Marcia Naomi Berger

Marriage Meetings for Lasting Love (eBook, ePUB)

30 Minutes a Week to the Relationship You've Always Wanted

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New World Library
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781608682249
• Artikelnr.: 40319463

Autorenporträt

Marcia Naomi Berger, MSW, LCSW, leads dynamic marriage and communication workshops and is a popular speaker at conferences. In addition to working as a clinical social worker with a private psychotherapy practice in San Rafael, California, she teaches continuing education classes for psychotherapists and counselors at the UC Berkeley Extension and Alliant International University in San Francisco. While employed by the City and County of San Francisco, she held senior level positions in the fields of child welfare, alcoholism treatment, and psychiatry. She also served as a lecturer on the clinical faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, and as executive director of Jewish Family and Children's Services of the East Bay. Marcia Naomi Berger lives in Marin County, California, with her husband, David Berger. She gives their weekly marriage meetings major credit for their happiness together and for her passion to share this tool with couples everywhere. Visit her on the Web at www.marriagemeetings.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword by Linda Bloom
Introduction
Part I: Preparing for Your Marriage Meetings
Chapter 1: Marriage Meeting Basics: Overview and Techniques
Chapter 2: Debunking Marriage Myths
Part II: Conducting the Four Parts of a Marriage Meeting
Chapter 3: Expressing Appreciation
Chapter 4: Coordinating Chores
Chapter 5: Planning for Good Times
Chapter 6: Addressing Problems and Challenges
Part III: Communication Skills for Effective Meetings
Chapter 7: I-Statements
Chapter 8: Self-Talk
Chapter 9: More Communication Techniques for Marriage Meetings
Part IV: Transforming Relationships with Marriage Meetings
Chapter 10: Opposites Attract, and Then What?: Ken and Lauren
Chapter 11: Resolving an In-law Issue: Ned and Amy
Chapter 12: Handling a Money Conflict: Sally and Michael
Chapter 13: Couple Progresses from Verbal Abuse to Healthier Relating:
Wendy and Zack
Chapter 14: Marriage Meeting Techniques Support Couple Therapy: Oliver and
Robin
Conclusion
Appendix A. The Marriage Meeting Agenda: A Quick-Reference Guide
Appendix B: The Feelings and Needs Inventory
Acknowledgments
Endnotes
Reading List
Index
About the Author