Stop stepping on her toes and learn how to dance. Have you been spending a lot of time stepping on your wife's toes? Maybe it's time you put yourself in her shoes. Trading Places: The Best Move You'll Ever Make in Your Marriage is part of the key to winning much, much more from your relationship with your wife---more understanding, more laughter, and yes, more loving. Using this workbook as you read Trading Places will help make sure you get it right. Bestselling authors Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott wrote this workbook to help you make the most of the little-known secrets of putting the time-tested strategy of trading places to work in your marriage. Packed with practical helps and tips you've never thought of, you'll learn the simple, three-step-strategy to trading places and, as a result, you're sure to: * Increase your levels of passion * Bolster your commitment * Eliminate nagging * Short-circuit conflict * Double your laughter * Forgive more quickly * Talk more intimately Use the workbook to drill down through the three crucial steps to trading places---you'll find self-tests, journals, even exercises to do together with your wife. Specific suggestions for practicing empathy make learning easier---and it's all tied to the book. When you're done you'll be prepared to experience 'the intimate dance of trading places'. And you'll have learned a skill that will make your marriage more rewarding---and more exciting---than you ever thought possible.
Les and Leslie. A husband-and-wife team who not only share the same name, but the same passion for helping others build healthy relationships. In 1991, the Parrotts founded the Center for Relationship Development on the campus of Seattle Pacific University - a groundbreaking program dedicated to teaching the basics of good relationships.
Married in 1984, the Parrotts bring real-life examples to their speaking platform. Their professional training - Leslie as a marriage and family therapist, and Les as a clinical psychologist - ensures a presentation that is grounded, insightful and cutting-edge.
The Parrotts are New York Times #1 Best Selling Authors. Their books include the award-winning Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts, Love Talk, Real Relationships, The Parent You Want to Be, and Crazy Good Sex.
Each year Les and Leslie speak in over 40 cities. Their audiences include a wide array of venues, from churches to Fortune 500 company board rooms. Their books have sold over two million copies in more than two dozen languages.
The Parrotts have been guests on many national TV and radio programs such as CNN, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, The View with Barbara Walters, NBC Nightly News, and Oprah. Their work has been featured in USA Today and The New York Times.
Visit their website for lots of free resources at www.LesandLeslie.com
