Save Your Marriage (as well as your family's emotional and financial stability)

Unlike the "one-size-fits-all" approach used by many relationship counselors and therapists, this Guide fully considers the multi-dimensional nature of relationships. It introduces two important new therapy concepts. First, the Guide helps couples understand and analyze, for themselves, the major "drivers" that dictate whether their relationship will succeed or fail (the "drivers" include: COMMUNICATIONS, SEX, UNCONSCIOUS BEHAVIOR PATTERNS, MONEY ISSUES, SPIRITUALITY, AND LIFESTYLE CHOICES). Second, the Guide teaches couples how to precisely identify the causes of their relationship problems through the use of self-assessment checklists related to each of the drivers. The result, couples seeking to fix their relationship problems can speed-up the process and save many hours of therapy and related costs. Equally important, this new approach gives couples a sense of ownership and "buy-in" to the ultimate plan-of-action to fix their problems. At the same time the authors introduce their new therapy concepts, they also simultaneously embrace and build upon what they consider to be the two most internationally accepted and time-tested couples counseling methodologies: (1) Imago Relationship Therapy, as developed 25 years ago by Dr. Harville Hendrix, and Dr. Helen LaKelly Hunt, and (2) Emotionally Focused Therapy, as advocated by Dr. Sue Johnson. These therapy practices have the highest success rates of all alternative therapy practices that the authors researched. The bottom-line…this Guide enables couples to better understand the causes of their marital discord and the remedial actions that must be taken to save their relationship. And it does so in a structured, focused, and comprehensive manner that can save couples thousands of dollars in unnecessary therapy costs.