Editorial Reviews. Review. After reviewing this short powerful workbook I immediately wanted Are you experiencing any of these common patterns in your relationship? . In practical, useful terms, the reader gets to see tools of self awareness of unconscious habits and communications to a place of love and intimacy.
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But it's more common than you think—and may actually help strengthen your relationships. By Jeremy E Sherman Ph. Think it's easy to spot the evil, hypocritical liars among us? You can't even begin unless you factor in a few complications. Consider getting rid of your smart phone altogether—or at least locking it up at night.
By Randi Gunther Ph. There is almost nothing more tragic for intimate partners than to watch their once-hopeful relationship fall apart. By Erin Leonard Ph. Imagine, for a moment, that a person's identity or sense of self has a structure inside of their chest. One is a wooden box and the other is glass. By Kristen Fuller, M. By Robert J King Ph. New opportunities, but also new concerns.
By Eyal Winter Ph. Scientific literacy is not about "knowing" science. It's about thinking scientifically. People think that being nice will result in being liked by other people. While "being nice" often contributes to likability, there are many other contributing factors as well. By Randi Hutter Epstein M. What happens to a couple's sex life when dementia hits? The answers may surprise you. Many wonder why anyone would fall in love with someone who suffers from narcissistic personality disorder, if they can be so difficult to have a healthy relationship with.
By Leon F Seltzer Ph. When you are in love and fervently wish that your romance culminates in marriage, your behavior will be as agreeable and accommodating as you can make it. By Stephen Camarata Ph. Kindergarten children's latent love of learning is being destroyed by attempts to "teach to the test" and prepare for a lifetime of worksheet drudgery. The social, environmental, biological, and personal determinants of health. How we move from casual acquaintances to close, meaningful friendships.
From surly teens to tough mothers-in-law, how to understand what's going on in your family. How families are changing and not changing in our multicultural computer-centric world. A gender communication specialist unravels the mystery of how men and women communicate. Exploring the pervasive, and unperceived, patterns that govern our lives. A scientific look at the complexities of romantic relationships. Rethinking sex roles and expectations that stifle relationships. Understanding passive aggressive behavior in families, schools, and workplaces. How to identify behaviors that undermine love—and how to avoid drifting apart.
What we can learn from the trials and triumphs of celebrity relationships. Rescuing women and men from the quicksand of difficult relationships. The secret key to manifesting power, happiness, and success: And further unorthodox advice on relationships, marriage and parenting. From close relationships and emotions to anxiety and depression. What blue-footed boobies and other animals tell us about human relationships.
Back Find a Therapist. What Causes Stress Eating? Parenting Adolescents and the Choice-Consequence Connection. Has Gender Always Been Binary? All About Relationships Love is one of the most profound emotions known to human beings. Getting to Know You The reasons why we date. By Bjarne Holmes Ph. By Vinita Mehta Ph. Research shows how we distinguish flings from the real thing.
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She highlights the importance of women defining themselves, their needs and limits rather than emotionally distancing themselves from problems or over-reacting. She encourages women to explore their family of origin to clarify the genesis of non-adaptive behavior patterns. Discovering Your Couple Sexual Style: Discovering Your Couple Sexual Style urges couples to ignore what they see on TV and discover their own unique sexual style.
The McCarthys offer three guidelines for sexual satisfaction: With this foundation, couples can take a straightforward survey to determine which of four couple sexual styles best fits their relationship. An understanding of couple sexual styles can play a vibrant role in energizing a couple?
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Impact Award , Routledge. Offering a brief solution-oriented approach, Michele Weiner-Davis gives straight- forward and effective advice on how couples can stay together. Her approach focuses on the present and the future rather than the past, and on identifying problem-solving behavior that works. Many case histories illustrate techniques which can be used even if only one partner participates. Metz and Barry W. In Enduring Desire Metz and McCarthy provide real-life stories and helpful individual and couple exercises that help readers to reach for realistic and high quality sexual satisfaction as a couple.
The authors encourage couples to set positive and realistic sexual expectations without trying to live up to some imagined standard from the movies. Their message is down-to-earth and full of encouragement for all couples of any age. Emotional Fitness for Couples: Emotional Fitness for Couples offers you a step-by-step progam you can use to hone your relationship skills to championship levels?
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You can use this self help book alone, or you can try the exercises with your partner, going through the book in order or choosing those chapters most relevant to your particular goals. The authors argue that relationships fail primarily because psychological defenses formed in childhood act as a barrier to closeness in adulthood.
Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples Harville Hendrix. This popular self help book is divided into three sections: The third section is a course in relationship therapy which gives detailed exercises for both partners to follow in order to learn how to replace confrontational criticism with a healing process of mutual growth and support. After a traumatic experience? But what happens when you reach out and your partner can't reach back? One or both partners can use this practical, step-by-step program to recover from trauma or help their partner recover by understanding the impact of the trauma, learning to communicate their needs, managing anger, dealing with traumatic memories, recapturing lost intimacy, and recognizing their resiliency as a couple.
The Heart and Soul of Sex: Based on a landmark sex survey, researcher and sex therapist Ogden found "the language of spiritual experience comes closest to expressing the fullness of our sexual response, for it is the language of connection and ecstasy. When out-of-control emotions are the root cause of problems in a relationship, no amount of effective communication or intimacy building will fix what ails it. This self help book teaches you how to use mindfulness and distress tolerance techniques to de-escalate conflict situations before they have a chance to flare into serious fights.
He believes healthy marriage follows a repeated pattern of harmony, disharmony, and restoration; and teaches skills for accomplishing the crucial ongoing task of relationship repair, including holding the relationship in high regard, preserving intimacy, and using relational speaking, listening and negotiating skills. A practical and helpful self help book. Susan Page's ground-breaking approach to relationships gives readers the tools and encouragement they need to bring positive changes to their relationship, even when their partners are unwilling to do the work.
Step-by-step Page demonstrates that with tangible goals, and new ways of thinking, one partner can bring new levels of harmony and love to a relationship. If you've ever told your spouse,? I talk until I'm blue in the face,? It's in one ear and out the other,? You're about to discover why talking things out isn't always the best way to get through to your spouse or achieve more closeness and connection. More important, you'll learn exactly what you need to do today to truly transform your relationship forever.
This self help book offers readers a compassionate and effective strategy for recovery after their partner has cheated by identifying the three kinds of infidelity; overcoming the pain of betrayal; and learning to rebuild a healthier "affair-proof" relationship. Men and Women Together Lillian Rubin. This self help book explains how the differences between women and men arise and how they affect such critical issues as intimacy, sexuality, dependency, work and parenting. Lillian Rubin decodes human behavior with a lively combination of intuition and scholarship and offers hope for every man and woman who has yearned for an intimate relationship and wondered why it seemed so elusive.
The introvert best-selling author of The Introvert Advantage teams up with her extrovert husband to offer this warm and witty collection of tips for making the most of differing social needs, conflict styles, and personal priorities that are common to these kinds of "mixed" relationships. Journey of the Heart: This self help book stands out as a poetically written, wisdom-filled guide to a deeper understanding of the desires and directions of the human heart. The book does not provide easy answers or quick fixes; it gives instead superb suggestions for joining in the most powerful and spiritual union possible.
He shows people how the most difficult and confusing areas of relationships can be used to awaken the deepest human strengths and resources.
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This guide for singles who seek a loving and rewarding romantic relationship shows readers how to meet the challenges of a new relationship and avoid making the same mistakes, and how to deal with emotional issues and improve their odds of achieving the kind of relationship they most deeply want. Hendrix especially focuses on how to maintain a positive relationship with someone you love over the long term. For lesbians as for all couples achieving and sustaining intimacy remains a challenge.
From mind-reading and making assumptions to conflict and disillusionment, this self help book examines the strengths and weakness, flagging potential problem areas and offering real-life examples and solutions to the challenges lesbian couples experience. Psychologist Welwood challenges couples to approach difficulties as opportunities for spiritual growth rather than conflict. This is a self help guidebook for couples seriously committed to spiritual and personal growth.
Love in the Time of Colic: How do new parents, exhausted with sleepless nights, find the time and energy to continue the warm sexual relationship they enjoyed before becoming parents? Many couples struggle to find ways to even talk about the problem. It's the glue that holds couples together and keeps lovers from becoming simply roommates or co-parents. Funny and frank, Love in the Time of Colic will help parents take the charge out of this once-taboo subject, and put it back where it belongs? Loving Someone With Bipolar Disorder: This is a ground-breaking self help book for couples who want to prevent manic-depressive disorder from hijacking their relationship.
Once medication has been prescribed, the key is studying the specific ways your partner is affected. This allows couples to develop proactive strategies for treating and stabilizing mood swings and symptoms, before they develop into full-blown crises. This book is an oasis of relief and hope. Love Is Never Enough: Beck analyzes the most common problems in marriage: This highly rated self help book is filled with practical suggestions, exercises and encouragement.
Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic Esther Perel. Focusing on "erotic intelligence", psychotherapist Perel asserts that languishing desire in a relationship actually results from all the factors people look for in love and marriage: She recommends several proposals for rekindling eroticism: Perel sanctions fantasy and play and offers the estranged modern couple a unique richness of experience.
With strategies drawn from acceptance and commitment therapy ACT , a powerful therapeutic approach, The Mindful Couple will help you identify your core values and discover, as a couple, the beauty that is available to you and your partner when you bring greater awareness and values-guided behavior to your relationship. Each chapter explores a key issue, such as passion, fidelity, and the balance between dependence and independence, and includes specific practices you can do alone or with your partner to help you build a vital relationship.
The New Rules of Marriage: Author Real faces head-on the reality that many women are frustrated and angry with the struggle to achieve true emotional intimacy with their man. In recent decades, many women's responsibilities and aspirations have grown dramatically while many men's roles and expectations have not. Much marital dissatisfaction is rooted in men? Real points out that men are often driven by their desire to avoid feelings of shame, while women are often driven by fear. The New Rules coaches couples through techniques to address the resulting anguish and deadlock, gently but deftly leading both women and men toward a more comfortable and collaborative relationship.
Jenny Block is your average girl next door, a suburban wife and mother for whom married life never felt quite right. In Open , she paints a down to earth picture of how an open marriage can work, and specifically why it works for her and her husband. In dissecting other people? Open challenges our notions of what traditional marriage looks like, and presents one woman? Relationship expert and bestselling author Tristan Taormino offers a bold new strategy for creating loving, lasting relationships. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships—from partnered nonmonogamy to solo polyamory.
With her refreshingly down-to-earth style and sharp wit, Taormino offers solutions for making an open relationship work, including tips on dealing with jealousy, negotiating boundaries, finding community, parenting, and time management. Opening Up will change the way you think about intimacy. Schnarch says that a man is more likely to let a relationship suffer in order to hold on to his sense of self, while a woman is more apt to let her identity suffer to help strengthen a relationship.
Schnarch teaches how to find inner strength and resilience that can be used to reaffirm a relationship and reignite sex. A self help classic, highly recommended. The Power of Two: This practical guide for strengthening marriage offers advice for couples seeking to understand themselves and each other, including dealing with differences, supporting each other, building emotional and sexual intimacy, and living together with kindness. Infidelity and the Betrayal of Intimacy Frank Pittman. For people who suspect their spouses are having a secret romantic affair, or who are coping with the aftermath of one, this book offers sensible counsel.
Pittman, a psychiatrist, draws profiles of four basic patterns of betrayal: This self help book explores the whys and wherefores about infidelity and offers advice for both the unfaithful and the wounded partner. This self help book addresses a common relationship problem: The authors point out that there are many ways to defend yourself against someone else's desire to encourage, help or love you. This may occur through overvaluing your partner and feeling unworthy of his or her love or through devaluing that partner and seeing him or her as unworthy of giving love.
The authors provide concrete steps to help you learn how to receive love in the vulnerable context of an intimate relationship. This self help book speaks directly to the heart. Couples in conflict will recognize themselves in these pages and learn how to move beyond conflict to acceptance, understanding and change.
Sex and marital experts Barry and Emily McCarthy offer a ground-breaking ten-step program to help couples break down the barriers that have developed between them and rebuild closeness and longing. They then offer techniques and strategies to help couples revitalize desire and integrate intimacy and eroticism. Gottman offers a research-based approach to improving intimate relationships.
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The authors state that happiness is based on everyday communication that involves emotion and how other people respond or fail to respond to this communication. A five-step self help program shows readers how to improve their emotional communications. By showing couples how they can turn their worst sex and relationship disasters into personal growth and spiritual connection, Dr.