Feeling Like Your Marriage Is Dead? by Staci Bartley

A refreshingly honest and personal guide to love and relationships, Feeling Like Your Marriage Is Dead?: A Divorce Mediator’s Guide to Ensuring a Lifetime of Love by Staci Bartley focuses on the importance of treating emotional pain as seriously as physical pain. The book begins with the provocative premise that “Marriage is dead,” referring to the idea that marriage alone can’t save a relationship. From there, Bartley tracks the history of marriage to show that the practice is malleable and urges readers to accept the fact that love can be temporary, for a down-to-earth perspective on modern romance. This succinct, relatable, and enthusiastic text will help readers engage in some serious self-reflection, as each section ends with challenging questions and journaling prompts that should inspire real change in a relationship.