Building a Love That Lasts: The Seven Surprising Secrets of Successful Marriage

The Best Relationship Book of 2008 is now in paperback

Drs. Charles and Elizabeth Schmitz's award-winning book reveals how to sustain a long-term loving marriage. In addition to exploring the seven key ingredients that define a successful marriage--togetherness, truthfulness, respect and kindness, staying fit, joint finances, tactile communication, and surprise and unpredictability--the authors have included hundreds of insightful and practical interviews with happy couples.

• Focuses on what's right about a successful relationship, rather than what's wrong
• Written by a popular and very active couple known as the marriage doctors, who lead lectures, training, workshops, and other events every week all over the country
• Contains candid interviews with a diverse collection of happily married couples from around the world

This book offers a positive, upbeat approach to living happily ever after.

Author: Charles D. Schmitz, Elizabeth a. Schmitz
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 01/01/2010
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.34w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780470571545

About the Author

Dr. Charles D. Schmitz is dean and professor of counseling and family therapy, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and his wife, Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz, is president of their joint enterprise, Successful Marriage Reflections, LLC. Married for 43-plus years, they live in St. Louis, Missouri.

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