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	Full Title:	Couples How to Confront Problems and Maintain Loving Relationships
	Author(s):	Dr. Carlfred Broderick
	Publishing / Edition:	Simon and Schuster, 1979

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Chapter 1.

The Principle of Emotional Space
Helping Your Spouse Increase His or Her Emotional Space
Increasing Your Own Emotional Space

Chapter 2.

Creative Listening
Effective Sending

The Nonsender
The Angry Sender
The Obscure Sender

Clear-Channel Communication Exercise

Rules for Sender
Rules for Listener

Chapter 3.

Competitive Messages
Messages in the Supportive Mode
Exercises for Identifying Message Styles

Identifying and Increasing Supportive Messages
Identifying and Decreasing Competitive Messages

Chapter 4.

Differing Expectations
Core Symbols
Major Discrepancies in Life Scripts
Negotiating Improved Marital Scripts

Instructions for "Wish List" Exercise
An Optional Wish Form

Chapter 5.

Chapter 6.

107

Types of Resentment Hoarders

The Hedgehog
The Fox
The Magpie
The Mole
The Bear
The Hound Dog

Alternatives to Hoarding Resentment
Exercises

Disengaging from Power Struggles
Learning Assertiveness

Chapter 7.

126

Loss
Powerlessness
Boredom
Resentment Turned Inward

Chapter 8.

138

Sharing Sexual Scripts
Nondemand Pleasuring

Nondemand, Nonsexual Pleasuring
Nondemand Sexual Pleasuring
Nondemand Pleasuring Including Intercourse

Special Exercise for Premature Ejaculators

Learning Extravaginal Control
Learning Intravaginal Control

The Kegel Exercise for Improving Vaginal Tone
Making Love Versus Having Sex

Chapter 9.

156

The Case for Sexual Fidelity
Guidelines for Preserving Fidelity

The Three R's of Infidelity
Resentment
Rationalization
Rendezvous

Surviving Infidelity and Growing from the Experience

Chapter 10.

169

Triangles

The Negotiated Solution
The Imposed Solution
The Philosophical Solution

Ghosts
Exercises

Negotiating Solutions to Triangular Problems
Imposing Solutions to Triangular Problems
Achieving the Philosophical Solution

On Profiting from Experience

Chapter 11.

190

Competing with Crisis

Resources
Defining the Situation

Chapter 12.

205

Divorce
Open Marriage
Having Children
Child Abuse
The Women's Movement
Dual Career Marriages
Homosexuality in Marriage
Mixed Marriages
Computer Dating
Annual Marital Checkups

Chapter 13.

214

Training and Professional Affiliation

Psychiatrists
Clinical Psychologists
Marriage and Family Counselors
Social Workers
Pastoral Counselors
Sex Counselors

Personal Qualities
The Effectiveness of Therapy
Places to Write for Qualified Relationship Counselors in Your Area

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