Marriage Meetings for Lasting Love (eBook)

Based on the author's successful workshops and years of counseling married couples, this book gives easy-to-follow guidelines for how to set aside time each week to "meet" as a couple. Each meeting includes 4 parts: appreciation; chores; plans for good times; and problems and challenges. The meetings are designed to allow a forum where issues can be discussed and resolved but also the couple can celebrate what they love about each other and plan for future "dates" and make decisions about their families and lives together.

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Most couples — because they watch so many of their peers divorce and are themselves the products of failed marriages — don't have many successful long-term-relationship role models. Parenting and communication issues are perennial, while some challenges, like increasingly 24-7 work lives and economic hardships, mark the current decade. Despite all this, psychotherapist and clinical social worker Marcia Naomi Berger asserts that most couples can make love last — they just need to learn how. Berger answers this need with a deceptively simple prescription: have an interruption-free thirty-minute (or even shorter) meeting each week and follow an agenda that includes the kind of appreciation and planning for fun that foster intimacy and pave the way for collaborative conflict resolution. Berger has refined these techniques while working with hundreds of couples — with results that are both practical and profound.