9 Books Every Couple Should Read Together [To Improve Their Relationship]
There is always something that can be done to improve our relationships. Whether that is with your partner, family, or friends, this collection of books will provide a sound guide, and tips to put into practice, to ensure we are getting the best out of ourselves, and others. So, forget the intimidating, probing nature of traditional relationship-help practices, these books provide a fantastic resource to take all your relationships to the next level.
1. Relationships
The School Of Life
Few things promise us greater happiness than our relationships – yet few things more reliably deliver misery and frustration. Our error is to suppose that we are born knowing how to love and that managing a relationship might, therefore, be intuitive and easy.
This book starts from a different premise: that love is a skill to be learned, rather than just an emotion to be felt. It calmly and charmingly takes us around the key issues of relationships, from arguments to sex, forgiveness to communication, making sure that success in love needs never again be just a matter of luck.
Kindle: $11.99
Hardcover: $26.75
Relationships
2. Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connection
Barrie Davenport
Feel disconnected from your spouse or partner? Struggle to keep your relationship fresh? Worried that everything will end in heartbreak?It’s easy to fall in love. The challenging part is keeping that spark alive while you and your partner deal with “the real world.”
Your relationship can often seem less urgent than the day-to-day emergencies that you deal with — your job, finances, children, and that to-do list full of chores. They all demand your immediate attention. So how do you find the time to nurture your love and intimacy?
What often gets lost in the shuffle is the love you share with your partner. Maybe you’ve neglected some of the positive habits you adopted when you were dating to win over your love partner. Or perhaps all of your conversations seem to end in arguments? Or worse, you might occasionally wonder if your relationship is even worth salvaging. The Solution: Build Mindful Relationship Habits
Kindle: $3.99
Paperback: $21.93
Mindful Relationship Habits
3. Rebuilding: When Your Relationship Ends
Bruce Fisher, Robert Alberti
If you are going through a painful breakup or divorce, you may feel like the life you once knew is crashing down around you. You need help to gather the pieces and rebuild yourself from the ground up. Rebuilding features Bruce Fisher’s divorce process rebuilding blocks, a proven-effective, nineteen-step process for putting one’s life back together after divorce.
Now the most widely-used approach to divorce recovery, the rebuilding model makes the process healthier and less traumatic for those who are divorcing or divorced – and their children. Over two decades of research and practice are combined with feedback from hundreds of thousands of men and women who have used the book on their own, or in one of thousands of Fisher divorce recovery seminars worldwide.
This book also includes Fisher’s detailed Healing Separation model – the first of its kind to offer couples a healing alternative to the usual slide from separation to divorce. This fourth edition, revised with the assistance of psychologist and marriage and family therapist Robert Alberti, continues Bruce’s tradition of straight-to-the-heart response to the needs of his clients and readers.
If you’ve been struggling to rebuild your life after a divorce, this book offers just the right balance of shoulder-to-cry-on and kick-in-the-pants self-help!
Kindle: $14.57
Paperback: $31.11
Rebuilding: When Your Relationship Ends
4. Hold Me Tight: Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships
Sue Johnson
Developed by Dr Sue Johnson over 20 years ago and practiced all over the world, this book has been heralded by Time magazine and the New York Times as the couple therapy with the highest rate of success. Couples who use this book see a 75% success rate. The therapy program focuses on the emotional connection of every relationship by de-escalating conflict, creating a safe emotional connection, and strengthening bonds between partners.
In this book, pioneer Dr Sue Johnson presents her highly effective therapy model to the general public for the first time. Through case studies from her practice, illuminating advice and practical exercises, couples will learn how to nurture their relationships and ensure a lifetime of love.
Kindle: $15.99
Paperback: $26.25
Hold Me Tight
5. Relationship Books: 5 Manuscripts – Couples Communication, Anxiety in Relationships, Codependent Relationships, Narcissistic Relationship, Jealousy Self Help
Levine Tatkin
This boxset includes the most powerful collection of books that will help you improve your relationships. This book will help you learn to deal with situations more constructively and positively.
The tips given here will help in reviving the love between a couple while restoring love and respect for each other.
Kindle: $9.99
Paperback: $50.89
Relationship Books
6. Relationship Rescue: A Seven-Step Strategy for Reconnecting with Your Partner
Phillip C McGraw
With Life Strategies, Phil McGraw helped hundreds of thousands of people take responsibility for their own actions and break free from self-destructive habits and situations. Now he turns his honest, unflinching eye toward relationships, diagnosing them, repairing them, and maintaining them.
This hands-on book is for people who realize their relationship is in trouble, but who don’t want to give up on it. In addition, it includes questionnaires, profiles, and checklists that will keep readers focused and aware of their feelings.
Phil McGraw has already established himself as someone whom readers can turn to for direct, tell-it-like-it-is help in their own lives. Now he offers readers the chance for further happiness through meaningful, fulfilling relationships that work. Dr. McGraw helps get relationships back on track with a controversial explosion of the myths of conventional relationship thinking and clear action-oriented steps for reconnecting partners.
Kindle: $14.99
Paperback: $17.12
Hardcover: $21.71
Relationship Rescue
7. Jealousy Cure
Leahy Robert
We’ve all heard tales of the overly jealous spouse or significant other. Maybe we’ve even been that jealous person, though we may not want to admit it. It’s hard to imagine anyone sailing through life without either having feelings of jealousy or being the target of someone’s jealousy. But what if jealousy isn’t just a neurotic weakness? What if it signals that your relationship matters to you? In short, what if jealousy serves a purpose?
In The Jealousy Cure, renowned psychologist Robert L. Leahy takes a more nuanced approach to tackle feelings of jealousy. In this compelling book, you’ll uncover the evolutionary origins of jealousy, and how and why it’s served to help us as a species. You’ll also learn practices based in emotional schema theory, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and mindfulness to help you overcome the shame jealousy can bring, improve communication with your partner, and ultimately make room for jealousy while also making your relationship more meaningful. You will learn that confronting jealousy in your relationship does not have to be a catastrophe, but can redirect you and your partner to build more trust, acceptance, and connection.
We often feel jealous because we fear losing the things or people that matter to us the most. With this insightful guide, you’ll discover how jealousy can both help and hurt your relationship, and learn proven-effective skills to keep jealousy in its place.
Kindle: $13.03
Paperback: $27.35
Jealousy Cure
8. The Relationship Cure: A 5 Step Guide to Strengthening Your Marriage, Family, and Friendships
John M Gottman
From the country’s foremost relationship expert and New York Times bestselling author Dr. John M. Gottman comes a powerful, simple five-step program, based on twenty years of innovative research, for greatly improving all of the relationships in your life, with spouses and lovers, children, siblings, and even your colleagues at work. Gottman provides the tools you need to make your relationships thrive.
Paperback: $25.94
The Relationship Cure
9. Relationship Breakthrough
Cloe Madanes
Everyone faces the challenges of making relationships work. Whether with spouses, family members, friends, lovers, or colleagues, relationships have the power to make one feel happy, frustrated, or miserable.
In Relationship Breakthrough, Cloe Madanes, an expert in creating healing, empowering relationships-gives readers vital tools to transform their relationships and their lives. Madanes’s cutting-edge methods produce real results and create rewarding, sustainable relationships.
Using simple, step-by-step exercises and drawing on the examples of clients who have benefited from this technique, Relationship Breakthrough teaches readers how to overcome life’s inevitable losses, resolve long-standing family conflicts, synchronize their needs with those of others and create outstanding relationships in every area of their lives.
Kindle: $21.99
Paperback: $33.95
Hardcover: $96.95
Relationship Breakthrough
This collection of relationship-help books discusses a number of different topics, which cover a broad range of common issues many of us have in our relationships. They provide a great resource to overcome those issues, and to improve ourselves, and others.
