Emotional Fitness for Couples: 10 Minutes a Day to a Better Relationship

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A nationally recognized expert and radio personality offers a unique 10 minute a day program for helping couples exercise and tone their emotional skills, resolve problems, increase intimacy, have better sex, and cope honestly with anger and hurt.

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At last a book that not only guides the reader when it comes to successful relationships but shows us the value of emotional fitness: communication, nurturance and constancy, in partnering. By subscribing to Goldsmith's theory and practice, couples will end up with a more satisfying connection and a better sense of each other's needs, as well as their own.
--Susan Shapiro Barash, author of The New Wife: The Evolving Role of the American Wife

Goldsmith's articles and books on relationships are right on the mark.
--Edward M. Hallowell, MD, author of Driven from Distraction, Dare to Forgive, and Delivered from Distraction

I can HONESTLY say that Goldsmiths's book is outstanding-a really terrific combination of good bedside manner, useful and practical information, and common sense.
--Anne Sheffield, award winning author of Depression Fallout and How You Can Survive When They're Depressed

In Emotional Fitness for Couples, Goldsmith helps couples become proactive in their relationships by using easy to follow exercises and practical advice that allows them to enhance their interactions and their love.
--Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD, author of Love Is Letting Go of Fear

Love is all you need-but, you also need a well-written, easy-to-follow roadmap to the heartland. Renown relationship guru Barton Goldsmith has provided this map in Emotional Fitness. It is your guidebook to revitalizing your relationship.
--Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D., director of the Milton Erickson Foundation and organizer of the Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference

... I found this book to contain a great deal of wisdom, which is made easily accessible to the reader. I have experienced fifty wonderful years of married life and so know the practical steps to emotional fitness for couples shared here are of great value.
--Bernie Siegel, MD, author of Prescriptions for Living and 365 Prescriptions for the Soul

Barton Goldsmith has provided couples with a step-by-step guide to a healthy relationship. All couples, reading the short chapters and doing the explicit and powerful exercises, save, deepen and transform their relationship. I recommend it for all couples.
--Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., author of Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples and coauthor of Receiving Love

Bull's-eye! Like a Zen archer, Barton Goldsmith releases an arrow into the very center of intimacy. And like a Zen monk he writes with a disarming charm and graceful elegance, creating a book that is fun, funny, yet penetratingly wise. My advice is simple - Read it.
--Shawn Christopher Shea, MD, author of Happiness Is and Psychiatric Interviewing: the Art of Understanding

Goldsmith is the BEST natural born therapist I have ever met. I thoroughly enjoy working with him.
--David Viscott, MD, TV and radio talk show host and author of The Making of a Psychiatrist

This book has some very good ideas on how couples can stop their anger at each other and live more successfully together.
--Albert Ellis, Ph.D., noted psychologist and author of A Guide to Rational Living

Author Bio

Barton Goldsmith, PhD, is a multi-award winning psychotherapist, a syndicated columnist and radio host, and a recognized keynote speaker. He has appeared on many television shows and is frequently interviewed by the national press. He was named by Cosmopolitan magazine as one of America's top therapists, and is the author of a number of books, including Emotional Fitness for Couples and Emotional Fitness for Intimacy