People in resilient relationships are co-owners, experience reciprocity, and are better prepared to meet challenges authentically and effectively. In this sequel to the best-sellingIrrelationship, the authors use examples from their clinical practice to review the concept of irrelationship and expand the DREAM Sequence, a tool used by affected couples to address perennial relationship issues.
By mutually and mindfully viewing the relationship as a third entity, separate from each individual, couples will learn how to live inandwith the ambiguity of empathy, intimacy, vulnerability, and emotional investment and view relationship sanity as a deliberate and joyful undertaking to maintain and deepen connection.
Mark B. Borg,
Grant H. Brenner, and
Daniel Berryare practitioners in the mental health field who bring over seven decades of experience of working with individuals, couples, families, and communities on how to maintain and thrive in loving relationships.
The authors bring over seven decades of experience of working with individuals, couples, families, and communities on how to maintain and thrive in loving relationships.Dr. Borg and Dr. Brenner have individually produced numerous well-received articles in a wide variety of professional journals and magazines, and as guest contributors to professional medical and psychological books.Meaningful romantic relationships are of universal interest, and this book speaks to a vast audience in search of practical suggestions and accessible advice on how to build and sustain fulfilling, authentic relationships.This book presents a workable, action-oriented model with techniques and experiential processes that help people achieve personal breakthroughs to catalyze enduring shifts in the way they love.The writing is both informative and entertaining, never technical or complicated, and the authors effectively use case studies that wlӟ