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Everybody fights : so why not get better at it? / Kim and Penn Holderness with Christopher Edmonston.

by Holderness, Kim, 1976-

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W Publishing Group, 2021.

646.7820922 H727e

Holderness, Kim, 1976- -- Marriage.

Holderness, Penn, 1974- -- Marriage.

Married people -- Psychology -- Biography.

Communication in marriage.

9780785235729 (hc.)

xx, 230 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.

"For the past five years, we have worked together out of our home. We talk to each other easily seven hours a day. Six of those hours are debates about what rhymes best with booty or how to get a camera angle that doesn't take Penn's chin from a double to a triple, but the last hour of our day is us talking about our relationship. As the whole world has learned, disagreements are inevitable when you spend that much time with someone, and if we had a knock-down, drag-out fight every time we saw things differently, we would never accomplish anything... This book is for those of you who are married and want to stay that way. It's for couples who just aren't feeling heard by their partners, who can't break our of their bad patterns of communication. This book gives you strategies that have made our marriage stronger over the years, and we hope they do the same for yours. Why should you listen to us? After all, most books about improving your marriage are written by someone who has a bunch of letters after their name or a lab named after them. We don't have secondary degrees. We're not performing rigorous double-blind studies on the mating habits of rats; we are the rats. We're not decked out in lab coats testing hypotheses; we're in the maze looking at each other like, "I told you we should have gone left." We're going to share what we've learned from the times we've felt helplessly stuck in the maze, and then we'll share the strategies we've discovered that have helped us get out of the darn thing time and again so we can enjoy our lives and each other...Yes, it takes vigilance and willingness to try and try again, but loving your person should never be a chore... Marriage is work. But keeping up on the maintenance is worth it."--Jacket.

Holderness, Penn, 1974-

Edmonston, Christopher.

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