Description
Book SynopsisKeep Your Marriage StrongCouples communication and relationship experts David Bulitt and Julie Bulitt share their relational knowledge in Secrets of Strong Couples. With stories and marriage help tested by real couples, learn how to survive and thrive after relationship and marriage fights, becoming parents, deaths, and other struggles.Get partnership and marriage help tested by real couples. The relationship experts behind the bestselling The Core Conversations for Couples put together another essential couples book for relationships. Secrets of Strong Couples shows you how real couples have made it through to the other side of real crises—together.
Learn how to overcome couples communication hardships, marriage fights, and more. Walk alongside committed partners as you learn how to fix your marriage or relationship, no matter what life throws at you. Whether you’re dealing with infertility, job loss, infidelity, grief, or other relationship strife, these personal stories provide all the relationship and marriage advice you need to thrive!
Inside this essential couples gift, you’ll find:
- Practical advice from authors experienced in couples, marriage counseling and divorce law
- Examples of how to persevere through life’s most difficult trials without losing each other
- Real couples communication help from partners who are not afraid to share their difficult stories
Readers of couples books for relationships like This Is How Your Marriage Ends by Matthew Fray, Marriage Be Hard by Kevin Fredericks & Melissa Fredericks, or Communication Miracles for Couples by Jonathan Robinson will love Secrets of Strong Couples.
Trade Review“Written by a licensed relationship therapist and a divorce attorney, if you read this book, you won’t need the services of either! Insightful and relatable, the stories and advice in this book can help ANY couple!”
—Becca Anderson, author of Let Me Count the Ways
“As a matrimonial lawyer of forty years, I feel that Julie and David touched upon some very difficult subjects that couples are faced with, but they are unprepared to deal with. As a result, the issues are not discussed between them in a productive manner and can lead to acrimony in the relationship. The wonderful dynamic between this couple is remarkable—with David ‘stating the obvious’ (i.e., what everyone is thinking but afraid to say) in a manner that normalizes the issue; and then Julie steps in to reframe the issue so as to enlighten and teach the psychological perspective. The result: it brings hope to the couple, which is just terrific. Julie looks behind what is actually happening, and articulates the source of the problem, not what appears to be happening on the surface, so it is easier for the couple to understand and deal with. I found the chapters addressing bipolar disorder, ADHD, trans issues, and boundaries with parents particularly enlightening because parents just do not know how to deal with these topics and are ashamed to even discuss them. The Bulitts’ courage in sharing their own story made me cry, but that in and of itself brings authenticity to the entire book. Well done!”
—Robin Taub, Esquire, matrimonial lawyer
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: Drilling Down
The First Conflict: Becoming a Parent
- Karim and Natasha: Finding the Same Page
- John and Jennifer: Infertility, Adoption and the Second Time Around
- Megan and Sean: Religion, Family, and IVF
- Torrence and Tamika: Maybe It’s Not Meant to Be
- Brittany and Nicholas: Can We Go Thru It Again?
- Bethany and George: Yours, Mine, Ours?
The Second Conflict: Illness, Death and Loss
- Barbara and Steve: Silence and Strength Carry Them Through
- Linda and Matt: Our Boy Has Cancer
- Sarah and Michael: She’s Crazy. I Love Her.
- Jeff and Dana: It’s Not Jeff. It’s Someone Else. Someone I Don’t Know.
- Brandon and Lauren: Why Can’t He Be Normal?
- Tony and Nicole: He Used to Run. Now He Sleeps.
- Becca and Ron: She Won’t Get Better. And Then She’ll Die.
The Third Conflict: Jobs, Careers, and Money
- Ty and Candice: It’s a Man’s Job. I Failed.
- Randi and Jake: He Needs to Get Back to the Office
- Kyle and Morgan: I Thought It Was a Good Idea. Then the Credit Cards Got Maxed.
- Juan and Vanessa: Kids Are in School. I’m Back to Work.
- Noah and Lindsey: We’re Broke. Are We Broken?
- Troy and Angel: Up in Smoke
The Fourth Conflict: Frequent Fractures
- Kimberly and Ben: Only a One Nighter. Or Was It Two?
- Pam and Ryan: His Mom Makes Our Bed
- Gina and Todd: It Used to Just Take a Stiff Wind
- Christie and Jim: Another Dead Soldier
- Tristan and Carly: He Gambled. We Lost.
- Keith and Anna: I Have Three children. Didn’t Ask for a Fourth.
The Fifth Conflict: Living Your Life
- Aimee and Claudia: Yes, We’re Gay. Yes, That’s Our Son.
- Max and Inez: We’re Jewish. He’s Black.
- Maya and Howard: It’s Not as Sweet as a Cookie
- Jamar and Nichelle: He Should Be Hammering Nails, Not Painting Them
- Cam and Erin: Black Plus White Equals What Exactly?
- Corey and Scott: It’s Not the 1950s. Or Is It?
The Takeaway
About the Authors
