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In his book Happily Ever After?, author and former pastor Charlie Collins offers a fresh perspective on marital strife and gives readers a roadmap for returning to intimacy amid brokenness and desperation. 

It can be overwhelming when resentment and anger begin to take hold in a marriage. Though we are prone to self-destructive behaviors, there is still hope, and Happily Ever After? draws the reader toward God’s love, the cord that thrums beneath all relationships in our lives. Drawing from the ashes and rebirth of his own marriage, Charlie Collins unveils the paradoxical and biblical path to the intimacy that all couples long for. Each chapter features discussion questions to help identify and confront the feelings and flaws impacting the reader’s relationship.

Happily Ever After? explores the roots of love, demonstrates how to separate shame from guilt and choose honesty over delusion, offers a new definition of beauty, reframes the idea of “failure” in marriage, and helps the reader feel known and understood by someone who’s experienced marital hardship.

Marriage is not a fairy tale—but it doesn’t have to be a nightmare.

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“Never take advice from anybody about anything important or hard unless the person giving that advice has ‘been there and done that.’ Charlie and Kathy Collins have been to the dark places of marriage and Happily Ever After?, is a gift to every Christian who struggles in marriage and has decided to either leave or live in tears for the rest of their lives. Marriage books are a dime a dozen, but if you are looking for the real deal, this is your book. It’s biblical, practical, and honest. Charlie Collins ‘smells like Jesus.’ Not only that, this book will make a major impact on your marriage—and your life. Read it and then give it to your friends and they will ‘rise up and call you blessed.’”

—Steve Brown, Key Life Ministries

Praise for Happily Ever After

“Having endured marital challenges that he thought could go no deeper, Charlie Collins embarked on a path of believing God for his marriage. But he soon came to realize that choice would produce more frustration than liberation. Charlie shares transparently, biblically, and with gratitude that Jesus Christ is the only true Turnaround Specialist. If your marriage could use a turnaround, this is the book for you.”

—Steve McCary, retired pastor, Chattanooga, Tennessee

“Charlie Collins talks straight—or should I say writes—with raw honesty! He gives us a picture of learning to love a woman by surrendering his own idea of marriage and looking to a supernatural God to do what he found out early he couldn’t do on his own. With opportunities to reflect and questions for discussion, Charlie invites us on a journey of examination with the goal of a deeply satisfying relationship.”

—Carter Crenshaw, senior pastor, West End Community Church

“This is an honest, relatable, and profoundly helpful book about two people who went through several years of a coping marriage before things finally blew up. Then, as they started taking a deep look into their lives, they came face-to-face with their individual dysfunction. The lessons they learned, the corrective steps they took, and the miracles they experienced will bring inspiration and healing to those who take their lessons to heart.”

—Dave Jewitt, founder of Your One Degree

Happily Ever After CONTENT

  • Inside each of us is the self-destructive tension between longing for and fearing intimacy.

  • Re-meet the Holy Trinity as the radical, hidden-in-plain-sight model and pathway to true marital intimacy.

  • Some common prejudices showcase the lies that work like termites—unseen and unrelenting—to take down marriages.

  • As our line of sight rises from today to eternity, we see the model for intimacy in the Trinity and hear the call to honesty, forgiveness, and healing.

  • Consider the life-giving perspective of thankfulness and the radical power to see others and ourselves with new eyes.

  • Some Christians consider personality profiles suspect. But if all truth is God’s truth, then the insight provided by a good personality system can help us better love ourselves and others.

  • To find true beauty in your partner and in life, know the true standards.

  • Just the attempt to see what God sees can change our vision and how we perceive our partner, and that refocuses our lives.

  • The vital but overlooked key to relationships is listening to understand rather than to answer or build an attack.

  • From a biblical view of the male-female relationship, we can honor personal differences as refractions of the infinitely faceted Trinity.

  • Deep purpose and great joy are associated with agape sexual intimacy.

  • True change in a marriage happens not in the other person, but in me, as I surrender to the only power that can prevail in this broken world.