Seven Secrets of a Happy Marriage - Tapa blanda

Profiling real-life case studies of marriages in crisis and each couple's efforts to find happiness, the stories are riveting and the advice, from professional marriage therapists, is keenly insightful, revealing the central truths of successful relationships. Using the column's most memorable cases to illuminate the essential steps to creating a marriage that works: Build Trust, Communicate, Fight Fair, Defuse Power Struggles, Balance the Bottom Line, Keep Intimacy Alive, and Be Partners. Central to the book is the column's enormously appealing "he says, she says, counsellor says" format; the constructive, universally relevant counsel; and of course the fascinating and intimate access inside other people's lives - such as one couple whose marriage was salvaged from the ruins of the World Trade Center.

Every marriage has problems. The pressures are real and never let up: money, children, fidelity, the endless little decisions. So when one shares their troubles, every other couple can relate—and learn.

Riveting in their "she said, he said" format and filled with intimate detail, the dozens of real-life stories in Seven Secrets of a Happy Marriage draw readers behind the closed doors of other people's lives and into the therapist's office, where conflicts are laid bare and solutions tendered.

And as the editors of the Ladies' Home Journal column "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" have learned in five decades of publication, these profiles of marriages in crisis reveal the seven underlying truths of successful relationships: trust, communication, fair fights, a balance of power, an understanding about money, good sex, and the willingness to make your partner your priority.

An interactive workbook section with quizzes, self-appraisals, and exercises helps readers and their spouses recognize and resolve their own trouble spots.