Can This Marriage Be Saved? [Paperback]

Margery D. Rosen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 12, 1994

It's a publishing phenomenon. Introduced forty years ago, Ladies' Home Journal's' CAN THIS MARRIAGE BE SAVED?' is the most popular, most enduring women's magazine feature in the world. Drawing every month from the files of professional counselors and therapists, CAN THIS MARRIAGE BE SAVED?' presents stories of real-life couples in distress and their efforts to overcome it. Now for the first time ever, CAN THIS MARRIAGE BE SAVED?' is transformed into a book. Selected by series' editor Margery D. Rosen, here is a compilation of the feature's most interesting cases. Scattered throughout are Skill Builders, Do's and Don'ts, Ten Things Never to Argue About, exercises, quizzes, role-playing dialogues and other sidebar material. Selection of the Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service, Doubleday Book Club, and Health Book Club.

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From the Back Cover

HEARTBREAK TO HARMONY

"Can This Marriage Be Saved? Has the potential to lead you along the path of marital enlightenment . . . as you learn from people who have shared with you the most intimate details of their lives. They offer you a great gift: the ability to love wisely. Accept it."

--From the Foreword by Sonya Friedman, Ph.D.

Author of Secret Loves: Women with Two Lives

Presented for the first time in book form, here are selected cases from Ladies' Home Journalr's "Can This Marriage Be Saved?r"-the ongoing and most popular magazine feature ever.

Couples on the verge of divorce tell their stories to a marriage counselor or therapist in intimate detail, spotlighting the danger points common to every relationship. The competition for Power and Control. Communication and the Mind-Reader Syndrome ("If she loved me, she'd know what was wrong.") The inevitability of Anger, and the three unhealthy ways people deal with it-nursing it, denying it, venting it. And, of course, Sex, Money, and the key to it all, Trust. First she talks. Then he talks. Then the therapist talks. And you hear it all. Selection of the Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service, Doubleday Book Club, and Health Book Club.

Ladies' Home Journalr introduced "Can This Marriage Be Saved?r" in 1954. It is the most widely read column in magazine history.

About the Author

For the past twenty years, Margery D. Rosen has edited the "Can This Marriage Be Saved" column for the Ladies' Home Journal.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company (January 12, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563056283
• ISBN-13: 978-1563056284
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #352,588 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very insightful and educative and reassuring., January 22, 1999

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This review is from: Can This Marriage Be Saved? (Paperback)

A lot of people call me a pessimist but as the last remaining single male wanting to have a flawless, infidelity free, marriage I wanted to know the worst case scenarios of what could go wrong in a marriage and be prepared to deal with it which is why I bought the book. After studying the unbiased cases in the book I must say I am a better person.

It presents real life cases in real life language that real people can understand and in my opinion the average 'relationship' is affected by at least 70% of these challenges.

It may have been titled 'can this relationship be saved?' beacuse the lessons can be applied to all manner of male/female(gay!!) emotional interactions. It's particularly surprising how seemingly doomed marriages make a good turnaround for the better with a little effort from parties involved.

'There is hope', 'real world drama'

It's not a book you'll read cover to cover in a day but you're sure to find youself mirrored in a few of its pages.

For sheer entertainment it's a good read and I highly reccommend it to anyone wanting to make a success of their relationship.

Yole Akinnawo.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for couples and singles, August 16, 2011

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This review is from: Can This Marriage Be Saved? (Paperback)

This is a great book for people who relate best to marriage advice when they can picture themselves in the same situations as others. It has great information on how to deal with difficult people, how to change how you react to things, and great examples of how other people have gotten past things. If this reflective type of Self Help Style works for you, then this is a great book for your purposes. I've read the column since I was 13 years old and it really helped me build a functional relationship. Because of it I never settled into OK relationships. Reading the book as a newlywed and then reading it again after 10 years of marriage, has brought new insight into different stages of my marriage and reminded me of things to work on. My husband and I actually read the first few chapters together. It was great.

5.0 out of 5 stars Where can I get volume 2?, September 11, 2009

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This review is from: Can This Marriage Be Saved? (Paperback)

This is a collection of articles from the magazine called Ladies Home Journal. It is the longest magazine column ever. It is a great resource for personal and professional use. I have read many from the journal over the years. This book compiles years of columns and divides them topically. I have read these columns (chapters) that provide both sides of the marriage from each spouse and a note from the counselor. You learn to observe and identify yourself and others as you read. I have often recommended to couples who are struggling and I have used the same strategy that counselors use to help the couples.