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About Strengthening Your Marriage
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The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work By: John Gottman and Nan Silver ISBN: 0609805797 This is a really good research-based book which helps you assess your own relationship. It includes exercises to improve your marriage. |
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Divorce Busting By: Michele Weiner-Davis ISBN: 0671797255 A step-by-step guide of strategies to improve your marriage, and prevent divorce by learning positive solutions rather than focusing on problems. |
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Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus By: John Gray ISBN: 0060574216 This book is extremely popular and has some good ideas about the differences between men and women. Understanding gender differences can be helpful if it does not contribute to stereotyping or abdication of personal responsibility. |
About Recovering After an Affair
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After the Affair By: Janis Abrams Spring ISBN: 0060928174 This is an excellent book which explains to partners how they can help themselves through the shattering crisis of infidelity. It contains proven strategies addressing questions such as Why did the affair happen? Will love and trust ever return? Can or should I recommit when I feel so ambivalent? How do we become sexually intimate again? Is forgiveness possible? |
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How Can I Forgive You? By: Janis Abrams Spring ISBN: 0060009314 This book helps you learn to let go of the anger and pain caused by betrayal in a marriage, a friendship or with your parents. |
About Coping After Separation/Divorce
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Rebuilding When Your Relationship Ends By: Bruce Fisher and Robert Alberti ISBN: 1886230692 A best seller for many years, this book has been helpful for those hurting after a divorce. It is a step-by-step program to help putting your life back together with the right balance of shoulder-to-cry-on and kick-in-the-pants to help you through. |