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In prospective, long-term research with over 700 couples, Gottman has discovered certain factors that distinguish happy, stable couples from both unstable, ultimately divorcing couples and stable but unhappy couples. These findings, which are explained here in understandable, nontechnical language, form the basis of his Sound Marital House theory of marriage, which guides the new therapy. This therapy has two goals: changing the marital friendship and teaching couples to regulate conflict.

Love has a history and we ride - sometimes rather helplessly - on its currents. Since around 1750, we have been living in a highly distinctive era in the history of love that we can call Romanticism. And it has been a disaster for love. Relationships challenges the assumptions of the Romantic view of love. It shows how to develop new attitudes that can lead to a psychologically mature vision of love.

Couples therapy works, with approximately 70% of couples experiencing measurable improvements. Yet cost and access barriers prevent many from getting help. Choosing Us: Stories and Strategies to Strengthen Your Marriage from Inside the Therapy Room brings the therapy experience directly to...

In this revised and expanded edition of his best-selling book, well-known Bible teacher Derek Prince and his wife, Ruth, reveal God's true plan for you and your future spouse. In addition to sharing their own real-life love story, Derek lays out seven biblical steps to finding your mate.

Protégez votre relation amoureuse de l'impulsivité et de l'inattention grâce à cette approche apaisante du TDAH. Comprenez enfin les véritables mécanismes neurocognitifs qui fragilisent vos échanges, même quand l'affection est profondément ancrée. Apprenez à apprivoiser cette...

Combining the rigor that has established them as leaders in their respective fields along with a dose of good-natured humor, the Tellers ask listeners to take a fresh look at seven common sacred cows: the Holy Cow, the Expert Cow, the Selfish Cow, the Defective Cow, the Innocent Victim Cow, the One True Cow, and the Other Cow. This is not an audiobook that is "for" marriage or "for" divorce, but "for" the freedom to decide how to live most honestly and happily either as part of a couple or a single person.

You're not broken. You're not cold. You're not incapable of love. You ghost after amazing dates. You find flaws in partners when things get serious. You say "I'm fine" when you're crumbling. Normal relationship expectations feel suffocating. You pride yourself on never needing anyone, yet you're desperately alone. You've been called "emotionally unavailable" and "commitment-phobic"—labels that sting because they contain truth you can't explain. Here's what's really happening: Your nervous system learned that intimacy equals danger. What it learned, it can unlearn.

Brought to you by Penguin. Every couple wants a happy relationship and a meaningful career but how do we balance both at the same time? In Couples that Work, Professor Jennifer Petriglieri shifts away from the language of sacrifice and trade-offs and focuses on how couples can successfully...

Relationships are a cornerstone of happiness and key to living a full life. But relationships are not given, they are made. In this breakout book, New York Times bestselling author Rick Hanson offers the fundamental tools and skills to foster happy, lasting and fulfilling relationships in all areas of life. Making Great Relationships offers 50 simple practices that we can all easily add in to our everyday life.

An unforgettable novel from Saturday Kitchen's Helen McGinn! Everything can change – In Just One Day Flora has always adored her brother Billy. Born just eighteen months apart, their childhood was spent like two peas in a pod – no one could separate them. Now, as adults, they remain the best...

In How We Love, relationship experts Milan and Kay Yerkovich draw on the powerful tool of attachment theory to show how your early life experiences created an “intimacy imprint”–an underlying blueprint that shapes your behavior, beliefs, and expectations of all relationships, especially your marriage. They identify four types of injured imprints that combine in marriage to trap couples in a repetitive dance of pain.

Read by the authors. When suffering takes you by surprise, joy isn't cancelled. In Joy Isn't Canceled, Carlos and Alexa invite you into their honest journey through loss to discover unexpected hope, community, and strength. When Carlos and Alexa PenaVega lost their newborn daughter, Indy, their...

The book shows a scripted conversation between a counsellor and a client over six counselling sessions. It is based on real-life counselling sessions. The themes are based on real events that occurred during counselling sessions with various clients who were struggling to control their feelings of irritability and anger towards their partner.

Stop walking on eggshells and establish healthy emotional boundaries while loving a partner with complex PTSD. When you care deeply for a trauma survivor, it is terrifyingly easy to feel lost, isolated, and constantly on edge trying to manage their daily triggers. This compassionate, grounding...

This book will help you to rekindle the affection and love that all marriages are built on. There's no better guarantee than expert opinions and in-depth discussions on communication, positivity, trust, and more to rediscover what a marriage can bring. Have you ever felt as if your discussions with your spouse are going nowhere? Ever felt as if there's something lacking between you and your spouse? This book is going to help you overcome those problems and improve your marriage!

Bloomsbury presents Where is the Love?: The Honest Guide to Dating and Relationships written and read by Anna Williamson. SHORTLISTED FOR THE HEALTH & WELLBEING AWARDS 2022 'Anna is THE go-to on all things dating and relationships. There is just no one with better knowledge, balanced wisdom and...

In a world that asks us to choose – between work and love, independence and belonging, ambition and rest – what if the deepest task of a life well lived is not choosing at all, but learning how to inhabit all three simultaneously? In The Three Marriages, David Whyte offers a luminous...

In this powerful memoir of addiction, prison, and recovery, a reporter and a photographer tell their gripping story of falling in love, the heroin habit that drove them apart, and the unlikely way a criminal conviction brought them back together. Books for a Better Life Award Finalist LitHub...

BPD and NPD expert Randi Kreger provides targeted resources to help you build the confidence you need to navigate your relationship safely and effectively. Packed with in-depth information and proven-effective skills, this guide will help you evaluate your relationship, discover what you truly want and need, and gain the courage needed to make healthy decisions.

Once upon a time, Martians and Venusians functioned in separate worlds. But in today's hectic and career-oriented environment, relationships have become a lot more complicated, and men and women are experiencing unprecedented levels of stress. To add to the increasing tension, most men and women...