Relationships > Communication/Couples
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Date Night Card Deck
Whether you just started dating or are a long-term couple, the Date Night Card Deck can bring your relationship to new heights of passion and romantic intimacy. Written by renowned sex and relationship expert Tammy Nelson, PhD, the conversation starters and activities in this deck are intended to: Create stimulating dialogue, Invite a more romantic connection, Help you discover new ways to grow together, Support you in exploring your boundaries and comfort areas, Move your relationship into new realms of trust and excitement.
$36.95
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Amy Banks, Leigh Ann Hirschman Wired to Connect: The Surprising Link: Between Brain Science and Strong, Healthy Relationships
Research shows that people cannot reach their full potential unless they are in healthy connection with others. The key to more satisfying relationships be it with a significant other, a family member, or a colleague is to strengthen the neural pathways in our brains that encourage closeness and connection. Learn how to rewire your brain for healthier relationships and happier, more fulfilling lives by providing a road map for developing the four distinct neural pathways in the brain that underlie the four most important ingredients for close relationships: calmness, acceptance, emotional resonance, and energy. It includes brain exercises for building better relationships.
$35.95
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Leslie Becker-Phelps The Insecure in Love Workbook: Step-by-Step Guidance to Help You Overcome Anxious Attachment and Feel More Secure with Yourself and Your Partner
A step-by-step workbook to help you move past anxious attachment and feel more confident in your relationships! Has your romantic partner called you clingy, insecure, desperate, or jealous? If they go out with their friends, do you worry that they might be flirting or hooking up with someone else? Do you often worry that they’re going to leave you? If you find yourself constantly on the alert or anxious when it comes to your significant other, you may suffer from anxious attachment—a fear of abandonment that is often rooted in early childhood experiences. So, how can you move past this anxiety before it hurts—or even destroys—your relationship? Based on the self-help hit by Leslie Becker-Phelps, The Insecure in Love Workbook offers engaging activities, tips, and exercises to help you overcome attachment anxiety by developing compassionate self-awareness. You’ll learn to recognize physical sensations, negative thoughts, distressing emotions, and unhealthy behavior patterns that underlie your insecurity; and respond to them in a more nurturing way—rather than beating yourself up. You’ll also discover how insecurity can overwhelm or paralyze you, negatively affecting the relationship between you and your partner. Finally, you’ll develop the skills needed to stop repeating old patterns of self-doubt, neediness, and possessiveness. If you suffer from anxious attachment, you probably know that you need to change, and yet you have remained stuck. But by developing compassionate self-awareness, you can finally free yourself from this cycle of self-sabotage, so you can nurture greater self-acceptance and cultivate secure, healthy, and lasting relationships.
$38.95
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Should I Stay or Should I Go?
A guide to making the ultimate relationship decision from the author of Why Does He Do That? In this supportive and straightforward guide, Lundy Bancroft, the author of Why Does He Do That?, and communication specialist JAC Patrissi offer a way for women to practically take stock of their relationships and move forward-with or without their partners.
$27.99
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Secure Relating
Holding Your Own in an Insecure World Secure Relating offers a refreshing and innovative approach to understanding and improving relationships in today's increasingly polarized world. Drawing on over thirty years of professional clinical experience, authors Ann Kelley, PhD and Sue Marriott, LCSW, CGP integrate modern attachment theory, relational neuroscience, and depth psychology into practical tools for deepening self-awareness and navigating closeness with strength in even the most challenging relationships. Instead of the popular broad attachment categorizations, Secure Relating presents a nuanced understanding of attachment and interpersonal defensive patterns, allowing readers to delve into the complexities of their own experience and apply the specific skills they need.
$36.99
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Wendela Whitcomb Marsh Relating While Autistic: Fixed Signals for Neurodivergent Couples
Nowhere is communication more important than in a marriage or committed relationship. You may be in a neurodiverse relationship, wondering why it seems so hard to communicate with the one you love. Maybe you're not in a relationship yet, and you know you need some solid communication skills in place before you find the right one so you can make it work. This book is for you. Relating while Autistic offers practical tips, evidence-based strategies, and the keys couples need to unlock their best relationship. It's built on the science of human behavior, relationship research, and what the author has learned from her own twenty seven years in love in a brilliant and enduring ND marriage.
$29.95
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Reclaiming Conversation
The Power of Talk in a Digital Age Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground. Based on five years of research and interviews in homes, schools, and the workplace, Turkle argues that we have come to a better understanding of where our technology can and cannot take us and that the time is right to reclaim conversation. The most human and humanizing thing that we do.
$25.99
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Ed Tronick, Claudia M. Gold The Power of Discord: Why the Ups and Downs of Relationships Are the Secret to Building Intimacy, Resilience, and Trust
Dr. Tronick was one of the first researchers to show that babies are profoundly affected by their parents' emotions and behavior via "The Still-Face Experiment." His work, which brought about a foundational shift in our understanding of human development, shows that our highly evolved sense of self makes us separate, yet our survival depends on connection. And so we approximate, iteratively learning about one another's desires and intentions, and gaining confidence in the process as we correct the mistakes and misunderstandings that arise.
$40.50
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Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love And Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships
Recognized as the pioneering book on intimate human relationships, this updated edition explores the ways couples can keep passion alive and even reach the height of sexual and emotional fulfillment later in life.
$24.95
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Rick Hanson Making Great Relationships: Simple Practices for Solving Conflicts, Building Connection, and Fostering Love
New York Times bestselling author of Buddha's Brain and Hardwiring Happiness, Rick Hanson, PhD, brings his trademark warmth and clarity to Making Great Relationships, a comprehensive guide to fostering healthy, effective, and fulfilling relationships of all kinds: at home and at work, with family and friends, and with people who are challenging. As a psychologist, couples and family counselor, husband, and father, Dr. Hanson has learned what makes relationships go badly and what you can do to make them go better. Grounded in brain science and clinical psychology, and informed by contemplative wisdom, Making Great Relationships offers fifty simple yet powerful practices to help you handle conflicts, repair misunderstandings, get treated better, deepen a romantic partnership, be at peace with others, and give the love that you have in your heart. Making Great Relationships will teach you how to relate better than ever with all the people in your life.
$34.99
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Dr. Ronald J. Frederick Loving Like You Mean It: Use the Power of Emotional Mindfulness to Transform Your Relationships
Grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience and attachment theory, this book shares a proven four-step approach to use emotional mindfulness to break free from old habits, befriend your emotional experience, and develop new ways of relating. The capacity for deep, loving connections is inside all of us, waiting to come out. By practicing the science behind loving like you mean it, your relationships can be fuller and richer than you ever imagined.
$27.95
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John M. Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman The Love Prescription: 7 Days to More Intimacy, Connection, and Joy
What makes love last? Why does one couple stay together forever, while another falls apart? And most importantly, is there a scientific formula for love? Drs. John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman are the world's leading relationship scientists. For the past forty years, they have been studying love. They've gathered data on over three thousand couples, looking at everything from their body language to the way they converse to their stress hormone levels. Their goal: to identify the building blocks of love. The Love Prescription distills their life's work into a bite-size, seven-day action plan with easy, immediately actionable steps. There will be no grand gestures and no big, hard conversations. There's nothing to buy or do to prepare. Anyone can do this, from any starting point. The seven-day prescription will lead you through these exercises: Day 1: Make Contact; Day 2: Ask a Big Question; Day 3: Say Thank You; Day 4: Give a Real Compliment; Day 5: Ask for What You Need; Day 6: Reach Out and Touch; Day 7: Declare a Date Night. There is a formula for a good relationship, and this book will show you how a few small changes can fundamentally transform your relationship for the better.
$22.00
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Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Heralded by the New York Times and Time Magazine as the couples therapy with the highest rate of success, Emotionally Focused Therapy works because it views the love relationship as an attachment bond. This idea is supported by science, and has become widely popular among therapists around the world. Dr. Sue Johnson teaches that the way to save and enrich a relationship is to reestablish safe emotional connection and preserve the attachment bond. She focuses on key moments in a relationship-from Recognizing the Demon Dialogue to Revisiting a Rocky Moment-and uses them as touchpoints for seven healing conversations. Through case studies from her practice, illuminating advice, and practical exercises, couples will learn how to nurture their relationships and ensure a lifetime of love.
$37.00
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Suzann Pileggi Pawelski, James O. Pawelski Happy Together: Using the Science of Positive Psychology to Build Love that Lasts
In fairy tales, lasting love just happens. But in real life, healthy habits are what build happiness over the long haul. Happy Together, written by positive psychology experts and husband-and-wife team Suzann Pileggi Pawelski and James O. Pawelski, is the first book on using the principles of positive psychology to create thriving romantic relationships. Combining extensive scientific research and real-life examples, this book will help you find and feed the good in yourself and your partner. You will learn to develop key habits for building and sustaining long-term love.
$24.95
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Brown, Jenny Growing Yourself Up: How to bring your best to all of life's relationships
The message of this book is that you can't separate understanding the individual from understanding relationships. All of life's relationships are integral to increasing self-awareness and maturity. And it's not necessarily the comfortable relationships that promote personal growth. In this edition, the author examines how to help others without fostering dependency, and how to determine what kind of help you or others want from therapists. This is in response to the many lay and professional people who have found this book valuable personally and want to know how to help others grow.
$32.95
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Getting Past The Affair: A Program To Help You Cope, Heal, and Move On - Together or Apart (2nd Edition)
"How could my partner have done this?" "What was my role?" "Can this relationship be saved?" Discovering that your partner has had an affair can feel like an earthquake. Long after the first jolt, the emotional aftershocks can make it hard to be there for your family, go about your daily business, and think clearly about your options. Where can you turn for help? From award-winning couple therapists, this compassionate guide has already provided support and expert advice to tens of thousands of readers. Updated throughout, the second edition confronts the myriad challenges facing couples today. Drawing on the latest research, the authors share vivid stories of diverse partners struggling with infidelity in all its forms--sexual or emotional, in-person or online. Learn how to process what happened, cope with anger and mistrust, and map a way to move forward, whether separately or together.
$27.95
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Susan M. Campbell, John Grey Five-Minute Relationship Repair: Quickly Heal Upsets, Deepen Intimacy, and Use Differences to Strengthen Love
Long-term happiness in love depends on a couple's ability to repair the inevitable rifts and differences, large and small, that occur in any relationship. Neuroscience suggests that relationship upsets are best mended quickly, or they accumulate in long-term memory, increase reactive communication, and become harder to repair successfully. And good repair takes five minutes or less! This book offers practical tools and suggested scripts for resolving problems and having your needs met.
$27.95
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Dr. John Gottman & Julie Gottman Fight Right
How Successful Couples Turn Conflict into Connection Through decades of research, Drs. John and Julie Gottman, founders of the world-famous Love Lab, have identified the five common mistakes we make when we are at odds. In Fight Right, we learn the five secrets that help us to get back on track and harness conflict to build stronger, healthier relationships. With kindness, clarity, and a deep understanding of the struggles couples are going through, the Gottmans show us that we each have a unique conflict culture, borne of how we were raised and how we experienced past relationships, and they take us through all the possible combinations, from Avoiders, to Validators, to Volatiles, and how they can best work together. Fight Right is an essential resource that will help couples escape the win-or-lose mentality in favor of a collaborative approach: calming down, staying connected, and really understanding, so that our fights can bring us closer.
$39.99
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Eve Rodsky Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live)
Fair Play is a time- and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up domestic responsibilities. Rodsky interviewed more than 500 people from all walks of life to figure out what the invisible work in a family actually entails and how to get it all done efficiently. With 4 easy-to-follow rules, 100 household tasks, and a series of conversation starters for you and your partner, Fair Play helps you prioritize what's important to your family and who should take the lead on every chore, from laundry to homework to dinner.
$27.99
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Eight Dates: Essential Conversations
for a Lifetime of Love Strengthen and deepen your love with a fun, ingenious program of life-changing conversations on essential topics. Navigating long-term commitment takes effort-and it just got simpler, with this step-by-step guide to communicating about what matters most. The Gottmans invite couples on eight fun, easy, and profoundly rewarding dates, each one focused on a make-or-break issue: trust, conflict, sex, money, family, adventure, spirituality, and dreams. Interactive activities and prompts provide motivation to stay open, stay curious, and, most of all, stay talking to each other. From the four skills you need for intimate conversation to tips on being honest about your needs, while validating your partner's emotions-will resonate, whether newly together or a longtime couple. You will discover (or rediscover) your partner like never before-and realize your hopes and dreams for the love you desire and deserve.
$35.95
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Dance of Connection
How to Talk to Someone When You're Made, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate Dr. Harriet Lerner teaches us how to restore love and connection with the people who matter the most. In The Dance of Connection we learn what to say (and not say) and when. Filled with compelling personal stories and case examples, Lerner outlines bold new "voice lessons" that show us how to speak with honor and personal integrity, even when the other person behaves badly. Whether we're dealing with a partner, parent, sister, or best friend, The Dance of Connection teaches us how to navigate our most important relationships with clarity, courage, and joyous conviction.
$21.99
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Couple Skills Workbook
Manage Conflict, Increase Trust and Intimacy, and Build a Better Relationship Written by a psychologist and based on the most effective couples therapies, The Couple Skills Workbook will show you how to boost your "relationship IQ" by cultivating greater self-awareness, as well as an increased awareness of your partner's needs. With this how-to guide, you'll learn how to better navigate conflict, reconnect after fights, nurture intimacy, and build a solid foundation for a secure and loving relationship.
$38.95
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Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning, Kim Paleg Couple Skills: Making Your Relationship Work (2nd Edition)
Love takes work, but, when it comes to relationships, it pays to work smarter. Couple Skills, Second Edition, revised and updated from the therapist-recommended classic, will show you how to work smarter in your relationship. You'll learn to improve communication, cope better with problems, and resolve conflicts with the one you love in healthy and creative ways. Each chapter teaches you an essential skill that supports greater relationship satisfaction and deeper intimacy.
$37.95
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James Nee Hundley Attachment Theory Journal
Powerful Tools to Promote Understanding, Increase Stability, and Build Lasting Relationships Understand your attachment style and build better relationships. Attachment theory explores the different ways we develop bonds with others. Filled with prompts and practices grounded in attachment theory, this guided journal empowers you to understand yourself better and improve intimacy, honesty, and communication with everyone in your life. How do you experience attachment?-Explore the anxious, avoidant, and secure attachment styles, and determine which feel true to you. Discover tools for growth-Cultivate more genuine connections with exercises like practicing mindfulness, tolerating disappointment, and tracking your emotional responses to different situations. Find additional support-Complete this journal on its own or alongside The Attachment Theory Workbook for extra guidance. Lay the foundation for strong and lasting relationships with The Attachment Theory Journal.
$20.99
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