Couple Skills: Making Your Relationship Work Kim Paleg, Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

With warmth and wisdom, Bernstein offers a simple yet powerful approach for . In Why Can't You Read My Mind?, psychologist Jeffrey Bernstein reveals-for the first time-the nine toxic thought patterns at work in virtually every relationship, and shows couples how these distorted, negative, exaggerated thoughts can poison their love and end their union. Couple Skills: Making Your Relationship Work. Review - Couple Skills Making Your Relationship Work by Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning, and Kim Paleg New Harbinger, 2006. In fact, I have used the Gottman exerercise called Discovering Your Partners Love Map with couples who were arguing a moment before, and watched them move from confrontation to fond memory. Jan 29th 2008 (Volume 12, Issue 5). Can all be learned and practiced, and some are a little chagrined that we actually have to give up the Prince Charming/Cinderella model for relationships. Those clients are often amazed that relationship skills, listening skills, intimacy skills, Heartmath, ect. But it may also be a way to escape growing up, facing some bitter truths about life, love, and yourself, and assuming the terrible burden of responsibility for making your relationship work. Love takes work, but, when it comes to relationships, it pays to work smarter. As a clinical psychologist who has been treating distressed couples for twenty-one years, I answer yes--provided that each of you is willing to look honestly at yourself and at your partner, and acquire the skills you need to see yourself through this shattering crisis. Couple Skills, Second Edition, revised and updated from the therapist-recommended classic, will show you how to work smarter in your relationship.