Book cover for Starved: The Silent Crisis of Affection-less Marriage by John Williams

Starved

The Silent Crisis of Affection-less Marriage

2025 Released
106 Pages
1-2 Hours
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John WilliamsISBN 9798231974832

"I feel married, but alone."

Behind countless Christian and non-Christian marriages is a silent crisis few dare to talk about - affection starvation. One spouse longs for connection, tenderness, and intimacy while the other withdraws, dismisses, or simply refuses to give. The pain grows quietly, but the damage runs deep.

Starved: The Silent Crisis of Affectionless Marriage exposes one of the most common - and most overlooked - threats to covenant marriages today.

In these powerful pages you will discover:

✅ Why affection is not optional in Christian marriage
✅ How emotional and physical withholding slowly destroys intimacy
✅ The spiritual battle behind emotional distance
✅ The dangerous lie of "this is just how marriage is"
✅ How hardened hearts can be healed and restored
✅ A step-by-step biblical path to restore affection, rebuild trust, and reignite intimacy
✅ Powerful prayers, assessments, and a 30-Day Affection Restoration Challenge

You don't have to live like roommates. You don't have to suffer in silence. God can restore your marriage, your tenderness, and your covenant - no matter how long affection has been absent.

"I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten." - Joel 2:25

John Williams

John Williams is Head of Collections Management and Digital Library Services at Newcastle University. He has written extensively on television and cultural history, and he was editor of the popular television review website Tachyon TV. He is a regular contributor to the BFI’s Mediatheque and Screenonline resources and his biography of dramatist Malcolm Hulke, Mac, will be published in 2014.

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