In Good Times and Bad: Strengthening Your Relationship When the Going Gets Tough and the Money Gets Tight

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In Good Times and Bad: Strengthening Your Relationship When the Going Gets Tough and the Money Gets Tight Pub. Date: 10/5/2009 Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated

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How to turn bad times into the best times

In this warm, powerful guide, family therapist and bestselling author M. Gary Neuman teams up with his wife, Melisa, to show you how your relationship and family can grow stronger even in the toughest of times. With their practical one-week program, you can improve your relationship immediately, using the strategies happy couples rely on in difficult times. Gary and Melisa draw on their own experiences and other couples' dramatic true stories to offer you prescriptive steps to creating a wonderfully loving atmosphere during any difficult time.

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In good marriages and bad ones, money is never far out of the picture. And in hard times and rocky relationships, it's an especially thorny issue that can't be avoided. Family counselor and relationships expert M. Gary Neuman and his wife, Melisa, use their professional and personal expertise to instruct couples on how to talk -- and how not to talk -- about family finances. In Good Times & Bad encompasses far more than general communication issues about money; it also covers coping with specific situations such as serious illness, job loss, and spending on leisure activities and nonessentials.

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Although this guide could be used to treat all sorts of relationship pitfalls, family counselor M. Gary Neuman (The Truth About Cheating) and his wife, Melisa Neuman, focus on helping couples have civil, constructive conversations about money. Instead of offering investing advice or tips on trimming the family budget, they teach couples how to discuss their finances without accusatory itemizations of credit card bills. Anyone, especially one who has been in a relationship, will likely benefit from at least some of the advice parceled out. Money matters are one of the more mundane and oft-avoided relationship topics, but the Neumans make a strong case that it's vital that couples resolve issues. Given the state of the current economy, their caution is valuable.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780470538036
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/5/2009
Edition number: 1
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 720,314
Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

M. Gary Neuman is a licensed psychotherapist and rabbi and the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Truth about Cheating. He is a frequent guest on Oprah and has made many appearances on Today, Good Morning America, Dateline, The View, The Early Show, Talk of the Nation on NPR, NBC Nightly News, and CBS Evening News Weekend Edition. He and his work have also been featured in People, Time, O: The Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire, Redbook, Parents, Parenting, the Washington Post, Newsweek.com, the Chicago Tribune, and the Miami Herald. He is the creator of the Marriage Turnaround Intensive, an all-day counseling program for couples, and maintains a private practice in Miami Beach, Florida. He is also the author of Emotional Infidelity, Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way, and How to Make a Miracle.

Melisa Neuman has written for newspapers and the international column Dollars and Sense.
Gary and Melisa live in Miami Beach with their five children.

Acknowledgments ix

Part 1 Discover a New Perspective

1 Our Personal Story 3

2 The Decision to Fight for Your Relationship 11

3 The Moment to Save (or Lose) Your Relationship 29

Part 2 Transform Your Relationship

4 What Money Really Means to You and Your Partner 39

5 What You Learned about Money 55

6 Attack the Problem, Not Each Other 79

7 How to Discuss Money in Relationships 95

8 The One-Week Relationship Program That Will Change Your Life 121

Part 3 Bring It Home

9 What You Can Do for Your Children 147

10 Family Fun That Won't Bust the Bank 187

11 Making Holidays Better in Good Times and Bad 203

12 Advice for the Worst of Times 221

Epilogue 249

Index 253

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