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Married to Distraction

How to Restore Intimacy and Strengthen Your Partnership in an Age of Interruption

Restoring Intimacy and Strengthening Your Marriage in an Age of Interruption

Restoring Intimacy and Strengthening Your Marriage in an Age of Interruption

By Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., Sue Hallowell and Melissa Orlov

By Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., Sue Hallowell and Melissa Orlov

By Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., Sue Hallowell and Melissa Orlov

By Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., Sue Hallowell and Melissa Orlov

By Edward Hallowell, Sue Hallowell and Melissa Orlov
Read by Edward Hallowell and Sue Hallowell

By Edward Hallowell, Sue Hallowell and Melissa Orlov
Read by Edward Hallowell and Sue Hallowell

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Feb 08, 2011 | ISBN 9780345508003

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Mar 16, 2010 | ISBN 9780345519313

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Mar 16, 2010 | 293 Minutes

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    About Married to Distraction

    Are you more distant from your spouse than you’d like to be? Do you or your spouse waste time mindlessly viewing email or surfing the Web? Welcome to the club! Modern marriage is busy, distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing lists of things to do, superficial electronic connections, and interrupted moments. The good news is that there are straightforward and effective ways to restore communication and connection, resurrect happiness and romance, and strengthen—even save—a marriage.
     
    • Observe the natural sequence of sustaining love: attention, time, connection, and play.
    • Develop and nurture empathy—the essential building block to healthy communication.
    • Carve out small moments of uninterrupted attention for each other.
    • Identify the pressures that our crazybusy lifestyles put on love and marriage, and fight back with tenderness and appreciation.

    Complete with scripts, tips, communication techniques, and a detailed 30-day reconnection plan, as well as inspiring real-life stories, Married to Distraction will set couples on a course of understanding, healing, and love.

    About Married to Distraction

    Are you more distant from your spouse than you’d like to be? Do you or your spouse waste time mindlessly viewing email or surfing the Web? Welcome to the club! Modern marriage is busy, distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing lists of things to do, superficial electronic connections, and interrupted moments. The good news is that there are straightforward and effective ways to restore communication and connection, resurrect happiness and romance, and strengthen—even save—a marriage.
     
    • Observe the natural sequence of sustaining love: attention, time, connection, and play.
    • Develop and nurture empathy—the essential building block to healthy communication.
    • Carve out small moments of uninterrupted attention for each other.
    • Identify the pressures that our crazybusy lifestyles put on love and marriage, and fight back with tenderness and appreciation.

    Complete with scripts, tips, communication techniques, and a detailed 30-day reconnection plan, as well as inspiring real-life stories, Married to Distraction will set couples on a course of understanding, healing, and love.

    About Married to Distraction

    Modern marriage is busy, distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing lists of things to do, superficial electronic connections, and interrupted moments. Now Edward M. Hallowell, the bestselling co-author of Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction, teams up with his wife, Sue George Hallowell, a couples’ therapist, to explain the subtle but dangerous toll today’s overstretched, undernurtured lifestyle takes on our most intimate relationship. The good news is that there are straightforward and effective ways to maneuver your marriage out of the destructive roadblocks created by the avalanche of busy living.
    • Observe the natural sequence of sustaining love: attention, time, connection, and play.
    • Develop and nurture empathy—the essential building block to healthy communication.
    • Carve out small moments of uninterrupted attention for each other.
    • Identify the pressures that our crazybusy lifestyles put on love and marriage, and fight back with tenderness and appreciation.
                All of us who have been part of a couple for more than a few years will recognize ourselves in this reassuring book. Married to Distraction will set couples on a course of understanding, healing, and love.

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    About Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.

    Edward Hallowell, M.D., is a board-certified child and adult psychiatrist, a world-renowned keynote speaker, and the New York Times bestselling author or co-author… More about Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.

    About Sue Hallowell

    Sue George Hallowell, LICSW, has been a practicing couples’ therapist for more than twenty-five years. The Hallowells are the parents… More about Sue Hallowell

    About Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.

    Edward Hallowell, M.D., is a board-certified child and adult psychiatrist, a world-renowned keynote speaker, and the New York Times bestselling author or co-author… More about Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.

    About Sue Hallowell

    Sue George Hallowell, LICSW, has been a practicing couples’ therapist for more than twenty-five years. The Hallowells are the parents… More about Sue Hallowell

    About Edward Hallowell

    Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., is an instructor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Hallowell Center for Cognitive and… More about Edward Hallowell

    About Sue Hallowell

    Sue George Hallowell, LICSW, has been a practicing couples’ therapist for more than twenty-five years. The Hallowells are the parents… More about Sue Hallowell

    Product Details

    Category: Self-Improvement & Inspiration | Psychology

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Ballantine Books
    Feb 08, 2011 | 240 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780345508003

    Category: Self-Improvement & Inspiration | Psychology

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Ballantine Books
    Mar 16, 2010 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9780345519313

    Category: Parenting | Psychology | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $15.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Mar 16, 2010 | 293 Minutes | ISBN 9780307713131

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    Praise

    “I urge all people who yearn for more in their marriages to read this book—in particular, those hungry to move beyond conflict and condemnation to connection and understanding.”—Judith Warner, author of Perfect Madness

    “Wise and compassionate . . . This is a unique, engaging, and profoundly helpful book. It can save a marriage or simply help people in happy marriages get closer and feel more fulfilled.”—Suzy Welch, author of 10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea

    “This timely book could save your marriage.” —Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
     
    “Clear-sighted wisdom . . . Those in search of practical, concrete advice for creating and saving marriages will find what they need.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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