Married to Distraction by Edward M Hallowell
Are you more distant from your spouse than you'd like to be? Do you or your spouse waste time mindlessly viewing email or surfing the Web? Welcome to the club Modern marriage is busy, distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing lists of things to do, superficial electronic connections, and interrupted moments. The good news is that there are straightforward and effective ways to restore communication and connection, resurrect happiness and romance, and strengthen--even save--a marriage. - Observe the natural sequence of sustaining love: attention, time, connection, and play.- Develop and nurture empathy--the essential building block to healthy communication.
- Carve out small moments of uninterrupted attention for each other.
- Identify the pressures that our crazybusy lifestyles put on love and marriage, and fight back with tenderness and appreciation. Complete with scripts, tips, communication techniques, and a detailed 30-day reconnection plan, as well as inspiring real-life stories, Married to Distraction will set couples on a course of understanding, healing, and love.
Melissa Orlov is a marriage counselor and one of the foremost authorities on the effects of ADHD on marriages. Since 2007, she has been writing and speaking about the subject, and she has been researching it since 2005. She lectures about how ADHD affects relationships to couples, therapists, and counselors, blogs for Psychology Today, and published the Your Relationships section for ADDitude Magazine from 2008 to 2014. She also offers private consultations to couples who want to better their ADHD-affected relationships, as effectively as a popular couples seminar (over the phone) on how to live well in an ADHD-affected relationship. She is the author of The ADHD Impact on Marriage, which was named ForeWord Reviews' Best Psychological Book of 2010.
It has been translated into several languages, including Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese. Her most recent book, coauthored with Nancie Kohlenberger, The Couple's Guide to Living with ADHD, earned three book prizes. Melissa has been interviewed by outlets as diverse as the New York Times, CNN, and the American Psychological Association's Monitor on Psychology on the topic of ADHD and marriage. Melissa worked in marketing, communications, and research before deciding to pursue her dream of helping couples live better lives with ADHD.
Her hobbies include road riding, singing, and playing the cello. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Phillips Exeter Academy. Orlov and her husband of 26 years live just outside of Boston.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780345508003 |
| ISBN 10 | 0345508009 |
| Title | Married to Distraction |
| Author | Edward M Hallowell |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2011-02-08 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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