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Couples Companion: Meditations & Exercises for Getting the Love You Want: A Workbook for Couples

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If you're committed to taking the time each day to do the exercises in this book, you can make significant improvements in your marriage or relationship. My spouse and I found it to be a useful adjunct to therapy, and we are closer now than ever before, and we understand each other much better. Sometimes the exercises seem a little hokey, but if you trust the authors that they do have a reason behind what they're asking of you, you'll find that the little doses of daily insight, plus just spending time together each day, can work wonders! As a clinical psychologist, I was impressed both personally and professionally. It's good for any type of committed couple, straight or gay, too, which is nice.

If you and your partner have the patience to work through this together, it will enhance your understanding of your own motives as well as your partners. My partner and I are about 1/2 way through and I can honestly say that the improvement in our relationship has been so substantial that I went from depressed/hopeless/thinking of leaving to committed to making it work--together.

Great book for couples to improve communication, increase mutual understanding and reromanticize the relationship. I am a Marriage Family Therapsit and recommend Harveille Hendrix's books to all the couples I see. This particular book is broken down in a way that busy couples can spend 20 minutes a day to share one page. This book helps partners who might normally feel overwhelmed by self help books or have difficulty discussing relationship issues. You just can't go wrong with this book!

Well written. I read Harville's work first (Getting the Love You Want). Understood the concepts yet struggled with implementation.
Helen's work (based on Harville's concepts) turns it into small doable steps. They may not seem like much, until you do them. And there may be some resistance to actually doing them! Do it anyway. Significantly improved my marriage.

I loved this book. Two books by Mark Waldman include Hendrix's work and are also great: THE ART OF STAYING TOGETHER, and LOVE GAMES (I got to see a prepublication proof - it won't be in the bookstores till January 2000).

Haven't yet read it, but it was the only book recommended by our marriage counselor specialized in relationship enhancement.