A couple’s intimacy involves both an emotional openness and a physical closeness. Communication – a key to doing anything well – also allows us to learn, better understand, and execute the caring behaviors your partner needs or desires. Likewise, skillful, sincere, respectfuly communication provides your best chance for having your needs understood and met in […]

This book describes what happens to men and women, and especially to their relationships as couples, when they have their first baby. In an introductory chapter, we describe how our personal history led to the creation of the Becoming a Family Project, our study examining both stability and change in five major aspects of a […]

Moving into parenthood is typically a time of great job and excitement, but it also brings fatigue, stress, and conflict. This guide offers advice on how to protect and preserve your marriage and take care of yourselves as you become parents. (Author abstract)

The purpose of Relationship Enhancement programs is to teach couples and other family members specific attitudes, strategies, and skills for navigating life transitions and constructively dealing with difficulties which threaten the quality of relationships. (A curriculum resource)

Families Will Learn: Practical, lifelong skills to strengthen, support and empower your family;Tools to manage your family in healthy ways;Steps to resolve conflict; Skills to solve problems; Ways to encourage and support one another; Steps for effective discipline; How to bring out the best in each other and build on what already works;Alternatives to physical […]

This package features special issues from Journal of Marriage and Family and Family Relations and the publication Vision 2004: What is the Future of Marriage? The November 2004 JMF, A Symposium on Marriage and Its Future, is comprised of articles from such researchers as Andrew Cherlin, Paul Amato, and Judith Seltzer. The October 2004 FR, […]