- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Jossey Bass; New and Revised Edition edition (13 Mar 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0787902802
- ISBN-13: 978-0787902803
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,236,033 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"To learn to fight right, couples can read books like Dr. Markman′s Fighting for Your Marriage, which teach such skills as listening without criticizing or interrupting, setting ground rules for discussion, and scheduling meetings to talk about issues calmly." —Woman′s Day
"For martial therapists like me who give homework assignments to couples, Fighting for Your Marriage is a gift. And for those couples who want to work on their marriage without a therapist, it is a book I highly recommAnd." —Anna Beth Benningfield, president, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
"Fighting for Your Marriage offers the clarity couples need to understand how to change, plus wonderfully constructive and effective techniques for putting it into action." —Andrea Van Steenhouse, psychologist and talk show host, Denver
"Here is a manual, a users guide for one of life′s great adventures. Fighting for Your Marriage marks a turning point in relationship self–help books. It is essential reading for couples who care." —from the foreword by Dean S. Edell, M.D., medical journalist
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Conflict in intimate relationships is as normal and essential as love. How you fight and resolve conflicts determines the difference between a sustained healthy and satisfying marriage or endless pain, frustration, and often divorce. At a time when families are falling apart at alarming rates and with enormous social cost, this book provides a research–based program to prevent relationship breakdown. The new audiotape set provides the key to the communication skills of PREPTM.
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ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL THINGS you can do to protect your marriage is to learn constructive ways to handle conflict, differences, and disagreements. Read the first page
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ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL THINGS you can do to protect your marriage is to learn constructive ways to handle conflict, differences, and disagreements. Read the first page
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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This is a great book and has helped my wife and I come back from the brink. It is old (originlly 1990s I think but this version is 2001) and American but this does not detract from the book at all; the points it raises are timeless and not specific to any national trait! Its main point is that most issues in a marriage can be traced back to bad communication. Although you talk together, you might not be able to hear or understand or even talk effectively or, as with us, all three! This sounds odd because I can talk perfectly well with my friends, but the book explains why this can all go wrong with the most valuable, important and loved person in your life - your partner. Chapter titles like "When what you heard isn't what I said", "Talking Safely without Fighting" and "Playing together: How to succeed in fun" all help explain. The book then presents ways to work round them; simple techniques to help break the vicious circles that can occur. Using these techniques you can start to recover some trust, respect, love, support and all those things you need to then be able to sort things out long term. For Jackie and I this was exactly what we needed. We found the book very readable, not condescending at all, and although it is a tad sugary in places these were very easy to over look. For us, it's been a marriage saver and far better than any counselling services that we have used in the past, I wish we had heard about it years ago. So, if you both are committed to fighting to save the marriage rather than fighting each other to get out of the marriage, then spend the money on the book and not solicitors.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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The authors' presentation of the PREP approach is concise and meaningful for clinicians, therapists, and individuals alike who are seeking a model for conflict resolution and enrichment of ANY intimate relationship. Although written in the context of heterosexual marriage, the same principles obviously apply to homosexual and non-traditional unions. Highly recommended from a doctoral level clinician who has found this model to work in both straight and gay/lesbian relationships.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I have been reading loads of books in connection with a relationship course I am leading, and this book is among the very best. It is clear, honest, realistic, and practical in its recommendations. If you are a person, and you know some other people, this book will help you have better relationships, period.
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