Can Your Relationship Be Saved?: How to Know Whether to Stay or Go (Rebuildingbooks)

“The title of this book captures one of the most commonly explored issues that I have dealt with in my office over the past three decades as a practicing clinical psychologist.” Thus begins Dr. Broder's wise and compassionate guide to assessing a faltering love relationship, and answering the fundamental question asked by the book's title. Broder addresses individuals and couples in marriages, or any other type of love relationship or romance -- long- or short-term, and of any sexual orientation. His 40-item "Can Your Relationship Be Saved?" Inventory asks the rights questions. But readers are not left there. The chapters that follow gently guide them in exploration of what is likely to happen if...? What if I go? What if I stay? Readers will find direction in answering those questions for themselves, and the information and strategies to help them act on their decisions. Can Your Relationship Be Saved? speaks—in a warm, unabashedly upbeat and optimistic manner—directly to the painful ambivalence that results when you are unable to determine how you really feel. Broder's guidance is packed with practical road maps and direction finders, avoiding glibness, cliches, pat answers or “someone else's value judgments that will rarely hold up for you in the end.”

Michael S. Broder, PhD, is a psychologist, media personality, author and popular speaker. An acclaimed expert on relationship/lifestyle issues and short-term, results-oriented psychotherapy, he is author of numerous self-help audio programs and popular books, including The Art of Living Single and The Art of Staying Together.

Broder was the first president of the Media Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association. He has hosted psychology oriented talk radio programs in Philadelphia and New York, as well as for the NBC Talknet and ABC Talkradio networks. He has been featured on Oprah, the Today Show and many other television programs, and in major newspapers and magazines. He lives and practices in Philadelphia.