The Secrets of Enduring Love

Oct 9, 2024 6:16 PM

Author:Meg John Barker,Jacqui Gabb

The Secrets of Enduring Love focuses on what couples actually do to maintain, nurture and nourish their relationships. The reader will be taken on a journey through different ways of doing relationships, focusing on the key themes which came out of the research: everyday acts of kindness and appreciation; the importance of home; communication and conflict management; sex and intimacy; incorporating others into the relationship (children, pets, friends, hobbies); and telling your own love story.

One of the key messages from the research is that different things work for different people, and at different times in the relationship. For this reason the book focuses on the differnt practices that we might bring into our own relationships, helping us to recognise the small things which we may be already doing but which ordinarily go by unnoticed, and offering a helping hand to find out what works best for us.

Reviews

"Packed with useful, practical advice and how-to's, this book promises to be one that every parent will wish they had from day one."

—— Dr. Madeline Levine, New York Times bestselling author of "The Price of Privilege" and "Teach Your Children Well"

"What Great Parents Do is the only parenting playbook you need. No book has better distilled, science-based parenting tips than this one! If you have only two minutes a day, you have time pick up a quick strategy for parenting with more joy, skill, and ease. A must read!"

—— Christine Carter, PhD, author of "The Sweet Spot" and "Raising Happiness", and Senior Fellow, Greater Good Science Center, University of California, Berkeley

“Erica Reischer offers a 'cheat sheet' of best parenting practices. Equipped with her wisdom, we all have the potential to be ‘great parents.’”

—— Peggy Orenstein, New York Times bestselling author of "Girls & Sex" and "Cinderella Ate My Daughter"

"The great anthropologist Margaret Mead used to say that she could not understand our priorities: We require by law for people to get driving permits, but we allow people to bring up children without demonstrating any aptitude for parenting. If things were to change, Dr. Reischer's book would become an essential Rules of the Road for would-be parents."

—— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, New York Times bestselling author of "Flow"

"Dr. Erica Reischer delivers. With oodles of great scenarios drawn from real life, it’s like she hits the pause button, and whispers a key piece of advice. Reischer may be offering simple strategies, but the wisdom behind them is incredibly deep and profound."

—— Julie Lythcott-Haims, New York Times bestselling author of "How to Raise an Adult" and former dean, Stanford University

Told with admirable candour

—— Woman & Home

Hardly short of a masterpiece...Diana Melly writes with compelling candour

—— Daily Telegraph

This is Diana Melly's book, and she has the good literary sense (and the courage) to live in its pages in a way that makes me throw my hat in the air

—— Andrew O’Hagan , Daily Telegraph

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