How to Build a Thriving Marriage as You Care for Children with Disabilities

by Kristin Faith Evans MA, MS, LMSW; Todd Evans PhD, MA

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Pub Date May 14 2024 | Archive Date Jul 31 2024

Baker Books

Christian | Parenting & Families

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Description

Building a vibrant and joyful marriage is always a challenge. When you add the stresses inherent in parenting children with disabilities, it becomes both more difficult and more critical.

Once on the brink of divorce, Kristin and Todd Evans uncovered the unique set of skills critical for growing a fulfilling relationship amid the extraordinary challenges of caring for their two children with special needs. Now they are sharing their hard-won discoveries and inspiring marriage story with you. Weaving together insights from Scripture, research, and clinical and personal experience, Kristin and Todd offer you the practical relationship tools you need to save, strengthen, and enjoy your marriage. They help you

· identify your unique needs
· assess your strengths and weaknesses
· set your priorities
· develop healthy stress management skills
· deepen your communication and connection
· tackle problems as a team
· find ways to rest and recharge
· nurture sexual intimacy
· build a strong support network
· and so much more

Advance Praise

"When the doctor delivers the heart-crushing news that your child has severe medical challenges, the waves of grief threaten to overwhelm. It is in this exact journey that How to Build a Thriving Marriage as You Care for Children with Disabilities is such a welcome light in what is so often the darkest valley. Filled with hope when you need it most--and many practical action and relational steps you can take right now--this new book gives couples the perfect roadmap for thriving in the midst of troubled times." --Matt Jacobson, founder of FaithfulMan.com, and Lisa Jacobson, founder of Club31Women.com

"For any couple whose relationship is crumbling under the grief and stress of parenting children with disabilities, these pages offer priceless hope and help. Todd and Kristin Evans speak with insight and honesty about their experiences and how to rekindle love, faith, and partnership in even the most hurting marriage. It's not too late to make a new way forward, together, and this book shows the way." --Rob and Joanna Teigen, founders of Growing Home Together and bestselling authors

"At last! A marriage book written specifically for parents of children with disabilities and special needs. Todd and Kristin Evans offer hope born of personal and professional experience and show couples how to assess and strengthen different aspects of their marriage in simple and powerful ways. Had How to Build a Thriving Marriage as You Care for Children with Disabilities been written when my husband and I were raising our medically fragile child, it would have been on our bookshelf. I hope it will soon have a place on yours too." --Jolene Philo, national speaker and coauthor of Sharing Love Abundantly in Special Needs Families (with Dr. Gary Chapman)

"When the doctor delivers the heart-crushing news that your child has severe medical challenges, the waves of grief threaten to overwhelm. It is in this exact journey that How to Build a Thriving...