The Relationship Skills Workbook: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to a Thriving Relationship

What are the ingredients of a successful and enduring relationship? Love, passion, and commitment are all vital-yet without certain basic skills, even the most devoted partners can find themselves descending into arguments, power struggles, and disillusionment. With "The Relationship Skills Workbook, " Dr. Julia B. Colwell presents a practical guide for building a conscious partnership based on communication, cooperation, and trust-offering a much-needed guide for helping couples disarm the explosive conflicts that most commonly break apart relationships. "While relationships often seem mysterious," Dr. Colwell says, "there are a few elegantly simple concepts that can help any couple through the most difficult spots." Here is a friendly and easy-to-use resource of proven tools for getting unstuck from power struggles, ending the blame game, creating win-win agreements, using on-the-spot crisis and conflict first aid, healing and forgiving after clashes, and much more. View Less