Linda Bloom
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""All you need is love" and "Marriage is a 50-50 proposition" are ideas many of us have absorbed. The advice we've gotten from friends, family, and clergy and the stories in movies, music, and fiction feed these notions. (See the blockbuster book and movie Love Story for Myth 7: Love Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry.) Ideas about love banishing loneliness or making life perfect are also, undeniably, appealing. Renowned, and married, therapists...
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Therapists Charlie and Linda Bloom have been married more than thirty-five years. Over a two-year period, they interviewed twenty-seven couples who had been together for an average of thirty years and seemed as happy as newlyweds. Were they just lucky? The Blooms found that these couples had faced real challenges - difficulties with children and stepchildren, war wounds, infidelity, and financial ruin. They also found that with loving dialogue and...
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Now more than ever, couples need guidance for navigating conflict wisely and skillfully. Drawing on insights from their work with couples since 1975, the Blooms offer practical tools and strategies that apply to all relationships. “An End to Arguing” convincingly shows how destructive conflicts can be avoided and provides stimulus for individual and interpersonal growth. They use compelling examples from their clinical work and their own fifty-year...