Audiobooks by Howard J. Markman

Fighting For Your Marriage: Positive Steps for Preventing Divorce and Building a Lasting Love, 4th e

"Fighting for Your Marriage is based on the widely acclaimed PREP approach (Prevention and Relationship Education Program). Research has found that couples who use these strategies can handle conflict more constructively, protect their happiness, and reduce the odds of breaking up. Based on more than forty years of evidence, this book shows couples how to talk more and fight less, protect their friendship, and keep the fun alive. The fourth edition has been updated with advice for couples from a wide range of backgrounds and types who are interested in lasting love. After listening, you will be able to: ● Apply up-to-date, research-backed strategies, using the renowned PREP approach to deepen your relationships ● Rekindle your marriage and bridge the emotional distance ● Repair your or your partner's lack of desire for sensual and sexual connections For decades, this book has helped couples in serious relationships, newly married couples, and long-term married couples. It is also a valuable resource for couples and family therapists, college professors, clergy, and other professionals working with individuals and couples who want to have happy, healthy relationships."

Galena K. Rhoades, Howard J. Markman, Janice R. Levine, Scott M. Stanley (Author), Mike Chamberlain (Narrator)

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12 Hours to a Great Marriage: A Step-by-Step Guide for Making Love Last

"For more than thirty years, the internationally renowned marital researchers from the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver have been helping couples around the globe replace loneliness with connection, frustration with understanding, fear with confidence, instability with commitment, revenge with forgiveness, and monotony with passion. Their program is called PREP®, short for the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program, and it's been so successful that its creators have been featured on Oprah, The Today Show, and 20/20, and its benefits have been documented in the New York Times, USA Today, Woman's Day, and Redbook. Until now the only way you could experience this winning twelve-hour program was to attend a weekend workshop. But now, with 12 Hours to a Great Marriage, you can discover the simple, effective strategies that have helped thousands of couples—happily married, having issues, or planning to marry—to develop and protect their love, easily and at your own pace. Each chapter covers one of the key ingredients of the program, like Being Best Friends, Having Fun Together, and Protecting and enhancing Your Love Life, and shows you how to take the steps that research shows are the basis for a long-term, healthy, loving marriage."

Carol Whiteley, Howard J. Markman, Natalie H. Jenkins, Scott M. Stanley, Susan L. Blumberg (Author), Chloe Cannon (Narrator)

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Fighting for Your Marriage

"A thorough revision with a new DVD of couples in action, using the PREP method for strengthening marriage and avoiding divorce court The third edition of the best-selling classic on marriage enhancement and divorce prevention, features the latest research and changes of heart in our culture and society. New and revised, Fighting for Your Marriage is based on the widely acclaimed PREP (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program) approach. Groundbreaking studies have found that couples can use the strategies of this approach to handle conflict more constructively, protect their happiness, and reduce the odds of breaking up. The book is based on more than twenty years of university research Explores how to apply the PREP approach to any marriage Shows couples how to talk more and fight less, deepen and protect their friendship, and keep the fun alive Reveals what it takes to have a more intimate, sensual relationship and how to clarify and act on priorities The authors have included a wealth of techniques and down-to-earth guidance for all couples who seek to promote greater character and pleasure in their long-term relationships."

Howard J. Markman, Scott M. Stanley, Susan L. Blumberg (Author), C.M. Herbert (Narrator)

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Why do Fools Fall in Love?: Experiencing the Magic, Mystery, and Meaning of Successful Relationships

"Thirty-two marriage and family experts set aside their professional personae to explain the wild and wonderful, irrational and passionate mystery of love. Written with simplicity and warmth, this book ultimately illuminates a deep and compassionate vision of what constitutes truly happy long-term relationships. Also included are pearls of wit and wisdom from celebrity couples, including Cokie and Steve Roberts, Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, George and Barbara Bush, Christopher Reeve and Dana Morosine, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, and others. Why Do Fools Fall in Love? will be cherished by all couples (and aspiring couples) who want to understand and energize that transformative power of love."

Howard J. Markman, Janice R. Levine (Author), Lloyd James, Marguerite Gavin (Narrator)

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