Why Marriages Succeed Or Fail: What You Can Learn from the Breakthrough Research to Make Your Marriage LastBased on his scientific investigation into the dynamics of marriage, Gottman has devised a series of self-tests that can help married couples evaluate the health of their own marriages and pinpoint imbalances that are the leading indicators of divorce. |
Contents
Preface | 11 |
The Good The Bad | 32 |
FOUR Your Private Thoughts Become Cast in Stone | 103 |
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Relationship Sabotage: Unconscious Factors that Destroy Couples, Marriages ... William J. Matta No preview available - 2006 |