10 LESSONS TO TRANSFORM YOUR MARRIAGE America's Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship

Previously, John Gottman and colleagues learned to predict with 90% accuracy whether a marriage would succeed or fail. In this book, Dr. Gottman and other researchers at the Love Lab develop methods by which marital disasters can be averted. (Important facts about good marriages: spouses treat each other as best friends, maintain a ratio of high positive to low negative comments, and have high expectations of their marriages.) Narrator Susan Denaker has a clear voice and a capable reading style but is a beat slow on some of this material. At times, she also sounds detached, as though reading a public service announcement, which can become an occasional distraction from what is quite useful information. J.C.G. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine [Published: OCT/ NOV 06]