Shows how to go beyond unrealistic marital expectations and discover the attitudes, techniques, and simple day-to-day pleasures that characterize an enduring partnership

Now That I'm Married, Why Isn't Everything Perfect?: The 8 Essential Traits of Couples Who Thrive

Self-Help

PAGE, SUSAN

Relationships

Little,Brown & Co

Formerly titled Now That I'm Married, Why Isn't Everything Perfect?, this wise and useful guide has gained extraordinary critical acclaim from the foremost experts in the relationship field, and has helped thousands of couples achieve more fulfilling relationships. Drawing on more than twenty years of couples' counseling experience, Dr. Susan Page explains the eight essential traits of a thriving marriage: Desire, belief, and commitment Goodwill Clear values Boundaries Perspective Relationship-enhancing communication Intimacy Pleasure This helpful, optimistic guide also reveals how husbands and wives can escape the crushing burden of unrealistic expectations that many people bring to a marriage, and what attitudes, techniques, and day-to-day pleasures will forge a happy, enduring relationship. With clarity, warmth and common sense to complement her profound insight, Susan Page delivers an extraordinary work for anyone who's in a relationship--and anyone who wants to be.

The 8 Essential Traits of Couples Who Thrive

Parenting & Relationships

Random House Publishing Group

Publishers buy new book ideas every week. Why not yours? Whether your book consists of a few notes on the back of a napkin or a completed manuscript, Susan Page's proven system will make your dream of successful publication come true. A bestselling author and leading consultant to other writers, Susan Page knows the difference between common industry wisdom that doesn't work and the precise, easy-to-follow strategies that actually get results. In this breakthrough book, she leads you away from the obstacles that often delay and frustrate writers and introduces the twenty essential steps for success, including: The three "magic first steps" you must take now to claim success later on The real differences between self-publishing and selling to a publisher Clever methods for finding a truly brilliant title for your book The formula for writing proposals that get read...and then bought A deliberate method for finding the right agent for you The six biggest hidden heartbreaks in publishers' contracts and how to avoid them The range of royalty advances and how much you might expect (hint: it may be larger than you think!) Seven minimum requirements for a six-figure advance A step-by-step method for planning your own "blockbuster" promotion Susan Page not only tells you how to proceed, she anticipates how you might feel at various stages and deftly coaches you through the best and the worst of it all. And the gift many of her clients have appreciated most is the crucial, little-known skill of keeping your hopes high and your expectations realistic. This book will leave you feeling excited, inspired, and ready to get to work.

Shortest Distance Between You and a Published Book

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Broadway Books

This breakthrough book, How One of You Can Bring the Two of You Together, suggests a completely different approach for improving a marriage. Susan Page dispels the myth that repairing a relationship is necessarily a two-person task and shows that making changes in your marriage by yourself is an effective and a low-stress strategy. Based on the premise that what you do in a relationship changes how you feel about it, Page shows you how you can take individual action that will result in mutual strength and happiness. Step by step, Page demonstrates that the secret to a thriving marriage is finding the balance between taking care of yourself and extending good will to your partner. Through a series of experiments, she introduces the concept of Loving Leadership and presents a range of solo strategies for creating harmony in a marriage, including how to: * Develop fresh perspectives about your relationship * Overcome resentment and move beyond blame * Solve major problems--one at a time * Ensure that your needs are met regardless of your partner's actions * Recapture lost intimacy With tangible goals, you can work through your own frustrations to arrive at new thinking and new actions. In this wise and inspiring book, you will learn, as Susan Page writes, that: "Deciding to work alone on your relationship gives you enormous power, not power over your partner, but inner power and personal strength. Working alone on your relationship gives you an unparalleled opportunity to grow." For anyone in a relationship that needs major repairs--or just a little TLC--here is the ultimate do-it-yourself handbook.

How One of You Can Bring the Two of You Together: Breakthrough Strategies to Solve Your Conflicts and Reignite Your Love

Broadway

Susan Page’s bestselling relationship book has been translated into 18 languages, is being read in more than 25 countries, and its mass-market edition has sold more than 158,000 copies. At the heart of this book are Page’s famed 10 strategies for readers to better self-understanding and ultimately a fulfilling relationship. Filled with revealing anecdotes, case studies, and quizzes, the book’s down-to- earth guidance will appeal to everyone who devoured books like Mars and Venus on a Date and Getting the Love You Want, and anyone who wants a fulfilling intimate relationship. "Behold a wonder–a romantic self-help book that is intelligent, upbeat, practical, useful, winning, and even wise." –Kirkus Reviews From the Trade Paperback edition.

If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single?: Ten Strategies That Will Change Your Love Life Forever

Bantam]

How One of You Can Bring the Two of You Together suggests a completely different approach to improving a marriage. This audiobook shows that making changes in your marriage by yourself is an effective and low-stress strategy, because you are not at the mercy of your partner's moods, timing, communication skills, or willingness to work. When you make a change in your behavior or your attitude entirely on your own, you can work a miracle in your marriage. How One of You Can Bring the Two of You Together, you will learn the fundamental shift which takes place in your thinking, from "How much am I giving/How much is my partner giving?" to "How much am I giving/How much am I taking?"--two factors over which you have complete control. Through a series of experiments and exercises suggested in this book, you will have the opportunity to review your relationship, see how others have made subtle changes in their thinking and behavior and reaped great amounts of happiness, and how you can use those same lessons and make your marriage a much happier and satisfying place to be. In this wise and inspiring new audiobook, Page introduces us to the concept of Loving Leadership, and offers specific strategies for shifting your viewpoint, managing resentment, solving nagging problems, and re-establishing intimacy with your spouse. With tangible goals, you can work through your own frustrations to get to new thinking and new actions. The secret in this audiobook which leads you to a successful, gratifying marriage is learning how to balance taking care of yourself and extending good will to your partner. And, Susan Page says, "Deciding to work alone on your relationship gives you enormous power, not power over your partner, but inner power and personal strength. Working alone on your relationship gives you an unparalleled opportunity to grow."

How One of You Can Bring the Two of You Together: Breakthrough Strategies to Resolve your Conflicts & Reignite Your Love

Random House Audio |

If I'm So Wonderful Why Am I Single?

Health, Fitness & Dieting

HarperCollins, Publishers

Susan Page, a Protestant minister, popular teacher, and bestselling writer on relationships, now turns her hand to a crucial question so many couples face: If we know we love each other, why do we spend so much of our time together arguing, negotiating, or making up? Why, quite simply, aren’t we happy? Susan has explored this question while working with and observing countless couples struggling in their relationships. She discovered something revolutionary: even the most troubled couples could be enjoying each other if only they would adopt a few simple yet powerful and deeply spiritual principles. Another revelation: it only takes one member of the couple to make this work. Yet another: by adopting these principles and letting go of the popular myths and assumptions about relationships so many of us have been taught, you can not only vastly improve your relationship but develop your own inner sense of self. Your relationship can become your spiritual path. Those who have followed Susan’s program report that their relationships have become loving again, and that their sense of self-esteem and spiritual development has been deepened. They no longer call what they have with their mate a marriage or relationship but rather a true spiritual partnership. The process outlined here is simple yet profound and is based on what Susan calls five sacred principles or acts that one member or both members of the couple follow, principles that emerge naturally out of the spiritual traditions of Christianity and Buddhism.

If We're So In Love, Why Aren't We Happy?: Using Spiritual Principles to Solve Real Problems and Restore Your Passion

Harmony

Susan Page’s bestselling relationship book has been translated into 18 languages, is being read in more than 25 countries, and its mass-market edition has sold more than 158,000 copies. At the heart of this book are Page’s famed 10 strategies for readers to better self-understanding and ultimately a fulfilling relationship. Filled with revealing anecdotes, case studies, and quizzes, the book’s down-to- earth guidance will appeal to everyone who devoured books like Mars and Venus on a Date and Getting the Love You Want, and anyone who wants a fulfilling intimate relationship. "Behold a wonder–a romantic self-help book that is intelligent, upbeat, practical, useful, winning, and even wise." –Kirkus Reviews

Harmony/Rodale/Convergent

Offers positive advice for singles searching for long-term relationships by identifying the ten most common mistakes made by individuals in search of commitment and explaining how to avoid them

If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? : Ten Strategies That Will Change Your Love Life Forever

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Now That I'm Married, Why Isn't Everything Perfect?: The 8 Essential Traits of Couples Who Thrive

The 8 Essential Traits of Couples Who Thrive

Shortest Distance Between You and a Published Book

How One of You Can Bring the Two of You Together: Breakthrough Strategies to Solve Your Conflicts and Reignite Your Love

If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single?: Ten Strategies That Will Change Your Love Life Forever

How One of You Can Bring the Two of You Together: Breakthrough Strategies to Resolve your Conflicts & Reignite Your Love

If I'm So Wonderful Why Am I Single?

If We're So In Love, Why Aren't We Happy?: Using Spiritual Principles to Solve Real Problems and Restore Your Passion

If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single?: Ten Strategies That Will Change Your Love Life Forever

If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? : Ten Strategies That Will Change Your Love Life Forever