Trading Places: The Best Move You'll Ever Make In Your Marriage

Always treading on your spouse's toes? Try walking in your partner's shoes! Sharing a 3-step process designed to build empathy, the Parrotts offer personal anecdotes and insightful advice to help you and your spouse become better friends, reduce critical comments, eliminate nagging, short-circuit conflict, give and receive grace, and more. Includes discussion questions. Hardcover.

Couples who are stepping on each other’s toes should try walking in each other’s shoes. Trading Places reduces conflict, deepens your commitment, and helps you live as better friends and lovers. Mutual empathy—the revolutionary tool for instantly improving a relationship—can be learned and practiced, say the authors of this groundbreaking book. Their guidance will transform your marriage.

According to clinical psychologist Les Parrott and his wife, Leslie, a marriage and family therapist, mutual empathy is the key to improving a relationship. The good news, say the couple, is that this ability can be learned, practiced, and acted upon immediately. The Parrotts deliver their message in three sections, discussing first the essential ingredients of empathy and next the rewards of empathic efforts. Finally, they recommend using the online eHarmony Marriage Profile to take a deeper look at one's relationship. The most helpful advice is to be honest and forthcoming in expressing feelings and needs. Recommended for all libraries.

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Reviewed by becky (IL), August 14, 2009

I absolutely loved and enjoyed this book. There is not one thing I would say that I disliked about it at all! I thought that the arguments in my marriage were always "his" fault, but this book taught me about empathy and has cascaded to my husband as well - I recommend this to anyone, especially those who desperatly have a want to share with this husband what it feels like to be "you" and the emotions you feel when you react or talk to each other verbally.

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