The Best-Selling Marriage Enhancement and Divorce Prevention Book
These study guides will be written and uploaded regularly and will accompany the book titled Fighting for Your Marriage. Authored by Marriage Researchers – Howard J. Markman, Scott M. Stanley, and Susan L. Blumberg.
Published by Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2001 (3rd revised edition in 2010).
These study guides for FfYM are being written, uploaded and continually revised if necessary and are intended to be used with the study of the book which is available in pdf form at https://www.quia.com/files/quia/users/ssgbroward/Fight4Marriage
or from Dropbox at https://www.dropbox.com/preview/Fight4Marriage.pdf?role=personal
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Part One: Understanding the Risks on the Road to Lasting Love
Chapter 1: Five Keys for a Great Relationship: PREP in a Nutshell
Chapter 2: Destructive Patterns: Signs of Danger Ahead
Chapter 3: Changing Roles, Changing Rules: Men and Women in Conflict
Part Two: Teaming Up to Handle Conflict
Chapter 4: When What You Heard Isn’t What I Said: Understanding Filters in Communication
NOTE: Chapters 1 – 4 will be condensed and chapters 5 – 17 will be written and uploaded soon.
TBD Chapter 5: Talking Safely Without Fighting: The Speaker Listener Technique
TBD Chapter 6: Controlling the Home Fires: Handling Issues and Events Well
TBD Chapter 7: New Perspectives on Problems and Problem Solving
TBD Chapter 8: Keeping Conflict Under Control: Ground Rules for a Great Relationship
Part Three: Enjoying Each Other
TBD Chapter 9: Safe Harbor: Preserving and Protecting Friendship
TBD Chapter 10: Being There: Supporting One Another in Life
TBD Chapter 11: Playing Together: How to Succeed in Fun Without Really Trying
TBD – Chapter 12: Sense and Sensuality: Enhancing and Protecting Your Sex Life
TBD – Chapter 13: Sacred Places: Core Beliefs and Spiritual Intimacy
Part Four: Staying the Course
TBD – Chapter 14: Why You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Unraveling the Mysteries of Expectations
TBD – Chapter 15: Forgiveness: Restoring Hope
TBD – Chapter 16: Sticking, Stuck, or Stopped: On the Path to Commitment
TBD – Chapter 17: Moving Forward