Take Back Your Marriage: Sticking Together in a World That Pulls Us Apart

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Today's divorce epidemic reflects the rise of many social forces that can pull even the happiest couple apart. In fact, many of us hold deeply ingrained attitudes and assumptions that work against long-term marital happiness. From renowned family therapist Dr. William J. Doherty, this book helps couples pinpoint hidden marital problems and take positive steps to stay close and connected every day. Readers learn to break free of such common traps as confusing desires with needs, applying a trade-in-the-old-model consumer mentality to one's own spouse, or becoming overtime parents instead of full-time partners. They get suggestions for creating relationship rituals that stand the test of time; from mundane to celebratory, sexy to silly. For young couples who want to hold tight to happily-ever-after, or longtime marrieds on the brink of breakup, this book shows how to fight back to restore a marriage worth saving.

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A family therapist identifies overwork, consumerism, and overemphasis on personal fulfillment as major factors that pull couples apart. He shows young and long-term couples how to assess their own marital health, identify social pressures most destructive to them, and take active steps to stay connected. He explains how to break free of assumptions that work against long-term marital happiness, and offers suggestions for creating relationship rituals for closeness and celebration. He also discusses the problem of unintentional sabotage from family and counselors, and tells how choose a marriage counselor. Doherty is professor and director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the University of Minnesota. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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"[A] combination of wisdom and realism...marks this good book."--Foryourmarriage.org

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781572308794
Publisher: Guilford Publications, Inc.
Publication date: 5/15/2003
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 184
Sales rank: 221,897
Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 8.94 (h) x 0.51 (d)

Meet the Author

William J. Doherty, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the University of Minnesota. Past President of the National Council on Family Relations, Dr. Doherty was named one of America's 10 most innovative therapists by the Utne Reader. His numerous books include Take Back Your Kids.

	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Take Back Your Marriage	11
Ch. 2	Resisting Consumer Marriage	26
Ch. 3	Don't Lose Your Marriage to Your Kids	48
Ch. 4	Take Back Time for Your Marriage	61
Ch. 5	Resist Family and Friends Who Would Undermine Your Marriage	73
Ch. 6	Resist Therapists Who Threaten Your Marriage	90
Ch. 7	Preventing Unnecessary Divorce	106
Ch. 8	Intentional Marriage: Connection Rituals in Everyday Life	125
Ch. 9	Intentional Marriage: Love Rituals	137
Ch. 10	Intentional Marriage: Anniversaries and Other Special Occasions	149
Ch. 11	Every Marriage Supported by a Community	159
Ch. 12	Taking Action for Your Marriage	172
	Index	181
	About the Author	184

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Angela2932ND

Posted April 20, 2010

Very Helpful Perspective

Doherty presents a useful perspective that analyzes how our consumerist society exerts pressures that pull people apart in a marriage. Marriage has changed over the decades, and our expectations today are very different than the expectations that couples brought to their marriages in our parents' generation. These days, we're likely to be much more demanding of the ways in which we want our marriages to "measure up," which is often a tall--and unrealistic--approach. Doherty encourages the use of rituals in marriage, to help a couple to maintain connection, even when divorce is no where in the picture. This book is helpful to not only those couples how might be struggling with the decision to divorce, but may have even more value to those couples who want to be protective of this most important of relationships. The title of the book may fail to attract those couples who want to protect their relationship, as well as the couples who are already in trouble.

I also like that this book is more about encouraging an attitude shift, rather than a "communication how-to handbook" that tries to force a couple into some kind of stilted, awkward, only-in-a-therapist's-office communication pattern.

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Anonymous

Posted November 28, 2011

Wow!

Great book, wish I had this knowledge before my divorce but now I am optimistic there is no divorce in my future marriage.
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