Relationships Matter

Making it as a Couple provides specific recipes, easy to follow prescriptions, and precise methods that have an immediate impact on relationships. Dr. Fay shows you how to avoid inflammatory reactions, how to circumvent power struggles, and how to phrase requests, suggestions, observations and objections so that they are understood and respected.

User Reviews about Making it as a Couple: Prescription for a Quality Relationship

One of the best self help books for a marriage that has gotten off on the wrong foot, causing unhappiness and misunderstanding. It is truely a "self"-help book, as it asks the reader to examine their own behavior in relation to their spouse, and shows how changing one's own behavior causes positive changes in the spouse's behavior. AND IT WORKS! The book is simple to read without being simplistic,and has easy to follow guidence. It is an excellent resource for a person whose spouse refuses to go to marriage counselling. -- One of the best!

I was in a shaky monogamous relationship and was LOST as to if it was I that was responsible for what was going on! I didnt know where to turn,or what to do~ as my friends were telling me EXACTLY what WANTED to hear! NOT what I NEEDED to hear!
This book is like a WORKBOOK in GUIDING YOU to better COMMUNICATION....dealing with dissaprovement....criticism..blaming and self-justifying....and even being right!....being more attentive....double standards and soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much more!
IT helped ME tremendously to understand how everything I SAY or DO makes a tremendous difference in either having a GREAT relationship or one that left me feeling lost,alone and FRUSTRATED!!
I HIGHLY RECOMMENED THIS EASY TO READ book! -- PQR: Prescription for a QUALITY RELATIONSHIP

My feeling is that most "self help" books, in reality, are the authors helping themselves to the reader's money. With that as my overall opinion I decidedly was not excited when my girlfriend insisted I get a copy of "Making it as a Couple." I agreed to read it only to make her happy. However, after reading just the first dozen or so pages, I was really impressed. I stayed up and finished the book in one night.

It is spectacular!

Fay's insights, principals, and ideas are BRILLIANT! The book has no shrink-double talk and no Freudian bull**** or touchy-feelie filler. Instead each and every page has at least one very real, genuinely creative, unique, and practical ideas on what to do when there's problems in a relationship. I can't say Arlene (my girlfriend) and I now live in perfect relationship bliss. BUT this book did help uncover our major problems and (MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL) told us SPECIFICALLY how we could solve them! In fact, things are the best they have ever been with us. The shrink that wrote the book (Fay) helped us more (without ever meeting us) than a local psychiatrist/so-called relationship expert that I paid over $1,000.00 to for nine office visits. The book is an undiscovered gem. If I sound like I'm wild about this book--- that's true. I can't say enough good stuff about it.

With this book and a few hours I think any couple can solve their own problems ...or at least get a good idea if they are solvable. We spent two hours a week AS A COUPLE using the book's relationship tools. The techniques given might at first seem crazy. But upon reflection and use you'll see they work. In fact we have gone months without a fight (in the past ... every week had at least one big blowup). Now we seriously talking about getting married! I can't recommend this book highly enough. I know I sounds like one of those morons on Oprah-Jerry-Ricky ... but the truth is the book really changed my life! I can only say that about one other book (and that's my bankbook).

PWKane@Apexmail.com -- An absolute gem that saved my relationship!