Surviving Love

The Fire That Almost Broke Me

And The Rise That Followed

A Memoir of Pain, Fire, and Rebirth

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Dwaine Kelly Gaulke

Writer. Survivor. Phoenix.

Dwaine didn’t set out to write a book. He set out to survive. Surviving Love was born from years of silence — the kind that builds up in men who are taught to carry pain quietly instead of speaking it. What started as private pages became a testimony: proof that even when everything burns down, something stronger can rise from the ash.

This is not a polished success story. It’s an honest one — for anyone who’s ever loved hard, lost harder, and had to rebuild from nothing.

About the Book

Surviving Love

Some fires don’t destroy you. They forge you.

Surviving Love takes readers through the darkest chapters of heartbreak, betrayal, and emotional devastation — and out the other side. Written for poets, dreamers, musicians, and men who’ve never had permission to grieve out loud, this book doesn’t offer easy answers. It offers truth, and the quiet reminder that you are not alone in the fire.

This is a book for anyone who has ever had to burn before they could rise.

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Beyond The Spotlight: I Can Feel God Speaking TO ME

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I didn't rise because the fire stopped. I rose because I stopped running from it

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The Fire Before the Rebirth: What Nobody Tells You About Healing

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