Married to Distraction: How to Restore Intimacy and Strengthen Your Partnership in an Age of InterruptionAre you more distant from your spouse than you’d like to be? Do you or your spouse waste time mindlessly viewing email or surfing the Web? Welcome to the club!Modern marriage is busy, distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing lists of things to do, superficial electronic connections, and interrupted moments. The good news is that there are straightforward and effective ways to restore communication and connection, resurrect happiness and romance, and strengthen—even save—a marriage. • Observe the natural sequence of sustaining love: attention, time, connection, and play. • Develop and nurture empathy—the essential building block to healthy communication. • Carve out small moments of uninterrupted attention for each other. • Identify the pressures that our crazybusy lifestyles put on love and marriage, and fight back with tenderness and appreciation. Complete with scripts, tips, communication techniques, and a detailed 30-day reconnection plan, as well as inspiring real-life stories,Married to Distractionwill set couples on a course of understanding, healing, and love. |
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User Review - anguinea - LibraryThingi listened to the audio version and i really wish the authors would have just went with professional narrators to read because their own voices are very uneven. also, there are several examples of ... Read full review
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User Review - chsbellboy - LibraryThingThis book has some interesting sociological comments on modern culture, but lacks substance and follow through on the 'advice' presented. I would not recommend this book to a couple looking to strengthen their marriage. Read full review
Contents
RESOLVING THE PROBLEMS OF DISTRACTION | 3 |
Eliminate Toxic Worry | 10 |
ix | 56 |
3 | 71 |
10 | 79 |
When Your Spouse Has True | 89 |
22 | 95 |
When Your Spouse Feels Like Your Child | 98 |
PROMOTING PASSIONATE connection 17 Conation An Unfamiliar Key to Empathy | 129 |
Specialize | 135 |
Building Romance | 146 |
The Unexpected Gift | 150 |
Finding Hope | 159 |
What Makes It Worthwhile | 166 |
Ten Reasons Not to Get Divorced Ten Reasons To Get Divorced and Forty Ways to Make Your Marriage Great | 178 |
30 | 183 |
The New World of Affairs | 105 |
Time for | 112 |
Just How Neat Must a Person | 118 |
Managing Anger and Frustration | 121 |
THIRTY Minutes THIRTY DAYS A Workbook for Modern Marriage | 187 |
8 | 200 |
Acknowledgments Notes | 223 |
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Married to Distraction: Restoring Intimacy and Strengthening Your Marriage ... Edward M. Hallowell,Sue Hallowell No preview available - 2011 |
Married to Distraction: How to Restore Intimacy and Strengthen Your ... Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.,Sue Hallowell No preview available - 2011 |
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