Fighting for Your Marriage While Separated {Book Review}

Linda Rooks' book, Fighting for Your Marriage While Separated, is excellent because she continually brings everything back around to focusing on God and your personal relationship with Him in the midst of your brokenness. She even makes it clear in chapter 1 that feelings change, and circumstances have great affect on us--these are the reasons we NEED to focus on God! I really appreciate the layout of each chapter, as it gives personal stories (from Rook's life and the lives of others), and then shares how to seek out God and His plan within it, followed by practical application. This book is a great resource to use for Biblical Counseling, and I would also recommend that a person who is in a marriage that COULD lead to separation be proactive--read the book now, and begin putting into practice Rook's suggestions.

*I received a copy of this book from the publisher, but was under no obligation to write a review. My honest opinion has been provided without any requirement to write a positive review.

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Fighting for Your Marriage While Separated

A home ripped apart when one spouse leaves plunges those left behind into heartrending confusion. With the normal life of yesterday shattered and gone, unanswered questions abound, simple answers don’t exist, and reconciliation may seem out of reach.

When separation breaks a family apart, a spouse willing to fight for the marriage must step back from the fray and take a new look. Fighting for your marriage means going deeper to appropriate a whole new set of weapons. Change must take place, and it starts with God.

Fighting for Your Marriage While Separated continues to walk beside the brokenhearted, guiding readers in practical and strategic ways toward hope and a positive outcome.  Through honest and insightful encouragement and stories of hope, the book guides readers into a place of strength where they can enter God’s war room, unravel the complexities of this difficult journey, and fight for their marriage.

Fighting for Your Marriage While Separated, A Practical Guide for the Brokenhearted, published by New Growth, is available on Amazon, Christianbook.com and Barnes & Noble. Watch for information about radio and TV interviews about the book on Linda’s Broken Heart on Hold Facebook Page.  Or sign up for Linda’s newsletter

After Linda’s own marriage survived a three-year separation, she walked with her husband through a time of God’s healing and soon began shifting much of her energy into sharing hope with those who are hurting. Since that time she has ministered to hundreds of people in classes and over the Internet, traveling with them through the pain of broken hearts and relationships to help them find the healing that comes from God. She and her marriage ministry were featured in Today’s Christian Woman in 2009.

Linda W. Rooks is the author of Broken Heart on Hold, Surviving Separation, (June 2006, David C. Cook) and Fighting for Your Marriage while Separated (March 2019, New Growth Press), winner of the Golden Scroll Non-fiction book of the Year for 2019.  Her stories and articles have appeared in a number of national publications including Chicken Soup for the Beach Lover’s Soul, Chicken Soup- Life Lessons from the Cat, Focus on the Family, Today’s Christian Woman, HomeLife, Light and Life, The Lookout Catholic Forester, Preserving Christian Homes, The Orlando Sentinel, San Diego Family Magazine, and several online venues, including Grace Centered Magazine, Assist News Service, and Thinking About Suicide blog, For 12 years she was a regular contributor to Tapestry, a Walk Thru the Bible devotional magazine for women, and for eight years Linda served in various editorial positions for Center Stage Magazine, a Central Florida Arts and Entertainment publication. She is a contributing author to Love is a Verb by Gary Chapman and Bethany House’s Angels, Miracles, and Heavenly Encounters.

In 2015 Linda published her first children’s book, The Bunny Side of Easter to tell a winsome, but exciting adventure that uses an allegorical story about the Easter bunny and his act of heroism to point children to the true meaning of Easter.

Linda is listed in Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in the World. She has participated in numerous radio and television interviews across the North American continent, is a member of Advanced Writers and Speakers Association (AWSA), Christian Author’s Network (CAN), American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW), and is a founding member of Word Weavers, the premier international Christian writers critique group. She and her husband are Resource Members on the Troubled Marriages Team of the Association of Marriage and Family Ministries (AMFM) and lead a marriage reconciliation ministry at the Central Florida mega-church where they have been in leadership for many years.

Linda received a B.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She and her husband Marv now live in Maitland, Florida, have two married daughters, and five grandchildren. Her husband Marv is a professor at Barry University School of Law.

To listen to Linda and her husband talk about their story of separation and reconciliation, listen to their three-part interview on Family Life Today.

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