The Couple's Survival Workbook: What You Can Do to Reconnect With Your Partner and Make Your Marriage Work

by Olsen, David C.; Stephens, Douglas; Olsen, David, Ph.D.

• ISBN13: 9781572242548
• ISBN10: 157224254X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: New Harbinger Pubns Inc

Summary

In The Couple's Survival Workbook, two veteran psychologists show that the secret to marital longevity is deep, abiding friendship. Partners will learn to stop blaming and start focusing on their own contribution to the problem.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Part I
Why Is This So Much Work?	1	(10)
Ten Myths About Marriage	11	(14)
How Do I Keep Making Things Worse When I'm Trying So Hard?	25	(20)
Your Thinking Is Part of the Problem	45	(16)
How Beliefs Reinforce Each Other	61	(14)
I Swear There Are More People Here Than Just the Two of Us	75	(14)
Putting the Pieces Together	89	(14)
Can I Really Change This by Myself?	103	(14)
Part II
Staying in the Ring: Resolving Conflict in Your Relationship	117	(16)
Moving Toward Intimacy	133	(16)
Improving Your Sexual Relationship, or, I Can't Get No Satisfaction	149	(22)
Being a Couple with Kids	171	(20)
Remarried Couples: Mixing Families	191	(16)
Money and the Use of Power	207	(14)
The Journey of Long-term Marriage	221	(6)
References	227