After the Honeymoon: How Conflict Can Improve Your Relationship
- ISBN-10
- 0979563909
- ISBN-13
- 9780979563904
- Series
- After the Honeymoon
- Category
- Communication in marriage
- Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Daniel Wile
- Author
- Daniel B. Wile
Description
After the honeymoon. The very words carry a burden of sadness, as if for a short while we lived in a golden trance of love, and now weve been jolted awake. Immediately comes the thought, Oh no! Is this the person Im supposed to spend the rest of my life with? When choosing a partner, we are choosing, along with that person, a particular set of problems that we will be grappling with for the next ten, twenty, or even fifty years. Dan Wile shows how to take advantage of the inevitable problems that occur in a relationship to deepen the sense of connection. Most of these problems result from feelings we are unable to express and conversations we are unable to have. We become angry because we are unable to confide feeling hurt. We become defensive because we are unable to confide feeling threatened. We become uncompromising because of the hidden compromises we are already making. Exposing these undercurrents can turn fights into intimate conversations.
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