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The High-Conflict Couple

A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy, and Validation

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The High-Conflict Couple

By: Alan E. Fruzzetti PhD
Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels
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You hear and read a lot about ways to improve your relationship. But if you've tried these without much success, you're not alone. Many highly reactive couples - pairs that are quick to argue, anger, and blame - need more than just the run-of-the-mill relationship advice to solve their problems in love. When destructive emotions are at the heart of problems in your relationship, no amount of effective communication or intimacy building will fix what ails it. If you're part of a high-conflict couple, you need to get control of your emotions first, to stop making things worse, and only then work on building a better relationship.

The High-Conflict Couple adapts the powerful techniques of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) into skills you can use to tame out-of-control emotions that flare up in your relationship. Using mindfulness and distress tolerance techniques, you'll learn how to deescalate angry situations before they have a chance to explode into destructive fights. You'll discover ways to manage problems with negotiation, not conflict, and to find true acceptance and closeness with the person you love the most.

©2006 Alan E. Fruzzetti (P)2016 Tantor Relationships Marriage & Long-Term Partnerships Thought-Provoking Marriage Help

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"Fruzzetti's focused use of the specialized dialectical behavior therapy makes his book unique in the couples-therapy field and recommends it for larger public libraries." ( Library Journal)
Practical Relationship Strategies • Valuable Communication Insights • Wonderful Narrator • Helpful Conflict Resolution

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practical but also deep and thought provoking.
I read as a clinician in a DBT skills group. it’s prob better for the clinician then a recommendation to a patient. enjoy.

practical and deep

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To the audiobook. Despite the narration, the content is worth the read if you are seeking advice on how to navigate a 'high conflict' relationship. The authors provide insights into the various dynamics at play in such relationships and offer practical strategies for improving communication and resolving conflict. Additionally, the book offers guidance on how to cope with and self-regulate in the midst of high conflict situations. Overall, despite the dry narration, the book offers valuable insights and strategies for anyone struggling with communication, letting go of past, resentment, loving unconditionally, and so much more.

Good advice, good book, narrator will put you😴

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Recommended to anyone not just couples with problems. I'll listen to it again. Great purchase!

Loved it

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This book is wonderful! It helps reveal the source of the problems within relationships, but then goes on to provide steps to take and practice to achieve the closeness we desire with each other. Highly recommended!

Lots of practical practice exercises

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It is helping me change my marriage and myself. Love this book. Recommend it to anyone going through a difficult time in relationship. Wonderful narrator. Thank you.

Truly helpful amazing book for a struggling couple

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