The New Rules Of Marriage by Terrence Real
What You Need to Know to Make Love Work
A practical guide to transforming intimate partnerships from power struggles into collaborative, mutually cherishing bonds, it identifies the common “losing strategies”—being right, controlling, unbridled self-expression, retaliation, and withdrawal—and replaces them with skills for assertive vulnerability, generous listening, boundary-setting, and negotiation. It explains how cultural conditioning, especially around masculinity, fuels disconnection, and offers step-by-step tools like clear requests and structured feedback to repair ruptures, share leadership, and cultivate accountability. The result is a blueprint for moving from complaint to request, from blame to repair, and from individual agendas to an “us” that sustains trust, passion, and respect.
- Published
- 2007
- Nationality
- American
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- Pages
- 304-320
- Original Language
- English
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