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How do you make your romantic relationship thrive? You cannot rely on feelings alone but must actively think about how to enhance the relationship. Drs. Locke and Kenner cover: the visibility principle, understanding your partner, encouraging your partner to pursue values, making your partner feel loved, joint decision-making and more.
     Sexual intimacy presupposes emotional intimacy. They explore: creating the mood for sex, communication openly about what you want, prioritizing sex, avoiding subverters of sexual pleasure and much more.
[Audio; 8-CD set, 5 hours, 54 minutes, with Q&A]

Finding a romantic partner can be one of the most delightful activities in life. Why does it often end up being a drag or a dreadful disappointment? How can you, your children, or your friends act to help make dreams of an ideal romantic partner a reality? What knowledge will make dating an adventure? How do you ask the hard-hitting questions (e.g., "Do you have any social diseases? for instance, altruism")? How do you discover a potential partner's virtues?
[Audio; 5-tape or 5-CD set, 6 hrs.]

"Romantic," as defined by one dictionary, means marked by the imaginative or emotional appeal of the heroic, adventurous, remote mysterious or idealized. What makes a romantic relationship a success? What are surefire ways to undermine any success?
   This course explores principles to cultivate growing tenderness, mutual respect, understanding and some delightful playfulness in your romantic relationship. Learn how to avoid typical pitfalls of: the altruism trap; the mind-reading trap; the love-test trap; the mismatched-hierarchy trap.
   Learn some helpful skills and standing orders regarding romantic relationships.
[Audio; 6-tape or 6-CD set, 5 hrs., with Q&A]
[Also Internet Course; RealAudio]

In this course Dr. Kenner offers advice on how to prepare the groundwork for successful long-term relationships, rescue slightly damaged ones or strengthen good partnerships. Drawing upon her experience as a clinical psychologist, she explains and illustrates how to be a careful listener, how to prevent misunderstandings and deal effectively with negative emotions. The course also includes discussions on mutually growing-not stagnating-as individuals, enjoying shared interests, rationally compromising, and dealing with kids and in-laws. Using exercises, role-plays, cognitive therapy interventions and a foundation of Objectivism, Dr. Kenner explores principles and skills to help you keep the spark alive.
[Audio; 5-tape or 5-CD set, 5 hrs., with Q&A]

How do you treat someone you really love? What if your husband, the man who once adored you, increasingly belittles you, threatens you, and tries to control you? What happens when you have to hide your most joyous moments from your husband? What happens when you start to believe his attacks, blaming yourself unfairly, becoming more submissive and depriving yourself of the very goals that bring you pleasure? How do you break out of this vicious cycle?
     Dr. Forward's book is a welcome eye-opener for any  woman trapped in this situation. She shows how this destructive pattern in relationships develops, what its origins are from childhood experiences, and most importantly, how to regain your self-confidence and the courage to leave the relationship, physically and psychologically. She offers specific advice on how to deal with your own self-sabotage, how to set clear boundaries, how to get professional help and how to effectively end the relationship.

"If you're sticking around only out of guilt, fear or a sense of duty, you may want to rethink your decision, or prepare  yourself for a life of self-imposed incarceration: you are the prisoner, and you are the keeper of the keys." "Affairs are not so much  about sex, but about secrets and violation of trust" she says and she continues "trust is not a gift. It must be earned".

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It's not often that I read a book cover to cover and come away saying  that I can recommend this without commenting that  there are some parts I don't agree with. I really loved this book. She keeps the focus on your long range happiness.
"I hate life sometimes. I should have been able to see my sisters. I get real angry at my mom and dad. Sometimes I'm mad at the whole world." Divorce often leaves children in a path of devastation. Some children feel the chronic need, well into their adult lives, to try to please both parents, or to show pressured allegiance to one parent and shun the other. Some children have indelible memories of horrific fights and arguments prior to and after their parents divorce. Such children may promise themselves that they will never get married - it involves too much suffering. Some children are convinced that they are the hidden cause of their parent's divorce. Feelings of abandonment, fear, hurt and guilt become the norm. It's common for children to repeat the traumas of their childhood or to withdraw into a repressed silence, cutting themselves off from the pleasures of life. But much of this pain can be avoided, and everyone benefits. How? Dr. Bienenfeld lets you first hear from the children themselves. She then outlines a step-by-step method to help parents grasp the pain that their children are in and to help parents separate their own hostilities and financial battles from parenting issues. Although the parents are no longer marital partners, they will remain parent-partners for life. Given this, she outlines a method for helping them communicate clearly and fairly on all issues involving the children.

This is a comprehensive book covering divorce to remarriage.

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He offers an easy-to-read question and answer format.

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My pages are falling out of this book. Why? Because I have used it so many times with children. I highly recommend it for your children if you’re going through a divorce. Divorce is messy enough. But there are things that make it mentally agonizing for children. One of them is guilt--more specifically unearned guilt. Kids are at risk of thinking that it’s their fault when their parents divorce: I didn’t clean my room and dad and mom would fight over that. I yelled at my dad and that’s why he left.” ...
The first frame of this cartoon-like illustrated book has mom and dad sitting in overstuffed chairs, each with stern, furrowed brows and not engaged with each other. Dad is reading “Tyrannosaurus Daily Times” and mother is reading “Stegos in Paradise”--her book is upside down showing that her mind is elsewhere. The little dinosaur girl, with wide eyes, has her hands up in the air in total confusion. The caption reads: Divorce takes place between mothers and fathers. You are not to blame if your parents get divorced. Many a child and I have sat in therapy talking just about this one frame-- and it helped relieve them of some heavy unearned guilt. That’s damage control.
The next few frames illustrate how parents fight differently. Some have violent, noisy battles; others use the silent treatment and worse, some fight with kids when they are really angry with each other! This gives kids some well-needed psychological insight. Turn the page and you get the question: What about you? When your parents divorce, it’s natural to feel: sad, angry, afraid, confused, ashamed, guilty, relieved, worried about who will take care of you. Children often spend a lot of time on this page with each emotion, expressing what feelings they are having and the thoughts underlying them. The authors assure children that the bad feelings won’t last forever, and there is plenty they can do to help themselves feel better.
This short illustrated book covers so much:

• Longings that your parents will reconnect that often go unfulfilled.
  
• Telling friends that your parents are divorcing.
  
• Ways you can make living with one parent go smoother.
  
• Living in two homes: Focusing on the positive and recognizing that mom and dad may have different rules.
  
• Celebrating holidays and special occasions.
  
• Eventually meeting your parents new “friends.”
  
• Living with stepparents and possibly step-siblings.

The authors treat children with great empathy, as individuals capable of being responsible and making the major changes in their lives easier for themselves (and for their parents). They treat kids with respect. One suggestion: This is not a book to rush through if you are reading it with your child. It’s helpful to pause with them, if they are willing, and let them respond to the colorful cartoon frames that touch important issues in their young lives. Let them express themselves--and you may find that your loving attention and willingness to hear them goes a long way to making life a tad easier for you and your kids.

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A timeless gem that is well worth reading. He has an extrodinary understanding of how to communicate to get ideas across, how to listen with the purpose of understanding another person, how to deal with heated emotions in conversations, how to detect and deal with another person's irrationality, how to hear mixed contexts in conversation and much more.

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Couples Skills is an excellent source for learning essential communication skills. If you can sidestep some erroneous theoretical explanations (e.g., behaviorist or systems theory explanations and occasional moral relativism), you can gain lifetime skills from this book. It includes realistic examples and useful exercises in each of its four sections: basic communication skills, advanced skills, managing anger and conflict, and understanding and changing what goes wrong.

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"Show me a couple who has a mutually satisfying sexual relationship and I'll show you a couple I can pick out of a crowd. There's an almost visible bond between them—the gentle touches, knowing glances, laughter and warmth when their eyes meet.  You can feel the connection between them." (Davis, p. 32)
 How many couples miss this with their partner? Sex becomes a chronic source of tension  in too many relationships. One partner has a high drive; the other one has a "leave me alone" attitude. Michele Davis offers excellent advice for those wanting to rekindle their sexual relationship and strengthen their  marriage. She makes astute observations, such as noting the assumption many woman have that their husbands want sex because "having sex is like scratching an itch; it's a purely physical need."  She continues,"I am convinced that one of the grossest misunderstandings about sex is the belief many women have that men desire sex because they just want, or better yet, need a physical release. It's true that men (and some women) love an occasional quickie without much emotional hoopla. However I've been privileged to hear men describe the way they really feel when their wives aren't' interested. And if you've assumed that your husband wants sex  just to "get off," what I've heard will undoubtedly surprise you." (David, p. 56-7) 
 This book is an easy read, with plenty of relatable examples and excellent tips, i.e., sexy solutions. Davis has an excellent understanding of both partner's dilemmas and she bridges the understanding and communication gap that so often leads couples to divorce or to suffer unhappy marriages. She helps you recapture that mutually  satisfying sexual relationship, and more broadly, that soulmate relationship, you may have lost with your partner.