Couple Fits: How to Live With the Person You Love

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Summary: very helpful and interesting book
Review: The book is extremely interesting and helpful. It provides an easy-to-follow means to better relationships in an entertaining fashion.

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Summary: A Readable Guide to Couple Relationships
Review: This book nicely balances practical suggestions with a theoretical foundation. The authors help the reader to identify the reasons for a couple's interactions, and offers practical ideas on how to work on issues between partners.

They describe three attachment styles--secure, avoidant, and ambivalent and during the course of the book help the reader to move to a more meaningful relationship with his or her partner.

Though they are clearly strongly influenced by John Bowlby's attachment theory, they don't hide behind jargon. It is a very pleasant read! I especially liked the "pearls" sprinkled throughout the book.

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Summary: Couple Fits
Review: Very comprehensive overview on how relationship dynamics operate; provides a framework to demonstrate how different characters can conflict under everyday life. Clear explanations of the 3 major behavioural types & the book proceeds to identify all the different permutations that exists.
It works through various case studies under each combination & provides useful tips on how to function 'better' within a long term relationship, yet maintaining your own ethos.
This was a very good comfort read for me