When Love Hurts

When the person you love most is hurting... how do you survive without losing yourself?

When Love Hurts is a raw, honest memoir from Mike and Christine Gifford-partners in life, pain, and healing. It is the story of two people caught in the grip of addiction, trauma, and disease, who dared to ask the hardest questions: What is love when it no longer feels safe? How do you forgive when you're still bleeding? Is redemption possible when you can barely hold on?

Told from both Mike's and Christine's perspectives, this powerful book explores:

-The hidden toll of codependency and caretaking

-The spiritual journey from betrayal to healing

-How love can become both a wound and a lifeline

-The radical path of self-forgiveness and self-love

-What it means to stay-through illness, recovery, and truth

Whether you've struggled in your own relationships, supported a loved one through addiction, or felt the quiet ache of losing yourself to someone else's pain-this book offers hope. Mike and Christine don't pretend to have all the answers, but they have lived the questions. And in doing so, they have found something more enduring than perfection: authentic love.