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Emotional Infidelity Book

You don't have to have sex to cheat on your marriage, counsels M. Gary Neuman in his practical and provocative book, Emotional Infidelity. Neuman, a therapist, family mediator, and rabbi, suggests that when you invest your emotional energy in opposite-sex coworkers or friends--instead of focusing on your spouse--you are unfaithful to your marriage. With clear case examples, scenes from his own marriage, quizzes, and exercises, Neuman illustrates 11 "secrets" that couples can apply to insulate and protect their marriage. Each secret is defined in a separate chapter, along with a blueprint for bringing it home. For example, the secret of setting marital goals includes a step-by-step guide to creating a "marriage proposal," and the chapter about the impact of childhood in marriage offers readers probing questions about the legacy of their parents' marriage. However, Neuman's most controversial secret is his ability to skewer the myth of marriage as mutual independence. Instead, he urges couples to establish a "healthy co-dependence" in their marriage and to "protect their marriage against emotional infidelity by avoiding friendships with members of the opposite sex." Neuman's passion for increasing focus and commitment in marriage can be both persuasive and challenging, with his clear values and strategies requiring that readers reexamine their ideas about marriage. --Barbara Mackoff Read More

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    Whatâ??s holding you back from a great marriage?

    â??I donâ??t believe in â??okay,â?? â??decent,â?? or â??solidâ?? marriages. Iâ??m against them,â? says M. Gary Neuman. â??I believe only in great marriages, and that you should expect and reach for no less.â? In the last fifteen years, M. Gary Neuman, marital therapist and architect of the Sandcastles Divorce Therapy Program, has helped thousands of couples in crisis. Couples who fight. Whoâ??ve grown apart. Who are stuck in relationships that run more on routine and rancor than love and understanding. What heâ??s found is that, contrary to popular belief, the problem is usually not poor communication. Itâ??s the failure to put most of your focus into your marriage. Youâ??ve only got so much energy. Are you spending it by being emotionally unfaithful?

    Take a quick check: Do you send that funny e-mail to your friends at workâ??but not to your spouse? Do you chew over all the problems on the job so thoroughly with your colleagues that by the time you get home, you just donâ??t feel like going into it all over again? Do you get a secret thrill out of flirting with coworkersâ??thinking itâ??s safe because you know itâ??s not going any further? If so, youâ??re committing emotional infidelityâ??and youâ??re draining your marriage of the energy it needs to be great. Learning how to break this cycle is one of eleven secrets M. Gary Neuman shares in his provocative new book.

    Based on the ten-week program heâ??s developed in his successful couples counseling practice, the book offers guidelines that are often counterintuitive, even outrageous or shocking. But they work. Dare to limit contact with members of the opposite sex. Dare to need each other. Dare to put in writing the nitty-gritty realities of a marriage plan. Dare to put your marriage before your kids or job. Dare to make love in a whole new way. Dare to change your focus: make the commitment to focus on each of the eleven secrets (ten plus one bonus secret) for one week apiece and youâ??ll reap the rewards of a transformed marriage and a reconfirmed relationship.

    M. Gary Neumanâ??s program is guaranteed to challenge you and make you reexamine the myths holding you back from true happiness and satisfaction. It will change your marriage forever.

  • 0609810006
  • 9780609810002
  • Neuman Gary
  • 14 October 2002
  • Crown Publications
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 320
  • 1st Pbk. Ed
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