Love More, Fight Less: Communication Skills Every Couple Needs: A Relationship Workbook for Couples
Learn to communicate effectively, meaningfully, and lovingly with your partner—even in tense situations.

Conflict is part of every relationship, even the healthiest ones. The key to a long-lasting relationship isn't avoiding fights, but rather seeing them as opportunities to work together. In her book, Gottman-certified relationship coach Dr. Gina Senarighi gives us the tools and strategies we need to communicate effectively, rebuild trust, and repair past hurts.

Love More, Fight Less features:
  • 30 COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND ACTIVITIES for building self-awareness, identifying and interrupting emotional reactivity, eliminating judgment, separating thoughts from feelings, and more
  • 29 COMMON PITFALLS IN RELATIONSHIPS around issues of intimacy, career, finances, family and home matters, and friendships with other people—and how to navigate them
  • STEP-BY-STEP GUIDANCE AND EXPERT INSIGHT to help you transform your relationship's conflict patterns by integrating effective communication skills

  • This relationship workbook is for couples who want to learn new skills and build a solid foundation for working through conflicts and moving forward in ways that strengthen their bonds.
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    Love More, Fight Less: Communication Skills Every Couple Needs: A Relationship Workbook for Couples
    Learn to communicate effectively, meaningfully, and lovingly with your partner—even in tense situations.

    Conflict is part of every relationship, even the healthiest ones. The key to a long-lasting relationship isn't avoiding fights, but rather seeing them as opportunities to work together. In her book, Gottman-certified relationship coach Dr. Gina Senarighi gives us the tools and strategies we need to communicate effectively, rebuild trust, and repair past hurts.

    Love More, Fight Less features:
  • 30 COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND ACTIVITIES for building self-awareness, identifying and interrupting emotional reactivity, eliminating judgment, separating thoughts from feelings, and more
  • 29 COMMON PITFALLS IN RELATIONSHIPS around issues of intimacy, career, finances, family and home matters, and friendships with other people—and how to navigate them
  • STEP-BY-STEP GUIDANCE AND EXPERT INSIGHT to help you transform your relationship's conflict patterns by integrating effective communication skills

  • This relationship workbook is for couples who want to learn new skills and build a solid foundation for working through conflicts and moving forward in ways that strengthen their bonds.
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    Love More, Fight Less: Communication Skills Every Couple Needs: A Relationship Workbook for Couples

    Love More, Fight Less: Communication Skills Every Couple Needs: A Relationship Workbook for Couples

    by Gina Senarighi PhD, CPC
    Love More, Fight Less: Communication Skills Every Couple Needs: A Relationship Workbook for Couples

    Love More, Fight Less: Communication Skills Every Couple Needs: A Relationship Workbook for Couples

    by Gina Senarighi PhD, CPC

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    Overview

    Learn to communicate effectively, meaningfully, and lovingly with your partner—even in tense situations.

    Conflict is part of every relationship, even the healthiest ones. The key to a long-lasting relationship isn't avoiding fights, but rather seeing them as opportunities to work together. In her book, Gottman-certified relationship coach Dr. Gina Senarighi gives us the tools and strategies we need to communicate effectively, rebuild trust, and repair past hurts.

    Love More, Fight Less features:
  • 30 COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND ACTIVITIES for building self-awareness, identifying and interrupting emotional reactivity, eliminating judgment, separating thoughts from feelings, and more
  • 29 COMMON PITFALLS IN RELATIONSHIPS around issues of intimacy, career, finances, family and home matters, and friendships with other people—and how to navigate them
  • STEP-BY-STEP GUIDANCE AND EXPERT INSIGHT to help you transform your relationship's conflict patterns by integrating effective communication skills

  • This relationship workbook is for couples who want to learn new skills and build a solid foundation for working through conflicts and moving forward in ways that strengthen their bonds.

    Product Details

    ISBN-13: 9780593196656
    Publisher: Zeitgeist
    Publication date: 07/28/2020
    Pages: 256
    Sales rank: 96,532
    Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

    About the Author

    Gina Senarighi, PhD, CPC is an author, teacher, sexuality counselor and certified relationship coach. She's been supporting clean fights and dirty sex in happy, healthy relationships as an educator, coach, consultant and couples therapist for over ten years.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction 1

    Part 1 Effective Communication Skills 10

    1 Self-awareness 12

    Skill #1 Building Awareness of Your Defaults 13

    Skill #2 Identifying Reactivity 20

    Skill #3 Learning to Interrupt Reactivity 24

    Skill #4 Stopping Distorted Thinking 30

    Skill #5 Managing Tough Emotions with Discernment 37

    2 Talking 43

    Skill #6 Creating a Secure Space for Vulnerability 37

    Skill #7 Moving from Judgment to Curiosity 49

    Skill #8 Practicing Gratitude to Deepen Emotional Intimacy 53

    Skill #9 Recognizing Unresolvable Conflicts 58

    Skill #10 Giving the Benefit of the Doubt 62

    3 Listening 65

    Skill #11 Establishing Emotional Consent 66

    Skill #12 Building Emotional Literacy 71

    Skill #13 Developing Empathetic Communication Skills 73

    Skill #14 Separating Thoughts from Feelings 77

    Skill #15 Following Up 80

    4 Accountability & repair 82

    Skill #16 Shifting from Blame to Personal Accountability 83

    Skill #17 Understanding Your Conflict Dance 87

    Skill #18 Circling Back to Repair Misunderstanding 92

    Skill #19 Making an Apology that Counts 94

    Skill #20 Building Trust by Following Through 99

    5 Trust & intimacy 103

    Skill #21 Building Safety for Intimacy 104

    Skill #22 Cultivating Physical Intimacy 107

    Skill #23 Emotional, Spiritual, & Intellectual Intimacy 111

    Skill #24 Nourishing Functional or Familial Intimacy 114

    Skill #25 Identifying Intimacy Needs in Relationships 117

    6 Healthy boundaries 120

    Skill #26 Recognizing When Boundaries Need Work 121

    Skill #27 Differentiating Among Wants, Needs, & Requirements 123

    Skill #28 Asking for What You Need 126

    Skill #29 Moving Toward, Away, & Against 128

    Skill #30 Using a Mindful Approach to Conflict 131

    Part 2 Relationship Issues 134

    7 Intimacy 135

    Issue #1 Diminished Desire 137

    Issue #2 No Sex 140

    Issue #3 Sharing New Sexual Fantasies 143

    Issue #4 Desire Fatigue 146

    Issue #5 Bad Sex 149

    8 Career 151

    Issue #6 Personal Purpose Clarity 152

    Issue #7 Career & Legacy 155

    Issue #8 Professional Purpose 157

    Issue #9 Visioning & Long-Range Plans 161

    Issue #10 Transparency, Honesty, & Trust 164

    Issue #11 Changing Plans 167

    9 Finances 170

    Issue #12 Financial Upbringing 171

    Issue #13 Decision-Making & Power with Money 174

    Issue #14 Household Contribution 177

    10 Family 180

    Issue #15 In-Laws & Family Norms 181

    Issue #16 Boundaries with Family 184

    Issue #17 Information Sharing & Privacy 187

    Issue #18 Differing Social Needs 190

    Issue #19 Reaffirming the Couple Bubble 193

    11 Home 196

    Issue #20 Default Responsibilities 197

    Issue #21 Never Checking In or Updating Processes 200

    Issue #22 No Accountability or Follow-Through 203

    Issue #23 Request Expectation Management 206

    Issue #24 Building Resentments 209

    12 Friendships & other people 212

    Issue #25 No Autonomy 213

    Issue #26 Isolation 216

    Issue #27 Jealousy 219

    Issue #28 Insecurity 222

    Issue #29 Infidelity 225

    Conclusion 231

    Appendix 232

    References 235

    Index 236

    Acknowledgments 245

    About the Author 246

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