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What We Can Learn from the Best Marriages

By Kira M. Newman — 2017

Relationships today are facing challenges that are unique to modern times. A new book offers three strategies to help yours thrive.

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How Can I Get Through to You? Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women

Bestselling author and nationally renowned therapist Terrence Real unearths the causes of communication blocks between men and women in this groundbreaking work.

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Terrence Real
2002
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Married to Distraction: How to Restore Intimacy and Strengthen Your Partnership in an Age of Interruption

Are you more distant from your spouse than you’d like to be? Do you or your spouse waste time mindlessly viewing email or surfing the Web? Welcome to the club! Modern marriage is busy, distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing lists of things to do, superficial electronic...

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Edward M. Hallowell, Sue George Hallowell, Melissa Orlov
2011
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The Asperger Couple’s Workbook: Practical Advice and Activities for Couples and Counsellors

Asperger Syndrome (AS) can affect some of the fundamental ingredients required to make relationships work, such as emotional empathy and communication. This workbook provides couples affected by AS with strategies that will benefit their relationship together, and their family as a whole.

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Maxine Aston
2025
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Alone Together: Making an Asperger Marriage Work

Communication is one of the biggest challenges faced by people with Asperger's Syndrome (AS), yet an Asperger marriage requires communication more than any other relationship.

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Katrin Bentley
2025
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The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say “I Do”

With this simple-yet-profound relationship tool, Susan Piver shows couples at any stage of their relationships—whether they are considering engagement, have been married for decades, or just want to deepen their connection—how they can forge and strengthen lasting, intimate bonds.

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Susan Piver
2025
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The YUMMY Marriage: Tools and Insights from the Acclaimed Marriage Quest Program

A YUMMY marriage is made of two "whole people" who can connect in fun ways, as well as in deep and meaningful ways. They are best friends and playful lovers, too. Did you know: Affairs happen when a couple loses their connection. Sex is the glue in a long-term marriage.

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Cathy W. Helfand
2021
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The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Know to Make Love Work

In his extraordinary new book, Terrence Real, distinguished therapist and bestselling author, presents a long overdue message that women need to hear: You aren’t crazy—you’re right! Women have changed in the last twenty-five years—they have become powerful, independent, self-confident, and happy.

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Terrence Real
2025
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.

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C. S. Lewis
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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C. S. Lewis
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

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C. S. Lewis
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