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Five-Ring Fever: When Olympic Parents Push Their Kids Too Hard

By Susan Donaldson James — 2012

Silver Medalist and mother Judi Brown Clarke warns about overzealous parenting.

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The Mathematics of Marriage: Predicting Divorce (John Gottman)

University of Washington professor of psychology Dr. John Gottman can tell if a marriage is doomed. After 14 years of studying 650 couples with the aid of videotape and sensors, Gottman needs only a half hour with a couple to predict with 90 percent accuracy whether they will stay married.

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John Gottman
2014
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The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You

Do you fall in love hard, but fear intimacy? Are you sick of being told that you are “too sensitive”? Do you struggle to respect a less-sensitive partner? Or have you given up on love, afraid of being too sensitive or shy to endure its wounds? Statistics show that 50 percent of what determines...

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Elaine N. Aron
2001
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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

"Wise and compassionate" (New York Times Book Review), and rich with humor and insight—and absolute honesty—this book is a balm for everything life throws our way.

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Cheryl Strayed
2025
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Mom’s House, Dad’s House: Making Two Homes for Your Child

Internationally renowned therapist, family expert and mediator Isolina Ricci, Ph.D. presents this definitive and newly updated guide to divorce and making shared custody work for parents and children.

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Isolina Ricci
1997
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.

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Lori Gottlieb
2019
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The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You’re Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate

The key problem in relationships, particularly over time, is that people begin to lose their voice.

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Harriet Lerner
2002
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