52 Emails to Transform Your Marriage

by Samantha Rodman

Press “send” for amazing results! With 52 E-mails to Transform Your Marriage, you’ll find a year’s worth of e-mails to help you reconnect with your spouse, reignite intimacy, and keep your love alive.

There’s no doubt marriage can be a challenge—we’ve all heard that half of marriages end in divorce. A common problem you may face as a couple is feeling stuck or disconnected—lonely within the marriage—as if you and your spouse were worlds apart, even as you present a united front. Attempts to discuss the problem may lead to painful arguments, and even couples therapy may prove more expensive and time-consuming than effective, putting each of you on the spot and moving so quickly that you may leave, session after session, without feeling closer. E-mail, however, can be a much less threatening way to communicate your true thoughts and feelings.

Based on the author’s popular online relationship coaching sessions, each chapter of this book provides an e-mail writing assignment focused on a different topic, such as sex, intimacy, communication, trust, and the future. These weekly assignments will grant you both the time to write—which can be extremely therapeutic in itself—and read what the other has to say without the need for an immediate response.

With 52 E-mails to Transform Your Marriage, you’ll discover useful tips for good communication, learn how to respond to messages with empathy and validation, and be well on your way to rediscovering and sustaining the love that brought you together in the first place.

Genres: Nonfiction, Relationships, Self Help

280 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2016

Reviews

[Infidelity Recovery · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a great project for both unfaithful and betrayed spouses. It opens up the lines of communication again, gets you thinking about the positives in your spouse and your relationship, takes you through an email a week on a topic which is central to a relationship. Relationships are challenging and these prompts help you explore your positives and those areas you'd like to improve.

It opens up a safe way to communicate without risk of massive blow ups with each other, time to digest what your partner has to say, and reply safely and with a structure to follow.

I really recommend this for those going through recovery from an affair.

[Stephanie Sweatt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dr. Rodman has done a wonderful job distilling easy to follow assignments and examples to improve communication within a marriage. Those familiar with her blog (Dr. Psych Mom) will recognize her witty, no nonsense style. Many of the assignments were similar to ones from Drs. Gottmans' books but were adapted to fit in a hectic technological lifestyle. I am sure I will recommended this book to clients and friends who would appreciate prompts to improve communication in their romantic relationships.

[Melanie Greenberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Practical tips and exercises written in an original style.

[Joseph Santiago · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received a copy of this book to review and found it to be a good way to get people talking. Not just saying words at another person, but being introspective about the person they are and journey that they have had with another person. Many things happen to us that can close us off and open us up in some areas of our life. As our lives become increasingly more connected we all have the habit of dealing with surface details that go along with present and future moments more then the deeper connections that link those moments with us and our partner(s). This book offer topics and explore themes that the reader is supposed to read, think over, and write on in a email to their partner. Doing so has the benefit of including our thoughts on topics that are more and less hot topics. Doing so brings the interactions in the content areas to the partner. This book serves as a launch pad that a person can use to establish and rekindle connections to elements of life as individuals and together. This book offers a guided outline of topics to get a person doing what they should be doing through a relationship. So if a person gets good at talking about these topics it will help them share insights with new and old acquaintances. This was a good read.

Mr Joe