Couple Skills: Making Your Relationship Work

Love takes work, but, when it comes to relationships, it pays to work smarter. Couple Skills, Second Edition, revised and updated from the therapist-recommended classic, will show you how to work smarter in your relationship. You'll learn to improve communication, cope better with problems, and resolve conflicts with the one you love in healthy and creative ways. Each chapter teaches you an essential skill that supports greater relationship satisfaction and deeper intimacy.

New to this edition is a chapter on using acceptance skills, developed from the revolutionary new acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). These new approaches will help you to accept your partner's feelings (and your own emotions) without judgment. Using these techniques will help you decide what you really value in your relationship and then commit to acting in ways that further those values every day.

• When the Past Is Present: Healing the Emotional Wounds that Sabotage our Relationships
• I Love You But I Don't Trust You: The Complete Guide to Restoring Trust in Your Relationship
• The Relationship Cure: A 5 Step Guide to Strengthening Your Marriage, Family, and Friendships
• Communication Miracles for Couples: Easy and Effective Tools to Create More Love and Less Conflict
• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
• 47 Little Love Boosters for a Happy Marriage: Connect and Instantly Deepen Your Bond No Matter How Busy You Are (Amazingly Simple Little Things Successful Couples Do Series) (Volume 1)
• No More Fighting: The Relationship Book for Couples: 20 Minutes a Week to a Stronger Relationship
• Love Is Never Enough: How Couples Can Overcome Misunderstandings, Resolve Conflicts, and Solve Relationship Problems Through Cognitive Therapy
• Love, Sex and Staying Warm: Creating a Vital Relationship
• Deal Breakers: When to Work On a Relationship and When to Walk Away