How You and Your Mate Can Become a Super Couple

How You And Your Partner Can Become A Super Couple: Vol. 1 Functioning. Is A Self-Help Book For Couples And Marriages. It Covers Five Areas Of Couple/Marriage Interpersonal Interactions: (1) Communication (2) Negotiation And Expressing (3) Anger (4) Sexual And (5) Loving Feelings. There Is Didactic Material On Each Of The Five Topics And Then There Are Experiential Activities Or Exercises For Couples To Do In Order To Improve Their Relationship. The Introduction Describes The Blame Game Which Is An Obstacle To Improving Couple Relationships. On The Other Hand If Couples Can Stop Blaming Each Other And Get To Work On Their Relationship They May Improve It In These Areas. This Book Has Step-By-Step Instructions For Doing Activities In The Five Areas. There Are Specific Instructions For Doing About Ten Activities Or Exercises In Each Of The Five Areas. They Are Derived From My Doing These Activities With Couples In My Practice Of Couple/Marriage Therapy In The Past Fifty Years. The Instructions Have Been Tested And Refined In My Couple Workshops And In My Practice Of Couple/Marriage Therapy. What I Learned For The Most Part Was What These Couples Taught Me. Of Course I Read Books Took Workshops And Had Supervision Of My Work. The Interplay Of Being In A Couple Relationship Going To My Own Personal Couple Therapy Doing Couple Therapy With Other Couples And Then Thinking And Reading About Couple Relationships And Couple Therapy Helped Me Refine My Own Understanding Of Couples--Impressing Me With What Worked To Deepen The Intimacy Of Couples And What Did Not Work. This Book Is An End Result. My Formulations Of Guidelines For Couples Were Further Tested And Refined When I Trained Graduate Students For Thirty Years In The Marriage And Family Therapy Training Program Of The Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute (Institute Of Religion And Health) In New York Ny.