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Prayers for a Lonely Marriage

A Devotional for Marriages That Have Gone Quiet

by Nan Ellison

Nothing about your marriage would worry a neighbor. Nobody is bringing a casserole.

And some nights you could name everything that got done today, and nothing the two of you shared.

The book names that feeling, married and lonely, and follows the distance back to where it started: the questions that stopped, the touch that turned into a signal, the sentence you keep drafting in the driveway and deleting. Each chapter ends with a few small things to try and a prayer that says the true thing to God.

It will not tell you to leave him, and it will not tell you the loneliness is your fault, or his. The book closes with prayers for hard nights. At the front, before anything else, a note says where a quiet marriage ends and harm begins, with numbers to call.

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From the book

Nobody brings you a casserole for a marriage that’s gone quiet. Nobody sits with you the way they would if something had actually happened. You’re supposed to be fine. On paper, you are.

Introduction

Your hand is already moving toward his arm when you stop it. Half a second. Maybe less.

Touch That Isn’t a Prelude

God, I love him. I’m lonely. Hold both without making me pick which one is true.

Prayers for Hard Nights

In the book’s own words

If you are afraid of your husband — of his temper, of his hands, of what he will do if you disagree — or if he controls the money, your phone, or who you are allowed to see, or if he demeans you and calls it a joke, then what you are living in is not distance. It is harm.

Tell someone who can help. In the United States, the National Domestic Violence Hotline answers at any hour: call 1-800-799-7233 or text START to 88788. If you are in danger right now, call 911.

Formats
Kindle and paperback
Published
August 26, 2026
Paperback ISBN
979-8995176619
Publisher
Anchorline Publishing
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