Taking Space: How to Use Separation to Explore the Future of Your Relationship

Robert J. Buchicchio

ISBN 10: 0977456803 / ISBN 13: 9780977456802

Published by Charler Pub, 2006

About this Item

Charles Publishing. 2006. Montpelier, VT. Trade paperback format. Two pages had short corner page folds, now straightened, and there is a 1 1/4 inch pen mark on page 134. There is no other writing in the book, which has been well taken care of and is clean, with a strong spine and a strong binding. Includes a 3-page bibliography and a 2-page section of further reading. 320 pages. Securely packed in a lidded box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Taking Space: How to Use Separation to Explore the Future of Your Relationship
• Publisher: Charler Pub
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0977456803
• ISBN 13: 9780977456802
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

With the high rate of divorce and breakups, marriage and family experts point to the fact that people don't learn from the mistakes of a failed relationship and assume the next relationship will be better, making little effort to fix or understand what didn't work.

There are plenty of self-help books for committed couples on how to enrich a marriage and scores of guidebooks on how to manage through a divorce, but very few focus on partners with differing degrees of commitment where the separation process itself is viewed as an opportunity for self-growth.

Taking Space: How to Use Separations to Explore the Future of Your Relationship provides struggling couples and individuals with a step-by-step process for managing separations. This model allows people to view and use separations as a proactive way to get space, reduce conflict, and focus on self-growth. This method can even work with a non-cooperating partner. This problem-solving road map teaches partners how to design a separation plan that addresses their specific issues by pinpointing 10 essential tasks necessary to maneuver through an often highly stressful experience. The steps are applied through real-life couple situations. Skills, techniques, and coping strategies to empower individuals to overcome feelings of helplessness and victim thinking help create choices where none have been seen previously.

Once partners have the tools and time to manage psychological and/or physical separations, they are often better able to make an informed decision about the future of their relationship. Taking Space helps couples use separation to learn, develop, and then recommit to their relationship with adjusted expectations, perspectives, skills, and a stronger sense of themselves.

About the Author

Robert J Buchicchio, LICSW, DCSW, has conducted couples workshops throughout his professional career. He has taught at Vermont College and Norwich University; was the executive director of the West Yavapai Mental Health Clinic in Prescott, AZ; and was the chief social worker at the US Army Hospital in Seoul, South Korea.