Secrets Of Strong Couples: Personal Stories And Couples Comm

Description: Keep Your Marriage StrongCouples communication and relationship experts David Bulitt and Julie Bulitt share their relational knowledge in Secrets of Strong Couples. With stories and marriage help tested by real couples, learn how to survive and thrive after relationship and marriage fights, becoming parents, deaths, and other struggles. Get partnership and marriage help tested by real couples. The relationship experts behind the bestselling The Core Conversations for Couples put together another essential couples book for relationships. Secrets of Strong Couples shows you how real couples have made it through to the other side of real crises-together. Learn how to overcome couples communication hardships, marriage fights, and more. Walk alongside committed partners as you learn how to fix your marriage or relationship, no matter what life throws at you. Whether you're dealing with infertility, job loss, infidelity, grief, or other relationship strife, these personal stories provide all the relationship and marriage advice you need to thrive! Inside this essential couples gift, you'll find: Practical advice from authors experienced in couples, marriage counseling and divorce law Examples of how to persevere through life's most difficult trials without losing each other Real couples communication help from partners who are not afraid to share their difficult stories Readers of couples books for relationships like This Is How Your Marriage Ends by Matthew Fray, Marriage Be Hard by Kevin Fredericks & Melissa Fredericks, or Communication Miracles for Couples by Jonathan Robinson will love Secrets of Strong Couples. Review: "Written by a licensed relationship therapist and a divorce attorney, if you read this book, you won't need the services of either! Insightful and relatable, the stories and advice in this book can help ANY couple!" -Becca Anderson, author of Let Me Count the Ways "As a matrimonial lawyer of forty years, I feel that Julie and David touched upon some very difficult subjects that couples are faced with, but they are unprepared to deal with. As a result, the issues are not discussed between them in a productive manner and can lead to acrimony in the relationship. The wonderful dynamic between this couple is remarkable-with David 'stating the obvious' (i.e., what everyone is thinking but afraid to say) in a manner that normalizes the issue; and then Julie steps in to reframe the issue so as to enlighten and teach the psychological perspective. The result: it brings hope to the couple, which is just terrific. Julie looks behind what is actually happening, and articulates the source of the problem, not what appears to be happening on the surface, so it is easier for the couple to understand and deal with. I found the chapters addressing bipolar disorder, ADHD, trans issues, and boundaries with parents particularly enlightening because parents just do not know how to deal with these topics and are ashamed to even discuss them. The Bulitts' courage in sharing their own story made me cry, but that in and of itself brings authenticity to the entire book. Well done!" -Robin Taub, Esquire, matrimonial lawyer Contents: Contents Introduction: Drilling Down The First Conflict: Becoming a Parent Karim and Natasha: Finding the Same Page John and Jennifer: Infertility, Adoption and the Second Time Around Megan and Sean: Religion, Family, and IVF Torrence and Tamika: Maybe It's Not Meant to Be Brittany and Nicholas: Can We Go Thru It Again? Bethany and George: Yours, Mine, Ours? The Second Conflict: Illness, Death and Loss Barbara and Steve: Silence and Strength Carry Them Through Linda and Matt: Our Boy Has Cancer Sarah and Michael: She's Crazy. I Love Her. Jeff and Dana: It's Not Jeff. It's Someone Else. Someone I Don't Know. Brandon and Lauren: Why Can't He Be Normal? Tony and Nicole: He Used to Run. Now He Sleeps. Becca and Ron: She Won't Get Better. And Then She'll Die. The Third Conflict: Jobs, Careers, and Money Ty and Candice: It's a Man's Job. I Failed. Randi and Jake: He Needs to Get Back to the Office Kyle and Morgan: I Thought It Was a Good Idea. Then the Credit Cards Got Maxed. Juan and Vanessa: Kids Are in School. I'm Back to Work. Noah and Lindsey: We're Broke. Are We Broken? Troy and Angel: Up in Smoke The Fourth Conflict: Frequent Fractures Kimberly and Ben: Only a One Nighter. Or Was It Two? Pam and Ryan: His Mom Makes Our Bed Gina and Todd: It Used to Just Take a Stiff Wind Christie and Jim: Another Dead Soldier Tristan and Carly: He Gambled. We Lost. Keith and Anna: I Have Three children. Didn't Ask for a Fourth. The Fifth Conflict: Living Your Life Aimee and Claudia: Yes, We're Gay. Yes, That's Our Son. Max and Inez: We're Jewish. He's Black. Maya and Howard: It's Not as Sweet as a Cookie Jamar and Nichelle: He Should Be Hammering Nails, Not Painting Them Cam and Erin: Black Plus White Equals What Exactly? Corey and Scott: It's Not the 1950s. Or Is It? The Takeaway About the Authors Author Biography: Julie Bulitt is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 25 years of experience working with individuals, couples, and families. Her private practice focuses on family, couples and individual therapy, ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and Executive Functioning coaching. She has served as a Clinical Supervisor and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant for the Montgomery County (Maryland) Mental Health Association, an Adoption Therapist for the Center for Support and Education in suburban Washington DC. She currently is an in-house therapist for The Discovery Channel in Silver Spring, Maryland. David Bulitt is a partner in the Washington DC Metro law firm of Joseph, Greenwald & Laake, PA. For more than a decade, he has been chosen as one of the Washington area's top divorce lawyers by multiple publications, recognized as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" and a Washington DC Metro "Super Lawyer." Praised as "the lawyer who epitomizes stability and old fashioned common sense" by Bethesda Magazine, David has a particular interest in families with special needs children as a result of personal experiences in his own family. He is a published author of two fiction novels, multiple articles in legal publications and has appeared as a special guest on several local television shows. Promotional Information: David and Julie have been married for 34 years. They have four daughters, two of whom are biological and two adopted, and three grandchildren. They divide their time between suburban Washington, DC, and Bethany Beach, Delaware. Learn more about David and Julie at www.thebulitts.com. They are active on all major social media platforms and can be found @thebulitts on Facebook (2,500 followers), Instagram (3400 followers) and Twitter (1300 followers). David and Julie also have a weekly Facebook Live event-Couples Cocktails with The Bulitt's-Thursdays at 7pm ET. Started in March, 2020, the Bulitt's Couples Cocktails now garners over 1000 views per episode. Recent appearances: Fox 5 Good Day DC: https://www.fox5dc.com/video/653262 ABC/WJLA Good Morning Washington: https://wjla.com/features/good-morning-washington/core-conversations-every-couple-should-have Big Blend Radio, TV and in Magazine: https://en.calameo.com/read/0039965667ea126c26317?page=68 Stronger Together - Virtual Summit for Couples The Better Sex Podcast May 5, 2020 - Interview: Better Sex Podcast with Jessa Zimmerman The Moco Show Howie Doin It Podcast Chapter One Podcast https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/chapter-one-podcast#/ So She Grows Podcast Radio Appearance WOCM 98.1 Ocean city, MD https://soundcloud.com/user-110725098/june-30th?in=user-110725098/sets/bulldog-the-rude-awakening-show A Generous Marriage Podcast New Rochelle, New York Public Library appearance: Communication Tips for Families During COVID 19 I Do Podcast Millennial Livin Podcast Bethany Beach Books Virtual Author Appearance Baltimore Sun Op-Ed, February, 2021 "COVID - We're Gonna Miss you when You're Gone" https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0212-covid-pros-20210211-rc5hcxxsmzgqppahfzbdpcveua-story.html Baltimore Sun Op-Ed, April, 2021 "Put Away Your Pandemic PJ's" https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0406-put-pajamas-away-20210405-trba7bbjqvgs3jyh3aq3xz7eca-story.html Awards: Kirkus Reviews: Top Indie Reviews, March, 2021 https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/david-bulitt/the-five-core-conversations-for-couples/ Living Now Book Awards, Silver Medal 2020 Readers Choice Book Awards Bronze Medal 2020 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards, Second Place 2020