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The Couple's Workbook

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$14.19 $19.99 In stock

Category: Workbooks & Guided Journals

Homework to help love last

Here is a workbook containing the very best exercises that any couple can undertake to help their relationship function optimally, exercises to foster understanding, patience, forgiveness, humour and resilience in the face of the many hurdles that invariably arise when you try to live with someone else for the long term.

Couples are guided to have particular conversations, analyse their feelings, explain parts of themselves to one another and undertake rituals that clear the air and help recover hope and passion. The goal is always to unblock channels of feeling and improve communication. Not least, doing exercises together is – at points – simply a lot of fun.

The notion of exercising is well understood in many areas; we should grant that it applies equally to love. No one can be intuitively good at relationships. We all need to do some homework to become the best partners and couples we can be.

Chapters include:

  • What We Should Learn From One Another
  • The Secret Lives of Other Couples
  • A Trust Check-Up
  • How We Like to Be Loved
  • Projecting Emotions
  • A Forgiveness Ritual
  • Hidden Efforts
  • How to Argue
  • Change is Possible
  • Talking About Sex

Hardback book | 192 pages | 222mm x 155mm 

Customer Reviews (4.8 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Christopher A. ★★★★★

The understanding and patience exercises in this book got us talking about stuff we'd been avoiding for years, and it never felt like a chore. We now do one every Sunday with coffee, and it's honestly the best hour of our week.

Miles ★★★★★

My partner and I started doing one exercise a week and the understanding section has already shifted how we talk through disagreements. It's structured enough to keep us on track but not so rigid that it feels like therapy homework.

Mia V. ★★★★★

We grabbed this on a whim before a long road trip and ended up doing two exercises at rest stops. The patience chapter hit harder than I expected, mostly because it made us actually pause instead of talking over each other.