Draws on interviews with dozens of women who have remained married in spite of high divorce rates, revealing the agreements they share with their partners to keep their marriages strong and describing how they each maintain an independent identity.

Dr. Joshua Coleman is a caring psychologist who nonetheless isn't afraid to tell the truth: not all marriages can be joyful at all times, but that isn't a cause for divorce, especially with children involved. Even if your marriage is never going to be the one you dreamed of, you can still live happily ever after. Dr. Coleman provides wise and compassionate advice on becoming a happy person in an unhappy situation. In this groundbreaking work, Dr....

Cheerfully honest, sometimes startling-and just a bit dirty-HUMP is a smart, subversive look behind real-life parental bedroom doors Hump puts the lie to the conventional wisdom that once your children are born, your sex life dies. Hump is the chronicle of how a wide variety of couples have reclaimed their former, more sexy selves even amid the chaos of households teeming with young children. Hump is organized into thought-providing sections, including...

"Good People Are Bad At Relationships One night during his divorce, after one too many vodkas and a call with a phone-in-therapist who told him to "journal his feelings," Matthew Fray started a blog attempting to piece together the story of how his ex-wife went from the 18-year-old college freshman who adored him to the angry woman who thought he was an asshole before she left him to have sex with someone else. It turned out that even though he was...

Direnfeld explains the ten deadly sins of a failing relationship and, and shows you how to unravel the problems associated with them in order to create the marriage of your dreams.

A road map to having a vibrant, long-term love affair. Marriage is an exercise in busy. It's not-by any stretch of the imagination-a spontaneous experience. Unlike the dating years, when we willingly flung every responsibility to the wind to be in our lover's arms, marriage conspires to pull us earth-bound, distracting us from love with weighty responsibilities, insistent duties, and insane time pressures. We've got jobs and family obligations. We've...

"Whether by choice, a side benefit of working from home (reality for more and more couples), a health need, job layoff, a by-product of retirement, temporary circumstance or permanent, when a husband and wife find themselves occupying the same space for prolonged periods of time, the bliss of marriage can form blisters. They rub each other the wrong way, find there's not enough oxygen in the house for both of them, and trip over each other's physical...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports that 80 percent of childhood abuse victims later suffer from at least one abuse-induced psychological disorder. It's proven that the effects of childhood abuse follow women into adulthood. Yet few men are prepared to deal with those effects, even when their own wife is the one who is suffering. And their wife's suffering becomes their own suffering as their needs aren't being met by a wife who...

Presents the culmination of marriage expert and clinical psychologist John M. Gottman's life's work in the form of seven principles for a long-lasting, harmonious marriage.