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Married to Distraction

Restoring Intimacy and Strengthening Your Marriage in an Age of Interruption

by Edward Hallowell
Sue Hallowell
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Modern marriage is busy, distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing lists of things to do, superficial electronic connections, and interrupted moments. Now Edward M. Hallowell, the bestselling co-author of Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction, teams up with his wife, Sue George Hallowell, a couples’ therapist, to explain the subtle but dangerous toll today’s overstretched, undernurtured lifestyle takes on our most intimate relationship. The good news is that there are straightforward and effective ways to maneuver your marriage out of the destructive roadblocks created by the avalanche of busy living.
• Observe the natural sequence of sustaining love: attention, time, connection, and play.
• Develop and nurture empathy—the essential building block to healthy communication.
• Carve out small moments of uninterrupted attention for each other.
• Identify the pressures that our crazy busy lifestyles put on love and marriage, and fight back with tenderness and appreciation.
All of us who have been part of a couple for more than a few years will recognize ourselves in this reassuring book. Married to Distraction will set couples on a course of understanding, healing, and love.

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  • Release date

    March 16, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780307713155
      • File size: 140675 KB
      • Duration: 04:53:04

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      An expert on attention deficit disorder (ADD) and his wife, a marriage therapist, offer suggestions for keeping distractions and distractibility from harming marriage relationships. Both the Hallowells share the narration, and neither has the professional sound of a seasoned narrator. Furthermore, they overdramatize dialogue. In spite of these shortcomings, they come across as caring teachers. The case studies they cite are helpful and concise as they show couples getting into exhausting conflicts and blaming patterns because of distractibility, failing to organize, over-organizing, and not managing their outside commitments. Though the strategies they suggest often sound thin or poorly delineated, they succeed in reminding us that resolving conflicts about distractibility must have a foundation in empathizing, not judging each other, and in staying emotionally connected. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from January 25, 2010
      How to marry him—and stay married.
      Married to Distraction: Restoring Intimacy and Strengthening Your Marriage in an Age of Interruption
      Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.
      , and Sue George Hallowell
      , with Melissa Orlov
      Ballantine
      , $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-345-50799-0

      It is remarkable that a couple so well versed in the woes of their patients’ marriages has the capacity for the kind of optimism and clear-sighted wisdom that readers will find in these pages. The Hallowells (he teaches at Harvard Medical School and heads the Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health; she is a couples’ therapist) examine the new and hard-to-resist stresses placed on the modern-day marriage with a compassionate focus on forgiveness and self-reflection. Those in search of practical, concrete advice for creating and saving healthy marriages will find what they need.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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