Not A Partnership: Why We Keep Getting Marriage Wrong & How We Can Get It Right

What is a great marriage? What does a healthy marriage even look like? If we haven't seen one and can't define it, what hope do we have of building a great relationship?

Not A Partnership combines the world's oldest wisdom with 21st century Positive Psychology research & insight to define what a healthy marriage is -- and to give you practical steps to get one.

Whether your marriage is new, old -- or yet to come! -- Tod & Peter's experience and wisdom in guiding successful relationships can help guide you to a flourishing marriage centered on the other.

* Marriage Reset: Not A Partnership provides a clear guide to (1) why marriage can provide the most powerful and fulfilling source of human intimacy and happiness; (2) why we often fail to act in a way that makes marriage work; and (3) how we can establish great marriages - and fix broken ones - with proper understanding and attitude.

* Marriage Is For You: Besides its power to create and foster love and happiness, marriage creates the #1 opportunity to enhance your conduct & character. Tapping into your capacity to give, and to communicate, a great marriage helps us build the best possible version of ourselves.

* The book's Four Pillars of Giving -- (1) keeping it fresh, (2) gratitude, (3) respect in all its forms, and (4) all depends on me -- give a clear road map to how a successful marriage works, and the practical tools to bring it to life.

* Why another marriage book? Many books point to the HOW of marriage. Not A Partnership shows you the WHY and WHAT of marriage. Once we know what we're shooting for, we can successfully apply the practical steps to getting there.

* Your Kids! Happy marriages produce fulfilled spouses and a positive home. A happy, loving home is the greatest tool you can use to produce happy, optimistic and secure children. When we build our marriage, we not only improve ourselves, we also set our kids up for success.

Can anything be done to save marriage?

By the time we hit middle age, nearly all of us will have experienced marriage. More than 60% of unmarried people want to marry - and no surprise. Marriage represents the pinnacle of love, intimacy and security. Yet, unfortunately, about half of us fail in the venture. And that,too, is no surprise. Unlike almost every other arena in life, we enter marriage with little to no training and a vague, unclear vision of what a healthy marriage should look like. Lacking both a clear direction and a clear goal, it's no wonder that we seldom succeed in building a healthy, loving and lasting relationship. Not A Partnership is focused on giving the reader an in-depth definition of what marriage is -- and what it is not -- by taking some of the world's oldest wisdom and coupling it with 21st-century insight and relevance from the field of Positive Psychology. Besides painting a clear picture of what an ideal, yet attainable, marriage looks like, the book offers a series of practical steps that can lead us to the inspiring and uplifting relationship that we so want and deserve.