How to Have a World Class Marriage
By Patty Howell and Ralph Jones
Introduction (Continued)
There are many ingredients of a World Class Marriage, some of which are beyond the scope of this booklet, such as how to choose a suitable partner in the first place.
This work is based on the assumption that both partners value the relationship, wish to keep it and wish to make is as satisfying as possible. This work focuses on relationship dynamics and interpersonal communication – complex and largely private realms that profoundly affect relationship satisfaction.
To have a World Class Marriage, partners need some understandings of relationship dynamics that are not generally known. Meaningful insights into the best ways to handle the everyday issues of living together often take humbling years to acquire. And information about the impact of communication on relationships is buried in research literature generally read only by professionals in the fields of Counseling Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, and other helping professions. To bridge these gaps, How to Have a World Class Marriage focuses on the key insights and skills that can enable you to build a deep, caring and growing relationship with your partner, today.
These insights and skills are distilled from the research literature, our years of work teaching communication skills around the world, and hard-won insights from our own relationship. Whether you are still in the honeymoon phase or the honeymoon is already over, these ideas represent the most powerful ways we know to help you move toward having a World Class Marriage.
Patty Howell & Ralph Jones
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