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Improving Your Relationship For Dummies is your essential guide to being happy with your partner. Whether you want to work through tiresome niggles, iron out potential issues before taking the next step, cope with serious problems, or simply fortify your partnership against the ups and downs of daily life, this reassuring relationship manual provides all the expert advice and practical support you need. Packed with key information on managing change, successful cohabitation, overcoming jealousy and igniting passion, and including worksheets designed to get you and your partner thinking and working together, this is your passport to a loving, communicative relationship that's set to last.

Improving Your Relationship For Dummies includes:

PART I - PREPARING FOR RELATIONSHIP CHANGE
Chapter 1 - Understanding the Economics of Love                      
Chapter 2 - Doing a Relationship Inventory                                             
Chapter 3 - Developing the Ground Rules of a Successful Relationship

PART II - BOOSTING YOUR RELATIONSHIP
Chapter 4 - Prioritising Your Relationship                                               
Chapter 5 - Doing Oodles of Soppy Stuff                                                      
Chapter 6 - The Essentials of Sex                                                                
Chapter 7 - Turning Up the Sexual Thermostat                                           

PART III - IMPROVING COMMUNICATION AND RESOLVING CONFLICT
Chapter 8 -Establishing the Rules of Effective Communication
Chapter 9 - Resolving Conflict                 
Chapter 10 - Breaking the Argument Cycle                           

PART IV - WORKING THROUGH RELATIONSHIP ISSUES
Chapter 11 - Overcoming Day to Day Grumbles                              
Chapter 12 - Handling the Bigger Issues                                   
Chapter 13 - Managing Major Life Changes                
Chapter 14 - Surviving an Affair                     
Chapter 15 - Recognising When it's Over                                

PART V - THE PART OF TENS                  
Chapter 16: Ten Rules of Effective Communication
Chapter 17: Ten Ways to Ignite Passion 
Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Avoid a Row 
Chapter 19: Ten Great Expectations for Couples

APPENDIX                                                                                                                                          
Worksheets for couples to work through together to assess the areas of their relationship they want to work on and resolve conflict.    

Paula Hall is a registered sexual and relationship psychotherapist with UKCP. She is a Relate-trained couple's counsellor and psychosexual therapist, currently working in private practice. Paula is also a member of the Relate media team and regularly comments on relationship issues in the national news, on the radio and in various publications.