Marriage

The Engagement
Something New: Reflections on the Beginnings of a Marriage
by Amanda Beesley
For unmarried people in love and still on speaking terms with their families, holidays bring on difficult choices. The boyfriend and girlfriend want to be with each other, but both sets of parents want their still-single children home for one of the last

Moonlight, Roses, and Prenups
Prenups for Lovers: A Romantic Guide to Prenuptial Agreements
by Arlene G. Dubin
After a twelve-year marriage and a seven-year divorce proceeding, I married a lifelong bachelor. How did we do it? Although the complete answer could be the subject of another book, a principal reason is our prenuptial agreement.

Your Spouse: A Friend or a Lover?
Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy
by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
One of the rules of dating is that when a man tires of the woman he is seeing (or in many cases when a woman tires of a man), he cannot simply call her up and end it. No, that would be too heartless and cruel. Rather, dumping her comes in the form of the

Inside the Seattle Love Lab: The Truth about Happy Marriages
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
by John M. Gottman, Ph.D.
It's a surprisingly cloudless Seattle morning as newlyweds Mark and Janice Gordon sit down to breakfast. Outside the apartment's picture window, the waters of Montlake cut a deep-blue swath, while runners jog and geese waddle along the lakeside park.

How We Connect Emotionally
The Relationship Cure: A 5 Step Guide to Strengthening Your Marriage, Family, and Friendships
by John M. Gottman, Ph.D.
A work team at one of Seattle's floundering Internet companies has a problem that's common in many workplaces: They can't communicate with their boss. If you catch a few team members at a local tavern after hours, you're likely to hear an exchange

How Great Is Your Marriage?
Emotional Infidelity: How to Affair-Proof Your Marriage and 10 Other Secrets to a Great Relationship
by M. Gary Neuman
Answer the following fifteen questions, then tabulate your responses to find out how your marriage stacks up. 1. Your spouse has gained ten pounds and says to you, 'I've really put on a few pounds lately.

Are You an HSP? Temperament, Love, and Sensitivity
The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You
by Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.
I fall in love so damn hard. I feel like an alien sometimes. Everyone else seems to be in a relationship. But what they call love just doesn't appeal to me. Investments, cars, sports, getting ahead at work-I don't say it, but I've zero interest in those

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life Together
The Thoroughly Modern Married Girl : Staying Sensational After Saying "I Do"
by Sara Bliss
One of your first big decisions as a dynamic duo is to decide what your new handle will be. Some of you Married Girls were ready to link your first names with his last the very second Your Guy first sent a sexy smile your way.

Part 1, Part 2
Don't You Dare Get Married Until You Read This! The Book of Questions for Couple
by Corey Donaldson
There is very little optimism left in this world when it comes to the institution of marriage. The U.S. Census Bureau reports the following statistics: Since 1970 there has been a decline of more than one-third in the annual number of marriages per one

How to Be a Couple And Still Be Free
How to Be a Couple and Still Be Free
by Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D.
In fifteen years of working with couples in private therapy and workshops, we have found that no matter how unsolvable a problem seems to the couple presenting it, when we help them apply Cooperative Problem Solving a solution can always be found.

Why Be a Couple and Free?
How to Be a Couple and Still Be Free
by Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D.
Why did you pick up this book? Are you intrigued to think it is possible to be a couple and still be free? How can you be true to yourself and true to your partner at the same time? If you honor yourself, will your partner leave?

The Loving Gift of Being Fully Present
Wake Up or Break Up: 8 Crucial Steps to Strengthening Your Relationship
by Leonard Felder, Ph.D.
What would it be like if you and your partner became excellent listeners on a daily basis? For example, think back through the months or years you have known your partner and recall the times when the two of you talked like best friends who truly cared

Retirement Is Wonderful
Retirement for Two
by Maryanne Vandervelde, Ph.D.
One of the reasons that so many couples have problems in retirement is that they don't anticipate the changes accurately. It is optimistic and rather charming that so many people think retirement will be wonderful. For example, Prudential Securities did a

The Issues
Retirement for Two
by Maryanne Vandervelde, Ph.D.
When I was thirty-six, I moved across the country because my husband was offered a great new job. I eventually landed on my feet, but I couldn't find any books about what was happening to me-my career, my friendships, my relationship with my child

Introduction
Opening to Love 365 Days a Year
by Judith Sherven, Ph.D., James Sniechowski, Ph. D.
We've written Opening to Love 365 Days a Year because we know that most people never receive any meaningful training or preparation for enjoyable, effective dating, or for creating a healthy and vital marriage.

What is a Healthy Relationship Anyway?
The Intimacy Struggle: Revised and Expanded for All Adults
by Janet Woititz
What does a healthy relationship look like? What does it feel like? How do I get one? How will I know if I have one? These are very important and real questions that need to be addressed.

Chapter 1
The 7 Best Things Happy Couples Do... plus one
by John Friel, Ph.D., Linda Friel
After twenty-one years of living together in a marriage, decades of scientific theories and data about relationships, and an amalgam of what we've gathered from our years of working with people in therapy settings, no matter how we think of them or try

The Old, Old Story
Happiness And Marriage
by Elizabeth Towne
This is the springtime, when fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love and everybody wants to go a-soul-mating. Consequently my mail is leavened with letters from those who are unhappily married but who are sure they have got their eye on the One who from t

The Truth about Divorce
Happiness And Marriage
by Elizabeth Towne
In January Psychic and Occult Views and Reviews the editor, M.T.C. Wing, presents a view of Wives and Work which is anything but an occult view of the subject. He evidently still clings to the old notion that man was made for the family

The Family Jar
Happiness And Marriage
by Elizabeth Towne
If a man and woman love each other and are every way suited to marry should they yield to the opposition of his grown daughter? M.A. This question in varying forms comes to me often. It always stirs within me something I used to call righteous indignation