Love doesn’t just happen— and it works on a far grander scale than eyes meeting across a crowded room.
Happy Together is a Winner of the 2012 Nautilus Silver Book Award, the Silver Benjamin Franklin Award,and the Award-Winner of the USA Best Book Awards in Self-Help Relationships!!
No matter how much passion there is at the beginning of a relationship, for love to last it must be actively created. For thirty years, Dr. Bill Cloke, an innovative and successful couples’ therapist, has been helping couples create lasting connection, commitment, and intimacy by learning the essential relationship skills he now reveals in Happy Together.
With sensitivity and practicality, Happy Together pinpoints the issues and actions that can make or break our relationships. Step by step, it will show you:
- How to identify and overcome personal barriers to meaningful and satisfying connections
- The defensive ways we unknowingly kill love and how to learn from conflict to create deeper intimacy
- The role of passion and sexuality in our relationships
- How to understand and deal with issues of shame and rage that can impact our ability to love
- Why deeply held myths about family, marriage, and idealized romance can create expectations that damage our connection with each other
- How to become partners in problem-solving
- How to effectively use the tools of compassionate communication and “constructive complaining”
Rich with practical tips and techniques, including sample dialogues to help you make meaningful changes, Happy Together will guide you in perfecting the skills you need to create a positive vision for your relationship and a roadmap for happiness.
Published by Pacific Highlands Press
Available to booksellers through SCB Distributors and all major wholesalers.
240 pp $14.95
5.5 X 8.5 in.
ISBN: 978-0-9829324-1-4
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