At middle age, has your marriage become routine, even boring? Do the two of you miss that warm, fuzzy feeling you had when dating or as newlyweds? Today’s guests Ariel and Shya Kane have been married 30 years but strangers still ask them if they’re on their honeymoon. Learn how to restore marital passion and a true loving partnership at any age through small, easy-to-accomplish initiatives like frequent mini-dates and a genuine interest throughout the day in what your spouse has to say.
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The Kanes are marriage experts. They’ve spent almost 30 years teaching people how to unlearn behavior patterns that damage themselves and their relationships. The couple focuses on how to get people to view their own behaviors with calm detachment and uncritical observation, leading them to a more compassionate view of themselves and their partners. The Kanes also stress how early relationships with parents influence future dating and note that both partners are fully responsible for the success of a relationship—as opposed to each partner being half responsible. These concepts will not be new ideas to readers, but they are presented in a clear, understandable, and even humorous form. And while most relationship-oriented self-help books cover similar ground, this one distinguishes itself from the pack.
ask me another By focusing on actual people’s stories, the Kanes illustrate how their advice works in action. The book includes links to audio-video sections that can be found online for readers curious to see the people whose stories are being told.
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The Greek philosopher Socrates is credited with saying, ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’ In
How to Have a Match Made in Heaven, Ariel and Shya Kane teach how to easily examine your life…how to be alive…how to be in the moment and how to create the life and relationships of your dreams!”
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A lifelong union is something to be cherished. “How to Have A Match Made in Heaven: A Transformational Approach to Dating, Relating, and Marriage” is a relationship guide from Ariel & Shya Kane as they share their own endeavors to finding something special and making it last, no matter where you are in relationship status. With honest and practical knowledge, “How to Have A Match Made in Heaven” is a strong pick for anyone seeking to find something that works or make what they have work for the long term.
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How to Have A Match Made in Heaven has been the ideal guide to putting together the pieces of the dating and relationship puzzle….Rather than fixing, curing or even healing relationship problems, the Kanes are advocates for transformation….They have witnessed it with the myriad clients and students with whom they have worked over the years. Several of these clients were gracious enough to allow transcripts of taped sessions to be used in the book….Concepts such as being right versus being alive, attention seeking, playing the victim role, fear of intimacy, flirting, seeking perfection, mindfulness, presence and, of course, and sex, are highlighted throughout this book that should be on every therapist’s bookshelf as a relationship primer. And this is the ideal book for anyone who simply wants to understand the dynamics of any relationship they may find themselves in.”
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A relationship that lasts a life time is what we all seek. “How to Have a Match Made in Heaven” is a guide to building these life long relationships and love, touching on the practical steps of finding those relationships and building them, and doing the maintenance to make all of them matter, and forges a life with one another for a life time. “How to Have a Match Made in Heaven” is a strong addition to general relationship collections, highly recommended.
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