Description: This follow-up to the blockbuster Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work provides a powerful practical program for analyzing all of the important relationships in your life and making the repairs that will lead to stronger emotional bonds and a happier, healthier life. Gottman bases his program on his twenty years of groundbreaking research into the key elements that make relationships either satisfying and healthy or unfulfilling and negative. He emphasizes the importance of what he calls emotional connection and introduces the powerful new concept of the emotional "bid", which Gottman describes as the fundamental unit of emotional connection. The book describes how we can make or break relationships by the way we bid for emotional connection and respond to other people's bids for the same. Gottman's program provides empowering tools for evaluating how effectively or not you bid for emotional connection, and also for evaluating how the others in your life bid for connection. He lays out the simple, practical steps for mastering the bidding process and connecting much more effectively, with your spouse, children, siblings, friends, and co-workers.

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