Going the Distance: Finding and Keeping Lifelong Love

This is not just another marriage manual- it is an essential guide to navigating life's potentially most fulfulling & exciting journey with your significant "other". Some highlights are: ...The six essential ingredients that form the basis for a successful relationship. ...The fifty-item "Compatibility Questionnaire" to help you evaluate how well suited you are to each other. ...Methods for overcoming commitment phobias. ...Techniques to resolve and avoid power struggles and battles for control. ...Constructive alternatives for conflict resolution. ...Ways to keep your sexual relationship vital. ...Guideline for combating relationship fatigue........ This book can also help show you how an intimate relationship can help heal the scars and wounds from a painful past experience. I found this book to be really helpful.

Whether you are in a new relationship, determining if you should seriously commit to one or married, the information in this book will help you. This book provides invaluable information about how to communicate with your partner, how to resolve differences and how to evaluate your relationship. The chapter regarding criteria for commitment was both eye opening and superb. I wish that I had read this book years ago. I found this book to be an easy read, but still packed with great amounts of useful information. If you don't read this book, you're missing out!

There are probably over a thousand self-help books in print which were written to offer relationship advice and help. This book is among the best you will find in that category. Once you start reading this book, you will immediately realize that EVERYONE, married or not, is in the same boat: either looking to begin a relationship, healing from the wounds of a past relationship, or trying to maintain a relationship. Hence, almost everyone can benefit from this book. Whereas most books start with the assumption that you are are already in a committed relationship, this book starts from the very beginning: Courtship. The authors take what they call a preventative approach: they base it on their assumption that there are certain markers that define a sound and healthy relationship. They tell you what to look for along the way, beginning with that first email, or phonecall or date. As a middle aged male, I can heartily recommend this book for men as well as for women. One little example: in this book, they discuss the role of intuition. Too often we dismiss the little voices inside that tell us something is wrong in the relationship. These authors are very adamant that one must listen to this voice of the intuition, and trust it! This is also a book about healing, and beginning again. Read this book once a year for at least three years. It can save you from getting involved with the wrong person, or from losing your marriage to divorce.

My sister recommended this book to me and I was immediately struck by the compassionate touch yet practical tone. Not too sentimental, but not too stand off-ish. I have since given a copy to another friend. There's no way you can't beneifit form this book. Good lay out. You'll want to send one to your sister too!

Smart, direct, practical advice that has changed the way I look not only at relationships but the way I look at myself. They tell you how to look for the right someone or reassess your present relationship. They then give practical advice on how to take a relationship all the way to "death do us part." The best self help book I've ever read. BUY IT!