

Reviews

[Carissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

What an awesome book! This book discusses 10 principles to transform difficult relationships. The relationship isn’t defined in this book and can be applied to anyone (parent, child, spouse, sibling, friend, etc.). The ten principles are: understand scriptural truth, reach out, change yourself not your loved one, detach with love, nurture yourself, face your fears, speak the truth in love, forgive, set boundaries, and enter God’s rest. The writing was very simple and practical. Highly recommend!

[Carolyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very practical wisdom. Inspirational.