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Keeping Marriages Healthy, and Why It’s So Difficult

After two people stand before everyone important to them in the world and publicly declare that they love each other and intend to remain together for the rest of their lives, everything social psychology has learned about the stability of publicly declared opinions suggests that these will be the most stable opinions of all (Festinger, 1957). Yet of course they aren’t.

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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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Marry Him: The Case For Settling for Mr. Good Enough

An eye-opening, funny, painful, and always truthful in-depth examination of modern relationships and a wake-up call for single women about getting real about Mr. Right. You have a fulfilling job, great friends, and the perfect apartment. So what if you haven’t found “The One” just yet.

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Lori Gottlieb
2011
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Loving in the Grown Zone: A No-Nonsense Guide to Making Healthy Decisions in the Quest for Loving, Romantic Relationships of Honor, Esteem, and Respect

Too many people have surrendered to the belief that dissatisfaction, neglect, infidelity, abuse, disrespect, conflict, exploitation and betrayal are natural, normal, and unavoidable characteristics of romantic relationships and even marriage.

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Zara D. Green, Alfred A. Edmond Jr.
2014
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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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Creating Love: The Next Great Stage of Growth

John Bradshaw’s bestselling books and compelling PBS series have touched and changed millions of lives.

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John Bradshaw
1994
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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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Foolproof Advice on How to Have a Great Marriage

Marriage isn’t easy. Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something. But it can be fun. And fulfilling. And, more than anything, it can be a strong foundation on which you construct a meaningful and rewarding life.

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Helen LaKelly Hunt
2015
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Can One Person Save a Marriage? Absolutely.

Oftentimes one person in a relationship is more interested in improving a relationship than the other. Is it possible for one partner to save a relationship on his or her own? Harville Hendrix and our panel of experts discuss.

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Helen LaKelly Hunt
2015
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Not “Just Friends”: Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity

You’re right to be cautious when you hear these words, “I’m telling you, we’re just friends.” Good people in good marriages are having affairs. The workplace and the Internet have become fertile breeding grounds for “friendships” that can slowly and insidiously turn into love affairs.

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Shirley P. Glass, Jean Coppock Staeheli
2004
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The Person You Really Need to Marry | Tracy McMillan | TEDxOlympicBlvdWomen

Tracy McMillan is a television writer (Mad Men, United States of Tara) and relationship author who wrote the book Why You're Not Married.Yet, based on her viral 2011 Huffington Post blog. She also appeared as a dating coach on the NBC reality show Ready For Love.

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2014
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