Gary Chapman believes that a healthy marriage is one in which two partners grow toward one another, and good communication is essential to that growth. This has been the message of Pastor Chapman's popular radio program, "A Growing Marriage," as well as his books, videos, and seminars. In THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES, he acknowledges that any two ...
It's no surprise that men and women have radically different priorities. Describing the 10 most important needs of men and women, the author teaches you how to "affair-proof" your marriage by learning how to sustain romance, increase intimacy, and deepen your awareness year after year. This anniversary edition features a new Preface, plus personal ...
After decades of studying both successful and splitting married couples, John Gottman has distilled his findings into basic precepts for success, explaining how and why they work. Rejecting traditional assumptions about the things that make a marriage work, Gottman cites "emotional intelligence" as the bedrock of marital success. He turns his ...
In the long-awaited follow-up to her bestselling "The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands," Dr. Laura now focuses on how men and women need to understand and appreciate the uniqueness of masculinity and femininity and how to bring a marriage back from the brink of disaster.
Why do so many women feel that men don't tell them anything, but just lecture and criticise? Why do so many men feel that women nag them and never get to the point? In this pioneering book Deborah Tannen shows us how women and men talk in different ways, for profoundly different reasons. While women use language to make connections and reinforce ...
Developed over 20 years ago and practiced all over the world, Emotionally Focused Therapy has been heralded by Time magazine and the New York Times as one of the only types of therapy to actually work. Couples who practice EFT see a 75% success rate (compared to 30% for other forms of relationship therapy). EFT focuses on the emotional connection ...
A practical guide for improving communication within relationships, helping both sexes get what they want from love and friendship. The author encourages readers to accept the other gender's particular way of expressing love and helps men and women accept each other's emotional needs.
Michele Weiner Davis goes beyond her marriage-saving bestseller, Divorce Busting, with this empowering and encouraging guide for revitalizing marriage and building stronger, more loving bonds. In a down-to-earth style that is free of psychobabble, Weiner Davis outlines a realistic, solution-oriente
There is the happy couple, and there is their stuff. When two individuals come together to form a couple, there is...all that stuff. What to do with it? What if she doesn't like your stuff? What if you don't like hers? Who gets to keep what? And where is room for a growing, thriving, healthy relationship under all those piles of...stuff? Does your ...
The best marriage workbook just got better! "Five Steps to Romantic Love" helps couples know and meet each other's needs and overcome the habits that destroy love. A popular supplement to Dr. Harley's "His Needs, Her Needs and Love Busters", this workbook is now available in a convenient lay-flat binding. All of the worksheets, inventories, and ...
According to Aaron Beck, many couples therapy books tend to focus on lack of communication in the relationship rather than the problem of miscommunication. This problem occurs when partners have lived together long enough that each begins to practice what Beck refers to as "presumed mind reading," i.e. one presumes to understand exactly what the ...
Divorce, the author maintains, is not the only way, the most desirable way, or even the quickest way to end a troubled marriage. In this breakthrough book she offers the alternative--a step-by-step approach to transforming an ailing marriage into a healthy and happy one.
In this fifteenth anniversary edition of Love Busters, Willard F. Harley, Jr., helps couples identify and overcome the most common habits that destroy the feeling of love.
An in-depth study of the vital principles from the best-selling Cracking the Communication Code now in workbook form. Communication between couples has been dissected in thousands of books and articles, so why does it remain the number one marriage problem? "Because," says Dr. Emerson Eggerichs, "most spouses don't know that they speak two ...
Tannen draws on her extensive and groundbreaking research to show that women and men live in different worlds, made of different words. Men use language to protect their independence and negotiate status, while women use language to seek confirmation and reinforce intimacy. This results in misunderstanding and communication breakdown--but Dr. ...
In this relationship guide, Piver offers a hundred questions that couples may not have thought of or which they may not have been able to raise. Couples can use these questions to clarify their likes and dislikes, to raise the level of their relationship, and to shape the path on which they would like to journey.
Now You're Speaking My Language is the newest paperback release from The New York Times best-selling author of The Five Love Languages. In this conversion of the Gold Medallion Award-winning Covenant Marriage, Chapman encourages spouses to exhibit loyalty, forgiveness, empathy, and commitment to resolving conflict in order to foster spiritual ...
The phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller is now available in a Spanish-language edition, published to coincide with the release of Gray's new hardcover Mars and Venus in the Bedroom.
This is an account of personal experience in an open marriage, representing this often marginalized behavior as a viable and healthy option.Finally, a book about open marriage that tackles the problems surrounding monogamy and fidelity in an honest, heartfelt manner. Jenny Block is your average girl next door, a wife and mother for whom married ...
Marriage counselor Gray translates the thoughts, words, and actions of the two sexes, opens up the channels of communication and intimacy, and explains how differences that come between them can prohibit mutually fulfilling loving relationships.
Practical skills and techniques that are based on how distressed and non-distressed couples differ in their problem-solving methods. Often used as a supplementary text for college counseling courses. Content Highlights 1 Listening and Validation -- checking impact with intent, giving feedback, summarizing 2 Leveling -- expressing feelings, being ...
A lot of books about couples' communication give techniques that are too complicated, especially in the heat of the moment. Not so with the simple, powerfully effective methods in "Communication Miracles for Couples". In just a few minutes, couples will learn how to: feel totally loved; never argue again; get your partner to really hear you; ...
A relationship therapist and ordained minister shares his insights into how to achieve a successful marriage, urging mutual submission, shared bliss, vulnerability, solitude, and other solutions to creating a strong marriage marked by mutual self-growth and personal awareness. Reprint.
In this new book, the bestselling author of "The Five Love Languages" shows how communication and intimacy are two of the most important aspects in developing a successful Covenant Marriage.
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