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Are you more distant from your spouse than you’d like to be? Do you sometimes enter big battles over what total mere administrative details? Do you or your spouse waste time “screensucking”—mindlessly viewing email or browsing the Web? Welcome to the club! Modern relationship is busy, distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing lists of things to do, superficial electronic cable connections, and interrupted occasions. Now Edward M. Hallowell, the bestselling co-author of the hugely popular Motivated to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction, groups up with his better half, Sue George Hallowell, a couples’ therapist, to clarify the subtle but dangerous toll today’s overstretched, undernurtured lifestyle assumes our most seductive relationship. The good news is that we now have straightforward and effective ways to maneuver your marriage from the harmful roadblocks created by the avalanche of occupied living. Just thirty minutes of effort each day for four weeks can bring back and repair communication and connection, resurrect long-buried enjoyment and love, and strengthen—even save—a married relationship.
We package with overload by tuning it out, however the repercussions on couples and dedication are serious. Without attention, there is absolutely no intimacy. And without intimacy, there is absolutely no connection. Just how do couples find their way back?
• Take notice of the natural collection of sustaining love: attention, time, connection, and play.
• Develop and nurture empathy—the fundamental building block to healthy communication.
• Carve out small occasions of uninterrupted attention for each other.
• Identify the stresses that our crazybusy lifestyles placed on love and relationship, and fight with tenderness and gratitude.
All of us who've been part of the couple for lots of years will recognize ourselves in this reassuring booklet. Filled with scripts, tips, specific communication and discussion techniques, and a detailed 30-day reconnection plan, as well as uplifting real-life testimonies from relationships which were brought back from the brink, Committed to Distraction will placed couples over a span of understanding, recovery, and love.
