101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married: Simple Lessons to Make Love Last
By:
Linda Bloom Charlie Bloom
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With the divorce rate spiking at a dizzying 60 percent, it's safe to assume that young couples and experienced partners alike may lack the skills and understanding necessary to sustain a committed relationship. Psychotherapists Linda and Charlie Bloom present 101 techniques delivering practical guidance and make it clear that, regardless of past experience, anyone can develop the basic strengths, skills, and capacities needed for a great relationship. Each lesson is presented as a simple, one-line thought followed by an explanation using real life examples - from the authors' own experiences in sustaining their marriage of 31 years to those of the thousands of couples they've professionally counseled or who have taken the Blooms' life relationship seminars. This book demonstrates how anyone can find ways out of a painful relationship, and how couples can enrich their own relationships through working through love's challenges.
Publisher: New World Library
Customer Review: 4 out of 5
Don't Believe Everything You Hear - A nicely written book which I do not think anyone who feels they are deeply in love will pay any attention to at all, even though they should. Mose women are so indocumented into the Cinderella story and so ran by their hormones that they would may read it but would not take it to hear.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
a good read for anyone, at any stage of relationship or not in relationship at all - This book is full of short, food for thought, stories that you as a reader can say, "I've been there." It doesn't tell you how to solve the problem you might have but instead, gives light to thinking process. Such as "Your greatest weakness become your greatest strength." If it is not you, then you know someone who fits this... so I asked myself... did I help or hinder? It was nice to read from a 3rd person point of view. Bought one for each of my kids, they all like it. They say the title is wrong.. should be "101 things I read before dating, arguing with parent, going to work, getting out of bed or loving my self. A great book!
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
A must read for anyone unhappy in thier relationship - I discovered this book while listening to the authors discuss it on a podcast from stayhappilymarried.com, and thought I'd check it out. I don't normally rave about these kinds of books. Having read many I usually find something that just doesn't seem right, or is asking for more than I think is relevant. Fixing a marriage is not something you can read, it is something you do. But this book is (and was for me) the eye opener. There are no exercises, no gender bias or even expectations. It's just a reference guide with page after page of good information. Just that. Information. The difference though is just how easily you can relate to everything written. Perhaps everything is a little bit of an exaggeration, but you will be surprised at just how much you can see yourself in or relate to, many of the 101 items. Sometimes even in the chapter title alone. This applies for either the Husband or Wife.
Admittedly some of the examples or elaborations of the point being made are worse case or farfetched (though genuine) to your own situations. But you can easily see the relevance in your own way because of the clarity of description. And that really is the point. Read this together to start a conversation. Read it alone and start to understand a relationship's dynamics. But I have to recommend that you read it AND take action. I found myself compelled to do so, without any suggestion or direction from the book itself. As I said, an eye-opener. Good luck, I hope others can benefit from this book as I have.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Mandatory Reading! - This book is a must read for anyone who is in a relationship, recently out of one, and/or planning to go into one. I get something from it every time I crack the spine. It's a gem. Short snippits, to-the-point, and as true as can be.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Things you should know - This book provided excellent information for me and my fiancee and actually helped us work thru a couple of road blocks we were having. I highly recommend this book
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