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Two Plus Two: Couples and Their Couple Friendships 1st Edition, Kindle Edition
Friendships are undeniably important to an individual’s health, longevity and wellbeing, but they can be equally important for the health and happiness of a couple. Just as a friend can provide a mirror to the self, another couple can provide a reflecting team that supports or impedes a relationship’s growth. Two Plus Two: Couples and Their Couple Friendships offers an important framework for helping couples to have conversations about their friendships with other couples and to enrich their own relationships. When couples agree about how to spend their time alone and with others, they are more likely to have a happy marriage or relationship.
Couple friendships have not been researched previously, despite their numerous benefits. Authors Geoffrey Greif and Kathleen Deal take an in-depth approach to this important topic. Based on interviews with more than 400 people--some of whom were interviewed with their partners, some who were interviewed alone, and some who have divorced--they find that couples fall into three general categories of making couple friendships: Seekers, Keepers, and Nesters. Drs. Greif and Deal discuss the different styles of interaction they've observed in couples as well as the findings from their research. Readings from their interviews illustrate what characteristics define Seekers, Keepers, and Nesters. Couples at any stage of their relationship will get a fresh understanding of how to seek, foster and sustain positive, healthy friendships.
- ISBN-13978-0415879279
- Edition1st
- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication dateApril 23, 2012
- LanguageEnglish
- File size1802 KB
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"Dr. Greif and Dr. Deal have given couples everywhere a fascinating and helpful look at how these friendships evolve, why they are often so meaningful, and when to look out for land mines. It's a terrific read on a subject that often goes unaddressed." - Jeffrey Zaslow, Wall Street Journal columnist and author of The Girls from Ames, coauthor of The Last Lecture
"Making and keeping couple friends leads to happier lives. This amazing book provides insight into friendships and how to make them an asset, not a liability, for couples. Important reading for couples as well as therapists." - Jon Carlson, Governors State University, Illinois, USA
"With a pitch-perfect blend of scholarly research and wisdom, Drs. Greif and Deal have written the definitive guide to understanding and building satisfying couple friendships. Every couple and anyone even contemplating coupling should read this book." - Irene S. Levine, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA and author of Best Friends Forever: Surviving a Breakup with Your Best Friend
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- ASIN : B007M9D6L2
- Publisher : Routledge; 1st edition (April 23, 2012)
- Publication date : April 23, 2012
- Language : English
- File size : 1802 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Up to 4 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 232 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1138425621
- Best Sellers Rank: #226,469 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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Two by Two introduces the reader to a subject with which all couples have experience, but about the implications of which we probably rarely think: the profound importance of and benefit couples derive from friendships with other couples, and the effects of such relationships upon the partners and their marriages.
As with Dr. Greif's other works, the book explains clearly the methodology, the expectations, the results (anticipated and surprising), and the lessons for scholars, but principally the lessons for readers---- here for couples of all ages, races, etc.
The book is not long, and is an easy read. It uses stories of real couples (names changed)and their experiences, a format essential to its entertaining, reader-friendly mode.
I recommend it without reservation.