Married to Distraction

How to Restore Intimacy and Strengthen Your Partnership in an Age of Interruption

By Edward M. Hallowell, Melissa Orlov, Sue Hallowell | Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

About the book

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.

Editions of Married to Distraction

Hardcover
ISBN 9780345507990
Paperback
ISBN 9780345508003
EBook
ISBN 9780345519313
AudioStreaming
ISBN 9780307713155
AudioStreaming
ISBN 9780307713131
AudioDisc
ISBN 9780307713148
AudioDisc
ISBN 9780307712998

Read an Excerpt

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Married to Distraction about?

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.

What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Married to Distraction?

Health, Relationships and Personal development > Family and health > Relationships and families: advice, topics and issues > Dating, relationships, living together and marriage: advice, topics and issues

Where can I read a sample of Married to Distraction?

You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780345507990

Who is/are the Author/s of the book Married to Distraction?

Edward M. Hallowell, Melissa Orlov, Sue Hallowell

Who is the Publisher of the book Married to Distraction?

Random House Publishing Group

What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?

Married to Distraction is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780345507990) and paperback(ISBN 9780345508003) and ebook(ISBN 9780345519313) and audiostreaming(ISBN 9780307713155) and audiostreaming(ISBN 9780307713131) and audiodisc(ISBN 9780307713148) and audiodisc(ISBN 9780307712998)

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