After the Honeymoon: How Conflict Can Improve Your Relationship-Revised Edition - Softcover

Wile, Daniel B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979563909 ISBN 13: 9780979563904

Publisher: Collaborative Couple Therapy Books, 2008

Synopsis

After the honeymoon. The very words carry a burden of sadness, as if for a short while we lived in a golden trance of love, and now we’ve been jolted awake. Immediately comes the thought, “Oh no! Is this the person I’m supposed to spend the rest of my life with?” When choosing a partner, we are choosing, along with that person, a particular set of problems that we will be grappling with for the next ten, twenty, or even fifty years. Dan Wile shows how to take advantage of the inevitable problems that occur in a relationship to deepen the sense of connection. Most of these problems result from feelings we are unable to express and conversations we are unable to have. We become angry because we are unable to confide feeling hurt. We become defensive because we are unable to confide feeling threatened. We become uncompromising because of the hidden compromises we are already making. Exposing these undercurrents can turn fights into intimate conversations.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collaborative Couple Therapy Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0979563909
• ISBN 13: 9780979563904
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312