Relationship, Family & Marriage Counseling Books

Take a look at the recommended reading materials for those who are looking for marriage & family therapy, couples, premarital and relationship counseling help books. These self help books may assist in providing you with important insights that could direct the steps you need to take to save your relationship

At MarriageMD we believe in a comprehensive approach to marriage counseling and relationship advice. Part of our free service is to provide information on couples therapy books, self help marital programs and family magazines that provide further insights as to how you can improve your marriage and relationship.

If you have marriage problems, or a general interest in marriage therapy, relationship advice or the professions of marriage counseling or family therapy the following literature may be of interest to you.

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Too Good To Leave Too Bad To Stay
by Mira Kirshenbaum
It's not just the book you turn to to make sure you made the best choice under the circumstances. It's the book you refer to again and again and again to help you learn what IS a healthy relationship, what IS love. Because in showing us what ill-health can look like, Kirshenbaum also teaches those of us who just didn't get it what we can look for in the future, when our hearts decide to risk again.

Getting the Love You Want
by Harville Hendrix
When Harville Hendrix writes about relationships, he discusses them not just as an educator and a therapist, but as a man who has himself been through a failed marriage. Hendrix felt the sting of his divorce intensely because he believed it signaled not only his failure as a husband but also his failure as a couples counselor. Investigating why his marriage dissolved led him to start looking into the psychology of love.

Black Sheep & Kissing Cousins
by Elizabeth Stone
Elizabeth Stone, whose grandparents came from Italy to Brooklyn, artfully weaves her own family stories among the stories of more than a hundred people of all backgrounds, ages, and regions-clarifying for us predictable types of family legends, providing ways to interpret our own stories and their roles in our lives. She examines stories of birth, death, work, money, romantic adventure-all in the context of the family storytelling ritual.

Facing Codependence
by Pia Mellody
In this fresh new look at codependence, Pia Mellody traces the origins of this illness back to childhood, describing a whole range of emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical, and sexual abuses. Because of these earlier experiences, codependent adults often lack the skills necessary to lead mature lives and have satisfying relationships.

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
by Nan Silver, Ph.D. John Gottman
According to most relationship books, the key to a solid marriage is communication, communication, communication. Phooey, says John Gottman, Ph.D., author of the much-lauded Why Marriages Succeed or Fail. There's much more to a solid, "emotionally intelligent" marriage than sharing every feeling and thought, he points out--though most couples therapists ineffectively (and expensively) harp on these concepts.