Fighting for Your Marriage: Positive Steps for Preventing Divorce and Preserving Lasting Love - Softcover

Markman, Howard J.; Stanley, Scott M.; Blumberg, Susan L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787902802 ISBN 13: 9780787902803

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1996

Synopsis

Conflict in intimate relationships is as normal and essential as love. How you fight and resolve conflicts determines the difference between a sustained healthy and satisfying marriage or endless pain, frustration, and often divorce. At a time when families are falling apart at alarming rates and with enormous social cost, this book provides a research-based program to prevent relationship breakdown. The new audiotape set provides the key to the communication skills of PREPTM.

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About the Author

HOWARD J. MARKMAN, Ph.D., noted marital expert, is co-director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver and specializes in research on the prediction and prevention of marital breakdown. SCOTT STANLEY, Ph.D., is co-director of the center and adjunct associate professor of marital and family therapy at Fuller Theological Seminary, and he specializes in research on marital commitment. SUSAN L. BLUMBERG, Ph.D., a psychologist who works with families and couples, has focused on training and research in the PREPTM approach.

From the Back Cover

With a fresh and unique perspective, the authors of this powerful guide combine 25 years of university-based research with couples-counseling experience. They outline their highly acclaimed PREP-TM (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program) approach for helping couples beat the odds and master the skills that can prevent marital distress and divorce. They reveal, for example, research that highlights the major difference between men and women in relationships--the way they fight--and how shared commitment is essential for fair fighting between partners.At the And of each chapter, the authors provide engaging exercises for practicing sensible new tactics for dealing with minor irritations or tough and sensitive issues. Step by step, they describe how to establish ground rules that provide the safety and structure needed to handle issues well.

From the Inside Flap

All you need is love? Wrong. The authors of Fighting for Your Marriage contAnd that conflict in intimate relationships is as normal and essential as love. It's how you fight and resolve conflicts determines the difference between a sustained healthy and satisfying marriage or Andless pain, frustration, and often divorce. At a time when families are falling apart at alarming rates and with enormous social cost, we now have a research-based program to prevent relationship breakdown.The authors combine their twenty-five years of university-based research and counseling experiences with thousands of couplesfrom newly engaged to veteranto present the powerful, proven strategies of the highly acclaimed PREPTM (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program) approach for helping couples beat the odds and master the skills that can prevent marital distress and divorce. They reveal, for example, research that highlights the major difference between men and women in relationships--it's the way they fightand how shared commitment is essential for fair fighting between partners.The new video set lets you watch couples discover how to talk, listen, and solve problems together.The new audiotape set provides the key to the communication skills of PREPTM.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787902802
• ISBN 13: 9780787902803
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352