New Couple

by McGee, Seana; Taylor, Maurice

• ISBN13: 9781559213592
• ISBN10: 1559213590
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries

Summary

With fifty percent of marriages ending in divorce and the ever-increasing number of trial marriages, serial monogamists, and scared singles, attaining a happy, long-lasting relationship can seem hopelessly out of reach. Where can couples turn when the old rules don't work anymore? In the quest for safety, belonging, continuity, and comfort, we often fall back on traditional, deeply ingrained expectations and assumptions about relationships, including such stifling stereotypes as the "male provider and the good wife and mother. However these conventions ignore our individual needs to learn to love ourselves and to find and fulfill our true life's work, as well as our need for a more authentic, ongoing emotional connection to our mate. Taylor and McGee provide the keys for a deeper understanding of modern partners' "higher order needs" and the tools

Author Biography

Seana McGee and Maurice Taylor are licensed marriage and family therapists and founding directors of NewCouple, International. the husband and wife team has been leading seminars and counseling couples and singles internationally for the past twenty-two years. their NewCouple model has been embraced by governments, academics, clergy and other mental health professionals in North America, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia.Maurice Taylor, M.A., and Seana McGee, M.A. a married couple, are psycolotherapists specializing in couples counseling. They are internationally known relationship experts and founding directors of New Couple, Int'l., a seminar and lecture organization for couples and singles in Sausalito, California.