Essential Manners for Couples - Hardcover

Post, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006077665X ISBN 13: 9780060776657

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2005

Synopsis

Essential Manners for Couples Post takes on couples' flashpoints, explaining the little things that make a big difference in relationships and how to head off hostilities before even the most well-intended behavior causes problems. Full description

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Most of us could stand to be reminded once in a while to be nice to each other. --Chicago Sun-Times

Thorough...straightforward....Resolving those hot-button issues...may well prevent a public flame-out. --New York Times

"Thorough...straightforward....Resolving those hot-button issues...may well prevent a public flame-out."--New York Times

"Most of us could stand to be reminded once in a while to be nice to each other."--Chicago Sun-Times

Synopsis:

Who needs relationship gurus to "save" a love relationship when a few well-placed words or actions can magically mend a rift? It's often the little things that spell devotion - or disaster. "Essential Manners for Couples" reveals how to defuse couples' common flashpoints with simple interactions that build rapport. Organized by a couple's private and public life, the book is based on Peter Post's years of fielding thousands of etiquette questions, popular demand from couples he met on tour, and his experience as a husband and father. He explains how to enhance relationships and head off hostilities before our behaviours - even when well intended - get us in trouble. For example: making social plans as a couple, when flirting is just flirting - and when it crosses the line, socializing when you don't much care for his or her friends, tackling chores - what's fair?, the etiquette of sex, and party planning without power struggles.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 006077665X
• ISBN 13: 9780060776657
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224