Reclaim Your Relationship : A Workbook of Exercises and Techniques to Help You Reconnect with Your Partner - Softcover

Potter-Efron, Patricia S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047174932X ISBN 13: 9780471749325

Publisher: Trade Paper Press, 2006

Synopsis

An interactive workbook to help couples reconnect

The simple phrase ""I love you"" is terribly important to people–so what keeps so many of us from saying it? In Reclaim Your Relationship, Ron and Pat Potter-Efron, marriage therapists who have been married for 37 years, combine their real-life and clinical experience in this practical and accessible workbook designed to help individuals improve connections in their relationships with those they love. Presenting engaging, hands-on exercises, the authors help readers learn to say ""I love you"" to their partners with ease and genuine meaning, show their partner love through consistent acts of caring, and take in their partner’s loving words and deeds without always demanding more.

Ron Potter-Efron, MSW, PhD and Pat Potter-Efron, MS (Eau Claire, WS) are psychotherapists in private practice. They are the authors of Letting Go of Anger (1-572-24001-6) and Letting Go of Shame (0-894-86635-4).

About this title

From the Back Cover

Say—and mean—the three little words that will save your relationship

"I love you" is probably the most important sentence in the English language: it can enrich your marriage on a good day and heal the worst wounds in bad times. But for many couples, saying and meaning it has fallen not only out of their vocabulary but also out of their marriage. Now, Ron and Pat Potter-Efron, marriage therapists who have been happily married for thirty-seven years, combine their real-life and clinical experience to help you improve your relationship.

Reclaim Your Relationship presents forty-six engaging, hands-on exercises to help you say "I love you" with ease and confidence while reaping the benefits of loving and being loved. Addressing the three types of people who have difficulty expressing their love—people who can't get the words out, people who can't show their love, and people who can't receive love—this interactive workbook shows you how to:

• Practice saying, showing, and accepting love
• Re-energize your relationship with your partner
• Address the special needs of the person in your life
• Love and express love even if you lacked demonstrative affection as a child
• Overcome the hurt of a bad relationship and reclaim your faith in real love
• Save a relationship that has drifted

Add depth, richness, wonder, and beauty to the most important relationship in your life with the help of Reclaim Your Relationship.

About the Author

RON POTTER-EFRON, M.S.W., P.h.D., and PAT POTTER-EFRON, M.S., are psychotherapists in private practice. They have written several successful books on the subject of anger and now, after thirty-seven years of marriage, are focusing on helping others achieve the same fulfillment and happiness they have known and been able to bring to their clients as marriage therapists.

Edition details

• Publisher: Trade Paper Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 047174932X
• ISBN 13: 9780471749325
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240