How to Save Your Marriage Alone (Mass Market Paperback)
December 15, 2009
Help for troubled marriages, especially for the person whose spouse is seeking a divorce, is here at last. Dealing with emotions, planning, decision-making, and the need to love, this book also contains two chapters excerpted from Love Life for Every Married Couple.
From the Back Cover
This best-selling book may be small, but it?s potent medicine for your marriage. Family physician, biblical counselor, and certified sex therapist Dr. Ed Wheat has helped thousands of troubled (more…)
The Sex-Starved Marriage: Boosting Your Marriage Libido: A Couple’s Guide (Paperback)
December 6, 2009
Amazon.com Review
In contrast to its tabloid title, The Sex-Starved Marriage offers candid and sensible counsel for couples with mismatched libidos. Seasoned sex therapist Michele Weiner-Davis skewers two stereotypes about sex in marriage. First, she jettisons the idea that husbands are hot and wives are not, giving examples of “low-desire” men in her practice. Next, she upends the longstanding model of sexual response and advises readers: “Just do it. Desire is a decision. Once the (more…)
Making Marriage Work
November 27, 2009
About the Actor
John Gottman is world renowned for his work on marital stability and divorce prediction, involving the study of emotions, physiology, and communication. His breakthrough research on marriage and parenting has earned him numerous major awards. He is the author or co-author of 119 published academic articles and 37 books. John has appeared on numerous TV programs, including: “Good Morning America,” “Today,” “CBS Morning News,” and “Oprah.” Articles about him have appea (more…)
The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Know to Make Love Work (Paperback)
November 18, 2009
Review
Advance praise for The New Rules of Marriage“Terry Real helps overturn old-fashioned, confining roles and opens up a treasury of hope for lasting and exciting intimacy for couples everywhere. This is a wonderful, joyful, and highly useful book.”–Edward Hallowell, M.D., author of Crazy Busy“Falling in love is easy, staying in love is another matter. Couples yearning for more closeness are truly in uncharted territory . . . until now, that is. This book offers amazing (more…)
Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs (Hardcover)
November 9, 2009
A Marriage Book with a Difference! A Revolutionary Message “I’ve been married 35 years and have not heard this taught.” “This is the key that I have been missing.” “A lightbulb moment.” “You connected all the dots for me.” “As a counselor, I have never been so excited about any material.” “You’re on to something huge here.” A Simple Message A wife has one driving need — to feel loved. When that need is met, she is happy. A husband has one driving need — to feel r (more…)
Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage: America’s Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship (Paperback)
October 31, 2009
In 1994, Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washingto— made a startling announcement: Through scientific observation and mathematical analysis, they could predict—with more than 90 percent accuracy—whether a marriage would succeed or fail. The only thing they did not yet know was how to turn a failing marriage into a successful one, so Gottman teamed up with his clinical psychologist wife, Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman, to develop intervention methods. Now (more…)
Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships (Paperback)
October 22, 2009
Amazon.com Review
Couples therapists often specialize in one or the other–sex or the relationship. It’s a ridiculous separation says marital and sex therapist David Schnarch, who believes sex is the all-telling barometer of a love relationship. Schnarch’s fundamental lesson is differentiation–the often threatening process of defining yourself as separate from your partner, which inevitably draws you closer to your partner than you ever dreamed possible. Schnarch uses dramati (more…)
We Can Work It Out: How to Solve Conflicts, Save Your Marriage (Paperback)
October 13, 2009
Based on national studies of more than one thousand couples, a three-part program guarantees that each partner’s feelings be expressed and understood, helps couples identify factors and underlying principles that create successful marriages, and guides them to positive change. Reprint.
Why Marriages Succeed or Fail: And How You Can Make Yours Last (Paperback)
October 4, 2009
From Kirkus Reviews
From psychology professor (Univ. of Washington) and marriage researcher Gottman: an upbeat, easy-to-follow manual based on research into the dynamics of married couples. Gottman describes his studies as being akin to a CAT scan of a living relationship and asserts that he’s been able to predict the future of marriages with an accuracy rate of over 90 percent. In 1983 and 1986, his research team monitored more than a hundred married couples in Indiana and I (more…)
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The Four Seasons of Marriage (Paperback)
September 25, 2009
From Publishers Weekly
Chapman, author of the longstanding megaseller The Five Love Languages, uses his years of marriage counseling and leading marriage seminars as the basis for his thesis that marriages repeatedly go through periods that can be characterized by the seasons of the year. He begins by describing winter, times when marriages are marked by “coldness, harshness, and bitterness.” Spring is “where most marriages begin,” while summer is filled with fun. He compares an aut (more…)
