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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | Crafts & Hobbies | Home » » » The 7 Stages of Marriage | | | | | | | Description: | | Understand your relationship with this breakthrough guide where you'll learn about the seven natural stages of marriage. Discover the actions you need to take at each step to ensure a healthy, growing bond. Rich with specific advice, quizzes, and exercises, and based in part on the Reader's Digest Marriage in America Survey or 1,001 marriage people, this it the one book you need for a truly fulfilling marriage, no matter how long you've been together, no matter how challenging or happy your marriage is today. | | | Features: | |
• Laughter, Intimacy and Passion: Today, Tomorrow, Forever
• Understand your relationship with this breakthrough guide where you'll learn about the seven natural stages of marriage.
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Rita M. DeMaria | | Hardcover:
| 352 pages | | Publisher:
| Readers Digest | | Publication Date:
| December 28, 2006 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0762107251 | | Package Length:
| 9.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.3 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.9 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 6 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 A good idea done wrongJan 09, 2009
Whilst the idea of the book is enticing, the quality of writing is not so.
It is very cliched and stereotypical, bases statements, conclusions and ideas off of mainstream thinking, concepts and deeply westernized ideology of marriage and commitment and the life journey. It seems to be written by and for the older 40+ bunch.
The main ideas I gleaned from this book could have been summed up in a few pages. There was no reason to spin this out into the voluminous size it is, with speculation, personal anecdotes, wishy-washy commentary, a rose-tinted glasses and very pro-legalized-contractual view of marriage. The quiz to check what stage a couple is in, felt alienating, as we and our other couple friends agreed we really couldn't find ourselves in the quiz's.
This book doesn't seem to be written by people in touch with today's modern society.
It was like reading a book from my parents or grandparents era.
A very conservative, rigid view of marriage and life.
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Love this book.May 12, 2007
Easy read, filled with lots of useful information. Will recommend to to any married couple.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Readable, delightful, accurate, informative and much moreMar 17, 2007
This is a very powerful book for anyone contemplating marriage or thinking about the marriage in which they find themselves. It is a forthwright look at what marriage means, what is really going to happen the various stages in which marriages go through. To name just two, the wedded bliss of the first few months or hopefully years is wonderful. But it's quite different than the child rearing years are taking your (and her) time, money, emotions and more.
Note that this is not a book for those who have already decided on a divorce. If one party to the marriage has already decided it is over, well it takes two to make a marriage, only one to break it apart. As the book says, it is not a relationship repair book, it's a book that will instead tell you about relationships and how they change over time.
There's a neat quiz to tell you what stage your relationship is in. I've just got to mention the first question and one of it's four answers:
'If our rlationship were an object, it would be a:'
And answer d is:
'video game - push the button, a new battle starts.'
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
7 stages a joy to read!Mar 12, 2007
This book is not rocket science, but does put the stages of marriage back into perspective. It was a joy to read ad share with my spouse!
18 of 19 found the following review helpful:
Nothing short of amazingFeb 09, 2007
This is an extraordinary book. The authors have done a fantastic job of synthesizing material from research and thought leaders in the marriage movement and put it into a readable, encouraging and hopeful textbook that is chock full of useful information and exercises for improving your marriage.
In addition to descriptions of the 7 stages, the book either gives you ways to maintain the good (as in the first stage of passion) or getting through the not-so-good phase (as in the second stage when you wake up and realize that your marriage is not all magic all the time). You can't rush though this book though, since there's so much helpful information on each page. Nice stories, too, of couples who were interviewed for the project.
I'd recommend this book to couples who are either getting married, are married, or are considering divorce. It should be read many times over.
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