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The Seven-Day Love Prescription

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In The Seven-Day Love Prescription, Dr John Schwartz Gottman and Dr Julie Schwartz Gottman offer a practical, science-backed guide to infusing your relationship with love and connection. Centred on a week-long plan, the book teaches couples daily exercises and insights to enhance emotional intimacy and understanding. It's a valuable resource for strengthening bonds and rekindling affection.
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If you're seeking a deeper connection with your partner, this insightful guide offers practical, daily exercises designed to strengthen love and intimacy. Ideal for those interested in nurturing healthier relationships, the book provides actionable advice from renowned experts in the field of emotional connection.

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Renew and revive your relationship in one week.

How can you revive and renew your relationship in just seven days?

For the past fifty years, Drs. John and Julie Gottman have been studying love. This book distils their work into an accessible, bite-size, seven-day action plan for deeper intimacy. Taking you through their most foundational findings, the Gottmans will help you build a love that lasts in just seven days.

Through small, immediately actionable daily steps, they will help you to shift your relationship for the better, providing trusted antidotes to common issues from loneliness and emotional and physical disconnection to drifting apart and losing that loving feeling. These will teach you how to:

  • Connect and check in with each other
  • Ask each other big, open-ended questions
  • Show appreciation and gratitude by saying thank you
  • Give your partner a genuine compliment
  • Communicate what you need
  • Create moments of physical connection
  • Declare a date night

No matter who you are, or what kind of relationship you want to strengthen, The Seven-Day Love Prescription is guaranteed to provide you with the practical tools to transform any relationship in your life for the better. The Gottmans prove that small frequent changes over just seven days can strengthen the foundations of all relationships, allowing them to flourish, and create big, long-lasting change over time.

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The Seven-Day Love Prescription by Dr John Schwartz Gottman and Dr Julie Schwartz Gottman is highly regarded for its actionable and hopeful approach to improving romantic relationships. The Gottmans, celebrated as leading marriage researchers, have crafted a guide praised for its honesty and ability to benefit any marriage or partnership. Experts consistently commend their deep insights into marital stability, making this book a valued resource for couples seeking to strengthen their bond.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241600382

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 October 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Life

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 149g

Pages: 208

About the Author

John Schwartz Gottman (Author) JOHN GOTTMAN, PHD, is the bestselling author of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work and numerous acclaimed books. His breakthrough work has won him four National Institute of Mental Health Research Science Awards, and he is a frequent guest on national media. He also co-founded the Gottman Institute with his wife, Julie. Julie Schwartz Gottman (Author) JULIE SCHWARTZ GOTTMAN, PHD, is an award-winning psychologist, co-creator of the Art and Science of Love weekend workshops, and author or co-author of five books, including Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage.

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