FIGHTING FOR YOUR MARRIAGE

The two essentials of a lasting marriage, according to these articulate Ph.D.'s, are preventing problems and enhancing satisfaction. Moving beyond the obvious, they spell out the four main challenges of marriage--being safe at home, keeping the doors to intimacy open, doing one's part and being responsible, and nurturing security and your future together. These principles and the examples offered are among the most cogent and powerful on audio, especially in the voice of narrator C.M. Herbert, who provides a silky intellectual quality. When couples correct the four danger patterns--escalation, invalidation, negative interpretations, and withdrawal/avoidance--they can attain enough security and peace to focus on what's positive and build on it. T.W. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine [Published: JUN/ JUL 06]