Description

'Our needs are too different.'
'We've just grown apart.'
'Maybe we never really loved each other.'

Sentiments like these are expressed time and time again by once-happy couples as they watch their marriages start to crumble around them. Renowned family therapist, Dr William Doherty says they've got it all wrong. Today's divorce epidemic is not an inevitable outgrowth of human change or the fickle nature of love. Rather, it is the result of overwhelming and conflicting demands on our time, rampant consumerism, and the often-skewed emphasis we place on personal fulfilment. These are powerful forces, Dr Doherty acknowledges, and they do pull relationships apart, but they are not insurmountable. Young couples who want to hold tight to happily-ever-after, and long-time spouses on the brink of break-up, can fight back to restore a marriage worth saving - even when it seems too late. This book shows how.

A Strong Marriage describes how to break free of such common traps as confusing individual desires with needs, applying a trade-in-the-old-model mentality to your own spouse, or becoming overtime parents instead of fulltime parents. The author also discusses the thorny problem of unintentional marital sabotage from family, friends, even counsellors who may not believe commitment is worth fighting for.

About the Author

Dr William Doherty has practised as a marriage and family therapist in the US since the 1970s, and is currently Professor and Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the University of Minnesota.