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How to Be Happy Partners: Working it out Together Kindle Edition

by Tina Tessina (Author), Riley Smith (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
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Written by the authors of How to Be a Couple and Still Be Free, this book is a handbook for couples who need tools to be happy in their relationships. It’s a handbook on how to achieve mutual happiness, through cooperative negotiation and communication. Couples are led through a step-by-step process whereby each one learns how to take care of what he or she wants and care for a partner’s happiness at the same time.
The clear and concise instructions and guidelines teach couples the skills they need to create a mutually supportive partnership allowing each individual to be satisfied in their relationship. It is based on The Negotiation Tree, an ingenious tool that can help any couple turn a struggle or fight into a cooperative problem-solving session.
The book is designed especially for:
* People who seek a model for equal partnership.
* Couples who want to transform struggle into teamwork.
* Couples who are married, cohabiting, or dating.
* Couples who are in a traditional or alternative relationship.
How to Be Happy Partners is the perfect tool for designing and creating a relationship unique to your individual personalities and situation. With it, any couple can learn to work together to create a loving, sustainable, healthy, and happy partnership that both will treasure.
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About the Author

Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D. is a licensed psychotherapist in S. California since 1978 with over 35 years' experience in counseling individuals and couples and author of 14 books in 17 languages, including It Ends With You; Money, Sex and Kids, Dr. Romance's Guide to Dating in the Digital Age; The Ten Smartest Decisions a Woman Can Make After Forty; Love Styles and The Real 13th Step. She writes the "Dr. Romance" blog, and the "Happiness Tips from Tina" email newsletter. Online, she's known as "Dr. Romance" appears frequently on radio, TV, video and podcasts http: //www.tinatessina.com Dr. Romance Blog: http: //drromance.typepad.com Twitter.com/tinatessina Facebook.com/TinaTessina Facebook.com/TheReal13thStep Riley K. Smith, M.A., is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has been helping couples and individuals create satisfying relationships since 1974. He supervises and trains therapists in addition to his psychotherapy practice. He is co-author of How to Be a Couple and Still Be Free, True Partners, and Equal Partners

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01G60V8DA
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Muffinhaven Press; 2nd edition (May 23, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 23, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 714 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 231 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1530583594
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

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Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D. (www.tinatessina.com) is a licensed psychotherapist in S. California since 1978 with over 40 years’ experience in counseling individuals and couples and author of 15 books in 17 languages, including Dr. Romance’s Guide to Finding Love Today; It Ends With You: Grow Up and Out of Dysfunction; The Ten Smartest Decisions a Woman Can Make After Forty; Love Styles: How to Celebrate Your Differences, The Real 13th Step , How to Be Happy Partners: Working it Out Together and How to Be a Couple and Still Be Free. She writes the “Dr. Romance” blog (drromance.typepad.com), and the “Happiness Tips from Tina” email newsletter. Online, she’s known as “Dr. Romance” Dr. Tessina appears frequently on radio, TV, video and podcasts. She tweets @tinatessina

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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Kare Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars Discover Exactly How Your Partnership Can Enrich Rather Than Constrict Your Life
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2019
I can see why the author, Tina Tessina, was successful as a couples counselor for so many years as her actionable approach in this book is based on couples and other kinds of partners learning exactly how to optimize the ways they can support each other while still remaining true to their own values and sources of joy. In so doing she reflects, in her own approach, the power that Carol Dweck famously researched and advocated to grow a richer life for yourself and with others – adopting a “growth mindset. As well, Tessina’s approach enables people in partnerships to feel, not conscricted but more enriched by the life they are living together. That’s why this book spurred me as reader find it a credible, helpful and upbeat read.
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anotherview
3.0 out of 5 stars Not well written, writer repeats herself
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2019
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Perhaps the repetition is to reinforce concepts but I found it tedious. Some good info in here though if you can sift through. Easy read. Will apply what I learn.
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Barbara Davis-Thompson, LCSW
4.0 out of 5 stars Relational Maturity Can be Yours
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2017
Tessina’s book Creating Happy Partnership is a must-have resource to turn to when couples disagree, have distorted expectations of one another, enter into power struggles, indeed, rescue a partner instead of asking for accountability, and endure other normal to highly stressed conflictual, relational situations.

Picture the scene below:

June: I feel so neglected and hurt because you spend so much time away from me and when you are home, you plunk yourself in front of the TV and pay no attention to me.

Fred: What are you upset about? I bring home the bacon. I support this family.

June: I give up. All I want is more time with you because I miss you.

Fred: I expect to come home to a peaceful space…not have you complaining all the time.

June: All the time? That’s it. I’m done!

Imagine door slamming, icy silence over the next days, and each person holding inner resentments that very possibly will come out sideways in passive-aggressive behavior. Ouch!

If only June and Fred had Tessina’s book! She presents a model of how to deal with conflict that can create sustainable, happy partnerships for a life time. Tessina writes about the five qualities that make for happy partners. She focuses on co-operative problem-solving and presents a Negotiation Tree that allows couples the ability to work out happy solutions to everyday to severe problems that inevitably show up during the life time of a long-term relationship.

Who should read this book? Ideally, it should be mandatory reading before forming adult relationships! Understanding and living the communication and negotiation skills in Tessina’s book before entering partnerships would give the ability to have high quality, really satisfying relationships - and leave behind much unhappiness, power plays, and unsatisfying compromises that most couples resort to because they can’t negotiate their differences without shredding each other! In short, the book should be on everyone’s bed stand or nearby book shelf for ready reference to work out happy solutions to couple problems with the result there will be more time to love and enjoy each other that can only spiral upward into continually satisfying levels of goodwill, martial satisfaction and enjoyment!
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Isadora Alman
4.0 out of 5 stars How To Be Happy Partners is a wonderful aid for struggling couples
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2016
Tessina and Smith's newest book "How To Be Happy Partners: Working It Out Together" contains more wisdom in its 8 page introduction than most self-help books on the market do between all their pages. Imagine how much practical good stuff is contained beyond the introduction in the rest of this book. Up until now my favorite recommended reading for struggling couples has been Tessina and Smith's "How To Be A Couple And Still Be Free". It's still a favorite AND this one goes it one better. I love it.
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Morton Chalfy
4.0 out of 5 stars This works!
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2017
Chock full of good ideas, practical suggestions and step by step actions. If you're willing to work at it this is a great resource for happy coupling.
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