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The path from marital bliss to discontent is paved with everyday decisions that either build up or tear down your relationship... You can learn to make better decisions–and with each right choice that you make, you clear the way for a lifetime of love.
Just as you can choose to be happy, you can choose to be happily married. Happy marriages, like happy lives, are made up of the many small decisions you make moment to moment as you go about living your life with your beloved. You can choose to react badly every time you find the toothpaste uncapped–or you can choose to react rightly.
In this groundbreaking guide, renowned couples’ counselor and bestselling author Dr. Bonnie Jacobson identifies twenty-five of the everyday situations that can make or break your marriage. She shows you how to respond in ways that not only reduce conflict, but also build intimacy, sustain passion, and enrich your lives together–each and every day!
Contents: Part 1: Flexibility • Responsive versus Reactive • Good Judgment versus Critical Judgment • Expressing you True Self versus Conforming to a Role • Autonomy versus Isolation • Surrender versus Submission • Establishing Space versus Neglect • Patience versus Passivity • Benign Boundaries versus Emotional Tyranny • Awareness of Limits versus Emotional Recklessness • Embracing Change versus Preserving the Status Quo • Part 2: Communication: Taking Responsibility versus Blame • Needs versus Wants • Detach versus Withdraw • Speaking Up versus Silence • Giving the Benefit of the Doubt versus Making Assumptions • Intimate Listening versus Hearing • Influence versus Control • Constructive Criticism versus Destructive Criticism • Part 3: Personal Power • Deciding versus Craving • Fighting Fair versus Fighting Unfair • Support versus Protection • Forgiving versus Forgetting, Good Selfish versus Bad Selfish • Family Loyalty versus Self-Interest • Joy versus Happiness • Appendix: The Emotional Turning Point Test.
ISBN - 9781605506258
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Pages : 256
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