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- ISBN-13: 9780985043407
- Publisher: Heathrow Books
- Publication date: 5/14/2012
- Pages: 192
About The Book
Are you winning at work but failing at home? Save your marriage before it's too late! Divorce is everywhere. Especially among high-achieving and success-driven professionals, who may leave a trail of broken relationships in their wake. In Change Your Life, Not Your Wife, psychologist Dr. Tony Ferretti and physician Dr. Peter Weiss demystify this seeming discord-highly successful individuals failing at home—stressing that the same character traits that drive career success can destroy families. Using true-to-life examples, they outline the perils of being achievement or power oriented in our intimate relationships. Eschewing blame, the authors note that usually both partners have played a role in arriving at a marital crossroads. Their good news is that relationships can get better. When couples are willing to work through their issues, dramatic improvement and healing are possible. In this book you will: discover the common personality traits behind the succeed at work/fail at home syndrome, understand how your current behavior in relationships has been shaped by your childhood experiences, assess the priorities in your life and the importance of shifting your focus from possessions to people, find simple assessments and exercises to help you evaluate your marriage, learn through a step-by-step process how to heal, nurture, and grow your marriage with proven and effective tools, and see how counseling works to help couples heal relationships, or to heal separately when relationships fail. Change Your Life, Not Your Wife can bring breakthrough changes to your marriage. This provocative message will challenge and encourage you as you get started on the road to improving your relationships. Start today!
About The Authors
Dr. Tony Ferretti is a licensed psychologist specializing in helping professionally successful clients with relationship problems. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of New York at Albany and received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi. For over twenty years Dr. Ferretti has shared his expertise in psychology to help others recognize the addictive nature of power, control, and "success." He's appeared on the Dr. Phil Show and hosted his own radio show, Talk to Tony, for nearly two years. Happily married for two decades with three children, he lives and practices in Central Florida.
Dr. Peter Weiss is a physician and healthcare executive with a passion for helping others to physical and emotional health. Dr. Weiss holds Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Medicine degrees from Washington University in St. Louis. Formerly in the practice of Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease, he currently he serves as President of Concert Health Plan and Florida Hospital Healthcare System, parts of the Adventist Health System located in Orlando, Florida. Married for over 20 years, he lives with his wife, Sharon, in Orlando, Florida.
My Thoughts:
Very interesting book.. My husband and I have been married for 29 years soon to be 30 and as I was reading this book I could see some similarities to my own marriage, we didn't have a book to follow though but it would have been nice to have a book like this at times. I feel that this is invaluable book to have especially if a couple is having some issues. Marriage is not an easy thing and whoever says it is is in denial. There can be money issues, child issues, sexual issues and anything that can be possibly thrown into a marriage. It can really play havoc on a relationship, but a couple needs to remember that a marriage is a partnership and what affects one spouse affects the other. I think Change Your Life and Not Your Wife is not necessarily written for the male but I think it can be read and utilized by both spouses.
This book has a few different case scenarios that describe several couples who one or the other has over achievement issues that carry over from their profession into their marriage and can cause all sorts of troubles, a marriage should not be run as managing a business would be. It is fine to be goal oriented or driven in your profession or job but we need to be careful not to become a tyrant at home and be careful what we say as little things can become a misunderstanding and if not worked out can be devasting in a marriage. We can not change the personality of our spouse nor can they change ours but we still need to be watchful of our words.
Sometimes a job becomes a priority in a marriage or children tend to become the priority and the spouses may feel left out but what the book tells us is that the marriage is a priority and we will have conflicts on occasion and if your spouse has hurt you or put something else before you, you need to be able to work things out and not get confrontational and we need to learn to forgive, are these easy things to do, of course not but in order to make a marriage work it is a give and take on both parts where even the tiniest thing can cause a wedge. I find it sad that in this day and age when I hear of people being married for only a few years and then divorce. I feel this book was very well written and should be shared as a couple if they are having issues in their marriage and even for those who aren't and may want to avoid those wedges that can creep into a relationship.
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