Marriage: It's What Brings Us Together

You want your marriage to work well. Maybe you're having problems. Maybe you are just starting out in the relationship and could use some advice as to how to make the relationship work. Maybe things are going pretty well, but you just want a little improvement. Maybe this is a "do-over" and you certainly don't want to make the same mistakes as you did last time. But how best to make the relationship function well? You love your partner, and want things to work out well.

Dr. Stephenson goes through what makes a marriage successful and what doesn't help at all. He talks about how one can be unfaithful in word, deed, and thought--and how this ultimately damages the relationship. He talks about how service is crucially important. He talks about how bartering can often harm the marriage. He talks about intimacy, and how you can make things better. He talks about moral agency and the fact that you cannot control your partner.

Dr. Stephenson has worked with hundreds and hundreds of couples in distress. He did a post-doctoral fellowship in child psychology at Harvard, and he works extensively with the family courts, dealing with both marriage and child issues. In this book he does not pull any punches in talking about how there is going to be some effort involved. This book also is not about some "fake technique" that you simply apply in order to make things better for a brief moment. He stresses the fact that we need to be about fundamental personal change.

A better relationship is just around the corner!