Connect to Love: The Keys to Transforming Your Relationship

by M. Gary Neuman

Overview

In their own voices, women show how to strengthen your relationship-with surprising revelations from New York Times bestselling author Gary Neuman

This breakthrough book, based on the voices of real women from all walks of life and groundbreaking new research, shows couples how to grow stronger by understanding what women need from a romantic relationship. In Connect to Love, family counselor and relationships expert M.Gary Neuman explores the problems that women face in their marriages or relationships that might make them dissatisfied with their partners-or willing to stray. Neuman reveals the startling discoveries he made through his in-depth new research of more than five hundred women. When it comes to sexual intimacy, for instance, wives who are satisfied with their marriages have sex more than twice as frequently than those who are dissatisfied.

• Includes a step-by-step two-week plan to improve your relationship
• Filled with dramatic personal stories and surprising findings on sex, emotional issues, intimacy, communication, and more
• From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Truth about Cheating
• Neuman has been a frequent guest on Oprah, Today, and other major TV shows
• Written for couples while addressing both female and male issues

Written with a compassionate and down-to-earth tone, Connect to Love will open your eyes to see relationships in a new way while empowering yourself and your partner for change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470651285
Publisher:	Trade Paper Press
Publication date:	12/03/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	441 KB

About the Author

M. Gary Neuman is a licensed family counselor and rabbi.¿He¿is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Truth about Cheating, In Good Times and Bad, Emotional Infidelity: How to Affair-Proof Your Marriage and 10 Other Secrets to a Great Relationship, and Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way. He has been a frequent guest on Oprah and the Today show and has appeared on Good Morning America, The View, Dateline NBC, NBC Nightly News, and CBS Weekend News. Neuman and his work have been covered in Time, People, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Parents, and Parenting magazines as well as the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Miami Herald. For more information, visit the author's website at www.mgaryneuman.com.

Table of Contents

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part One: Connecting to What Women Want.

1. The Connect to Love Questionnaire.

2. Veronica’s Story: It’s Complicated.

3. Enjoy Your Time Together.

4. Appreciation = Value.

5. Understanding Does Wonders.

6. Women and Sex.

Part Two: Connecting to Love.

7. Turn Back Time, Just Have Fun.

8. The Two-Week Connect to Love Program.

9. Always Be Honest.

Part Three: Connecting to Love for Good.

10. How to Make Real Changes That Last.

11. How Women Can Communicate More Openly.

12. How Men Can Choose to Have a Great Relationship.

Epilogue: Make Your Partner Feel Like Your Top Priority.

Appendix A. Therapy Can Make a Difference.

Appendix B. Keeping Your Relationship Safe at Work.

Appendix C. Women Who Stray.

Index.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"With Connect to Love, M. Gary Neuman provides a clear analysis of the connection between husbands and wives, debunking many popular myths along the way. Drawing on the voices of real women, the book shows how couples can improve their relationships starting now." —-Trina Dolenz, author of Retool Your Relationship

Editorial Reviews

Neuman, a rabbi and licensed psychotherapist (The Truth about Cheating) offers an enjoyable guide full of helpful tips for couples to get their relationship back on track. Careers, child-rearing, and economic uncertainty take their toll on marital passions, but Neuman wants to guide husband and wife back to the honeymoon period, and with clever ideas like "Turn Back Time Night," where old haunts from their early dates are revisited, he should have some success (critically, these nights call for zero talk of the big trifecta of troubles: work; money; kids). The author doesn’t limit his advice on comportment to retro date nights, however, and delves into the touchy topic of marital sex with great alacrity. In fact the majority of his book tackles sexuality, and Neuman doesn’t mince words. He even confides that both "husbands and wives complain that their partner doesn’t come prepared for sex with a cleanliness quotient that works for both of them. There is nothing wrong with asking for or being asked to clean up before sex." Anyone armed with this brave book—and a good shower—should be able to bring the mojo back to the marriage. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

"With Connect to Love, M. Gary Neuman provides a clear analysis of the connection between husbands and wives, debunking many popular myths along the way. Drawing on the voices of real women, the book shows how couples can improve their relationships starting now." ---Trina Dolenz, author of Retool Your Relationship

From the Publisher

A rabbi/marriage counselor polled more than 500 married women to learn how many had had sexual affairs, why they did, how they handled it, and how their husbands could have prevented it. Women who strayed (39 percent of respondents!) were more unfulfilled emotionally and sexually, and more angry with their spouses than non-cheaters. With all its questionnaires and statistics, the book feels uneven. But the surprising survey results are clear enough, and the message important: Many women stray for reasons husbands can prevent by being loving, collaborative, honest, and available. Along with Cassandra Campbell’s spot-on performance of the respondents’ statements, Danny Campbell’s attentive reading is a perfect fit for this eye-opening account of what makes women unhappy in their marriages. T.W. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

DECEMBER 2011 - AudioFile