Why Marriages Succeed Or Fail: And how You Can Make Yours Last
- ISBN-10
- 0747537739
- ISBN-13
- 9780747537731
- Category
- Communication in marriage
- Pages
- 234
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Authors
- John Gottman, Nan Silver
Description
The author examines how criticism, contempt, defensiveness and stonewalling, can destroy relationships and shows how successful and happy relationships depend not so much on problem solving, but on building an emotional bank of well being that can be drawn upon in times of trouble.
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- 2012-12-11
- 240 pages
- Ebook
- Simon and Schuster
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- 1995-06-01
- 240 pages
- Paperback
- Simon & Schuster
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