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Staying happily married has become a difficult proposition in recent times. Although the institution is still firmly embedded in our culture, divorce rates have steadily climbed since the 1960s. While some marriages are truly divorce-worthy, many other broken marriages can be saved. Recent emphasis on personal needs and greater social acceptance of divorce and alternative lifestyles may have weakened the resolve of partners to work through their problems....
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Warning! New parents are likely to experience:
Scorekeeping—An exceedingly complex, often relentless, tit-for-tat war waged by husbands and wives over the division of parenting responsibilities and domestic chores.
The Ten O'Clock Shoulder Tap—Considered by many men to be a form of foreplay. A paw on a wife's shoulder is how some men indicate their desire for sex. The Tap is rarely accompanied by a term of endearment or
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"A hilariously candid account of one woman's quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, with life-changing, real-world advice."--Amazon.com.
"Many expectant parents spend weeks researching the best crib or safest car seat, but spend little if any time thinking about the titanic impact the baby will have on their marriage--and the way their marriage will affect their child. Enter Jancee, her well-meaning but blithely unhelpful husband,...
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"Drawing on 30 years of following up about what did and didn't work years after couples took his nationwide "Role Mate to Soul Mate" workshops, The New York Times bestselling author Dr. Warren Farrell solved the two most important barriers to sustaining love: handling personal criticism without becoming defensive; and preventing complacency from replacing passion"--
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The national bestseller in its complete form. Once upon a time, Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together because they respected and accepted their differences. Then they came to Earth and amnesia set in: they forgot they were from different planets. Using this metaphor to illustrate the commonly occurring conflicts between men and women, Dr. John Gray explains how these differences can come between the sexes and...
8) Love busters: protect your marriage by replacing love- busting patterns with love-building habits
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The essential companion to the bestselling His Needs, Her Needs, this book explains how six love-busting habits in marriage can be replaced by six love-building habits.
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Husbands are commanded to love their wives. But do you know what really makes your wife feel loved? Are you tired of missed cues and confusing signals?
Everyone has a primary love language-quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, or physical touch. In The Five Love Languages Men's Edition, New York Times bestselling author Dr. Gary Chapman guides husbands in identifying, understanding, and speaking their wife's love language.
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If you really know your spouse, you can fall in love with them all over again.
48 Hours to a Stronger Marriage is a strong and simple book that can help you close what author Bob Bowersox calls "the intimacy gap." When Bob discovered that he and his wife of twelve years, Toni, had drifted apart, he was determined to keep their marriage alive. The core of the problem? Though they still loved each other, Bob and his wife no longer knew each other very...
13) Communication miracles for couples: easy and effective tools to create more love and less conflict
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Many 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 this little book. In just a few minutes, you'll learn how to: Feel totally loved; Never argue again; Get your partner to really hear you; Repair broken trust; Create lasting harmony and keep love alive.
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Time after time, His Needs, Her Needs has topped the charts as the bestselling marriage book available. In this classic book, Dr. Willard F. Harley, Jr., identifies the 10 most vital needs of men and women and shows husbands and wives how to make their marriage sizzle by satisfying those needs in their spouses. He provides guidance for becoming irresistible to your spouse and for loving more creatively and sensitively, thereby eliminating the problems...
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"Marriage can be surprisingly difficult when you're first starting out. Newly married couples face a tremendous challenge that is seldom talked about. In our social media-driven world, it's easy to think that everyone else has it together in their marriages and wonder if maybe you made a mistake. The truth is, most couples don't enter marriage with the communication or attachment skills needed to deal with the integration of two lives. The Merge for...
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Truly Mars and Venus celebrates the wisdom of the number one international bestseller Men Are from Mars, Women Are From Venus.
With passages drawn from John Gray's groundbreaking classic on relationships, this beautiful book is illustrated with humorous cartoons and charming artwork by Barbara State.
The perfect gift for a loved one or for yourself, Truly Mars and Venus delivers John Gray's rich and inspiring advice for creating and sustaining healthy...
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Keep Your Marriage Strong
“Written by a licensed relationship therapist and a divorce attorney, if you read this book, you won’t need the services of either! ” ―Becca Anderson, author of Let Me Count the Ways
#1 New Release in Sociology of Marriage & Family
Couples communication and relationship experts David Bulitt and Julie Bulitt share their relational knowledge in this
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Finally, a book about open marriage that grapples with the problems surrounding monogamy and fidelity in an honest, heartfelt, and non-fringe manner. Jenny Block is your average girl next door, a suburban wife and mother for whom married life never felt quite right. While many books on this topic presuppose that the reader is ready to embrace an 'alternative lifestyle," Block operates from the assumption that most couples who are curious about or...
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"For the last several years, Penn and Kim Holderness have done the hard maintenance and the research. With the help of their marriage coach Dr. Christopher Edmonston, they break down their biggest (and in some cases, funniest) fights. How did a question about chicken wings turn into a bra fight (no, not a bar fight; a bra fight)? How did a roll of toilet paper lead to tears, resentment, and a stint in the guest bedroom? With their trademark sense...
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Going beyond traditional marriage counseling which can often discount the influence of ADHD, this discussion offers advice from the author's personal experience and years of research and identifies patterns of behavior that can hurt marriages--such as nagging, intimacy problems, sudden anger, and memory issues--through the use of vignettes and descriptions of actual couples and their ADHD struggles and solutions.