Making Marriage Simple: 10 Truths for Changing the Relationship You Have Into the One You Want

Change the relationship you have into the one you want.Welcome to the Relationship Revolution! Making Marriage Simple is the accessible, essential road map to building a strong marriage in the modern world. Bestselling authors Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt distill into ten essential truths what they've learned about how to create a successful and satisfying relationship—both from their decades of “R&D” in the marriage lab of their workshops, and from their own relationship journey.  In each chapter, Harville and Helen introduce a simple truth—such as “a frustration is a wish in disguise,”  “incompatibility is grounds for marriage,” or “conflict is growth trying to happen”—and then walk couples through easy yet effective exercises to help them apply each truth in real life, every day. Harville and Helen have spent their careers helping couples transform their marriages through research, workshops, and counseling. But marriage—even for marriage experts—is never easy, and a number of years ago they found themselves on the brink of divorce. Harville and Helen put themselves back through the exercises they’d coached so many other couples through, saving their marriage and helping them achieve a true partnership.This book is for all couples.  It offers the practical tools needed to transform one’s relationship into a rewarding and joyous marriage.  Written with humor, compassion, and honesty, and illustrated throughout with engaging line drawings, Making Marriage Simple is a strategic blueprint for creating a stronger, more satisfying partnership in today's world.

Making Marriage Simple: 10 Truths for Changing the Relationship You Have into the One You Want

Self-Help

Hendrix Ph.D., Harville

LaKelly Hunt Ph.D., Helen

Relationships

Piatkus

A companion workbook to the enormously successful New York Times bestselling relationship book, Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples. In 1988, Harville Hendrix in partnership with his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, published a terrifically successful relationship guide, Getting the Love You Want. The book introduced thousands to their Imago Relationship Therapy, a unique healing process for couples, prospective couples, and parents, and developed into an overnight sensation. For their part, Doctors Hendrix and Hunt managed to aid scores of couples in their plight for more loving, supportive, and deeply satisfying relationships. Now, more than a decade later, this companion book picks up where its predecessor left off, delving further into relationship therapy once again, to help transform relationships into lasting sources of love and companionship. The Getting the Love You Want Workbook is designed for the hundreds of thousands of couples who have attended Imago workshops since Getting the Love You Want hit bookstands, as well as new and curious ones seeking a practical route back to intimacy and passionate friendship. The workbook contains a unique twelve-week course (The New Couples' Study Guide) designed to help work through the exercises published in Part III of Getting the Love You Want. Included are complete step-by-step instructions for transforming relationships into a lasting source of love and companionship. For those of us struggling to maintain our most precious relationships, the Getting the Love You Want Workbook helps us grow aware of our individual, unconscious agenda while steering us towards a more harmonious link with our loved ones that will satisfy our deepest needs.

Getting the Love You Want Workbook: The New Couples' Study Guide

Hunt Ph.D., Helen LaKelly

Parenting & Relationships

Atria Books

Featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show! <ul>
<li>Are you reluctant to tell your partner what you really want or need?</li>
<li>When you get what you've asked for...do you still feel dissatisfied?</li>
<li>Is it difficult to accept kind gestures, gifts, or compliments from your partner?</li>
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 Many men and women know how to give love, but many more undermine their relationships by never learning how to receive love. We don't always realize how we reject appreciation and affection, or help and guidance from our romantic partners. But, until we understand the meaning behind our behavior, our relationships stand to suffer. Harville Hendrix Ph.D. and Helen LaKelly Hunt Ph.D. taught couples how to create loving, long-lasting relationships in their New York Times bestsellers, Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find. Yet, they found themselves on the brink of divorce before they learned a powerful lesson that saved their marriage. Now, they bring awareness to one of the most complicated issues facing couples today, receiving love from your partner. In Receiving Love, you will learn how to break the shackles of self-rejection -- which likely began in childhood, when your caretakers unintentionally failed to nurture you -- and embrace real intimacy. Drawing on their renowned expertise, the wide clinical experience of Imago therapists, and their own personal experience as a married couple, Harville and Helen offer detailed, sensitive advice on how to turn a relationship between two well-meaning, yet misunderstood individuals, into a true, everlasting partnership. Learn how to receive the love you've always wanted!

Receiving Love: Transform Your Relationship by Letting Yourself Be Loved (A Guide to Love and Relationships)

An audio companion to the enormously successful New York Times bestselling relationship book, Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples. In 1988, Harville Hendrix in partnership with his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, published a terrifically successful relationship guide, Getting the Love You Want. The book introduced thousands to their Imago Relationship Therapy, a unique healing process for couples, prospective couples, and parents. Doctors Hendrix and Hunt managed to aid scores of couples in their pursuit of more loving, supportive, and deeply satisfying relationships. The Getting the Love You Want Audio Companion, is designed for couples seeking a practical route back to intimacy and passionate friendship. This companion contains a unique twelve-week course which includes complete step-by-step instructions for transforming relationships into a lasting source of love and companionship. For those of us struggling to maintain our most precious relationships, the Getting the Love You Want Audio Companion helps us grow aware of our individual, unconscious agenda while steering us towards a more harmonious link with our loved ones that will satisfy our deepest need.

Getting the Love You Want Audio Companion: The New Couples' Study Guide

Simon & Schuster Audio

Originally published in 1988, Getting the Love You Want has helped millions of couples attain more loving, supportive, and deeply satisfying relationships. The 20th anniversary edition contains extensive revisions to this groundbreaking book, with a new chapter, new exercises, and a foreword detailing Dr. Hendrix’s updated philosophy for eliminating all negativity from couples’ daily interactions, allowing readers of the 2008 edition to benefit from his ongoing discoveries during his last two decades of work. 
Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., in partnership with his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD., originated Imago Relationship Therapy, a unique healing process for couples, prospective couples, and parents. Together they have more than thirty years’ experience as educators and therapists and their work has been translated into more than 50 languages, with Imago practiced by two thousand therapists worldwide. Harville and Helen have six children and live in New York and New Mexico.

Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 20th Anniversary Edition

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Henry Holt Co.

New York Times bestseller with over 4 million copies sold, now fully revised with new insights and lasting wisdom for couples "This soulful and practical handbook helped us build a foundational template for our marriage." ―Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter Alanis Morissette &amp; rapper Souleye "Take in these time-tested practical steps to love and enjoy the freedom and closeness you deserve." ― Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., Mindsight Institute and New York Times bestselling author Getting the Love You Want has helped millions of people experience more satisfying relationships and is recommended every day by professional therapists and happy couples around the world. Dr. Harville Hendrix and Dr. Helen LaKelly Hunt explain how to revive romance and remove negativity from daily interactions, to help you: · Discover why you chose your mate · Resolve the power struggle that prevents greater intimacy · Learn to listen - really listen - to your partner · Increase fun and laughter in your relationship · Begin healing early childhood experiences by stretching into new behaviors · Become passionate friends with your partner · Achieve a common vision of your dream relationship Become the most connected couple you know with this revolutionary guide, combining behavioral science, depth psychology, social learning theory, Gestalt therapy, and interpersonal neuroscience to help you and your partner recapture joy, enhance closeness, and experience the reward of a deeply fulfilling relationship.

Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples: Third Edition

Hunt PhD, Helen LaKelly

St. Martin's: Griffin

Relationships everywhere are in crisis due to our inability to talk about "difference" without polarizing. Since objection to difference is the core human problem, we need a skill that helps us connect beyond difference. That''s just what New York Times bestselling authors Dr. Harville Hendrix and Dr. Helen LaKelly Hunt offer in their new book: How To Talk With Anyone About Anything. They call it the Safe Conversations Dialogue process, which everyone can learn and teach, that moves all relationships from danger to safety, making connecting possible. For centuries, most of us humans have talked to others in monologues, believing that the world is the way we see it, that what we say about it is the "truth" and we have assumed that everyone sees it "our" way. If they do not, we experience tension and conflict on many levels. On the other hand, few of us have ever listened to others while they are talking and tried to see the world from their point of view while retaining our own perspective. Instead of listening to understand and collaborate about our differences, we tend to replace their perspective with our own. This results in polarization, not only in our personal lives and work environments, but also in the political and religious arenas we inhabit. This has led to anxiety, frustration, anger, violence, and war. Clearly, the world needs a new way to talk that transcends difference and leads to collaboration, co-creation, and cooperation. Getting the Love You Want, teach that the practice of Safe Conversations Dialogue impacts the "physics of the Space Between." Here is what they mean: <ul style="list-style-type: disc;"> <li>All of us live in and are a part of an energy field in which everything everywhere is connecting with everything everywhere. This energy field occupies the Space-Between us.</li> <li>When there is safety in the energy field that occupies the Space-Between us, we can connect.</li> <li>When there is anxiety in the Space Between, we defend ourselves. We cannot connect but tend to polarize.</li> <li>Anyone, if they decide to, can restore safety in the Space Between by using a structure conversation skill called the Safe Conversations Dialogue.&nbsp;</li> </ul> &nbsp; In How to Talk with Anyone about Anything, Harville and Helen share the wisdom of the Safe Conversations process and the four structured and teachable skills that create safety and connection: <ul style="list-style-type: disc;"> <li>Dialogue: Dialogue is two or more people taking turns talking and listening. Monologue is one person talking and expecting everyone else to listen. When two or more people shift from Monologue to Dialogue, they can transform any relationship from conflict to safety, connection and collaboration.</li> <li>Zero Negativity: Negativity disrupts safety and is non-negotiable for safe and thriving relationships. When Dialogue is practiced with Zero Negativity, criticism about what one does not have is replaced with a positive request for what one wants. This transforms conflict into safety and connecting.</li> <li>Empathy: Empathy is the capacity to experience or imagine how another person has gone through life. When Dialogue is practiced with empathy, one can more easily accept the different perspective of another person and maintain one''s own perspective without polarizing.</li> <li>Affirmation: Affirmation is valuing another person because they exist rather than for what they have done for you. When Dialogue includes affirmation, the other person experiences themselves as human rather than as an "object" that is valued because of what they do.</li> </ul> &nbsp; How to Talk with Anyone about Anything offers the keys to unlocking your ability to connect with others in a new and profoundly different way. And, as more of us hone that ability, together, we can bring about a fundamental shift in society away from our current focus on the "self" and polarization about difference towards safety and true connection that includes total personal freedom, universal equality, radical inclusion, and celebration of diversity--a society in which we all collaborate with each other without surrendering our differences, co-create with each other about new solutions and cooperate with other to put them into practice. Then we will all live in the world of our dreams.

How to Talk with Anyone about Anything: The Practice of Safe Conversations

LaKelly Hunt, Helen

Thomas Nelson

How to Talk with Anyone about Anything Workbook: A Guide to Practicing Safe Conversations

In Getting the Love You Want, Dr. Harville Hendrix presents the relationship skills that have already helped hundreds of thousands of couples to replace confrontation and criticism with a healing process of mutual growth and support. This extraordinarily practical guide describes the revolutionary technique of Imago Relationship Therapy, which combines a number of disciplines―including the behavioral sciences, depth psychology, cognitive therapy, and Gestalt therapy, among others―to create a program to resolve conflict and renew communication and passion. 
In a new chapter and afterword, we learn the key ways in which Imago Therapy―now practiced by more than two thousand therapists worldwide―can be used to help couples eliminate all negativity from their daily interactions. This fundamental change has proven invaluable in couples' therapy, and the importance of eliminating negativity has been integrated throughout the text, allowing listeners of the 2008 edition to benefit from Dr. Hendrix's ongoing discoveries during his last two decades of work.

Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples: Second Edition

MacMillan Audio

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Making Marriage Simple: 10 Truths for Changing the Relationship You Have into the One You Want

Getting the Love You Want Workbook: The New Couples' Study Guide

Receiving Love: Transform Your Relationship by Letting Yourself Be Loved (A Guide to Love and Relationships)

Getting the Love You Want Audio Companion: The New Couples' Study Guide

Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 20th Anniversary Edition

Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples: Third Edition

How to Talk with Anyone about Anything: The Practice of Safe Conversations

How to Talk with Anyone about Anything Workbook: A Guide to Practicing Safe Conversations

How to Talk with Anyone about Anything: The Practice of Safe Conversations

Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples: Second Edition