Why marriages succeed or fail and how you can make yours last
(1995, original release: 1994)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
306.81/GOTTMAN,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995
©1994
©1994
DESCRIPTION
234 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780684802411, 0684802414 :, 0671867482, 9780671867485, 0684802414, 9780684802411
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
What makes marriage work? -- Marriage styles: the good, the bad, and the volatile -- Four horsemen of the apocalypse: warning signs -- Your private thoughts become cast in stone -- Two marriages: his and hers -- Your marriage: the diagnosis -- Four keys to improving your marriage -- Strengthening the foundations
Counters conventional wisdom about marriage and divorce, providing curative techniques and describing how marital satisfaction is not the key to marital stability and arguing can be a healthy sign