Diary of a Disappointed Wife: Finding Hope in a Weary Marriage

“Some people have bad kids. Some people have bad dogs. I have a bad marriage.”
Journey inside the mind of Megan Tippy-Clansen, a woman who loves her husband and her God but has trouble remembering both at times. In the midst of an emotional season, she penned this raw, transparent, yet somehow humorous ride through another valley in her 20-year marriage. She makes no promises to be delivered by the end of the book, only to be true to this challenging journey that God is obviously using to conform her to the image of Christ. She shares her decidedly one-sided perspective (it’s a diary, folks) with the reader in hopes that other wives will find comfort in knowing they, too, can endure rough patches or altogether rough marriages.

Though the author’s style is light, she tackles some heavy questions: Do you stay married just because you said you would? What if you got married under the wrong circumstances? Who wants so sign up for longsuffering? This book (or portions thereof) would make for a great case study or point of discussion for lay counselors, women’s ministry leaders, singles groups or Christian therapists.

This creative non-fiction work is a short but powerful collection of entries that offers discussion questions with links to resources for wives who need the comfort of knowing that their quirky marriage is not the first one, nor will it be the last. But there is hope in Christ.