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Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage

By: John M. Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman, Joan DeClaire
Narrated by: Susan Denaker
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In Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage, marital psychologists John and Julie Gottman provide vital tools - scientifically based and empirically verified - that you can use to regain affection and romance lost through years of ineffective communication.

In 1994, Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washington made a startling announcement: Through scientific observation and mathematical analysis, they could predict - with more than 90 percent accuracy - whether a marriage would succeed or fail. The only thing they did not yet know was how to turn a failing marriage into a successful one, so Gottman teamed up with his clinical psychologist wife, Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman, to develop intervention methods. Now the Gottmans, together with the Love Lab research facility, have put these ideas into practice.

What emerged from the Gottmans’ collaboration and decades of research is a body of advice that’s based on two surprisingly simple truths: Happily married couples behave like good friends, and they handle their conflicts in gentle, positive ways.

The authors offer an intimate look at 10 couples who have learned to work through potentially destructive problems - extramarital affairs, workaholism, parenthood adjustments, serious illnesses, lack of intimacy - and examine what they’ve done to improve communication and get their marriages back on track.

Hundreds of thousands have seen their relationships improve thanks to the Gottmans’ work. Whether you want to make a strong relationship more fulfilling or rescue one that’s headed for disaster, Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage is essential listening.

©2006 John M. Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman, and Joan DeClaire (P)2006 Books on Tape

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This was quite a boring book

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

Maybe if you like monotonous reading.

Would you recommend Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage to your friends? Why or why not?

NO! It is very slow in the advance of the book and quite hard to follow.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Susan Denaker?

The author?

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

Probably yes, but I couldnt stand to hear it all. Probably the written version is MUCH BETTER than the readed one.

Any additional comments?

Check well the samples before buying a book. ;)

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Horrible

I just couldn't handled the way this book was written. It replays a bunch of conversations analyzing what every single sentance means - it is agonizing to listen to. The content may be OK - I don't know. It was worse than reading a text book. I am not giving up on the topic, just this book.

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Not worth it

There is no way to fully enjoy this book or even apply it to your marriage. The constant exercises are annoying. That part should be deleted in the audible as it truly detracts from the book. I could not even finish the book

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Disappointing

Sorry I was horribly disappoint

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I think this would be better in paper

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I think the information in this book is good information, but I couldn't finish listening to it. It was so boring and the narrator was just not captivating at all. There are a also a lot of examples in the book where thee refer to what the husband said and then the wife... I get so lost because of the monotone. I think this could be a fantastic book but maybe more for print.

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I just couldn't handled the way this book was written. It replays a bunch of conversations analyzing what every single sentance means - it is agonizing to listen to. The content may be OK - I don't know. It was worse than reading a text book. I am not giving up on the topic, just this book.

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