Breathing Room: Creating Space to Be a Couple

by Elayne Savage

Intimacy is a balancing act that leaves most people teetering between their need for closeness and their need for autonomy. Couples often fall into treacherous patterns of hurt feelings and misunderstandings as one partner pushes for more intimacy and the other pulls away. In Breathing Room, psychtherapist Elayne Savage shows readers how to recognize what the space struggles in their relationships are really about. Thought-provoking exercises and examples from her her friends, practice and workshop participants help couples get past old resentments and negotiate a shared space that satisfies each person's expectations and needs.

210 pages, Paperback

First published January 30, 2001

Reviews

[Ryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Solid reading on how creating space can be healthy in a relationship. The author presents some useful strategies and examples, but sometimes it feels like her chapters are too brief. Another thing is the amount of typos (about a dozen) in this book is glaringly obvious and inexcusable. Besides that, I'd recommend this book for couples, or for singles intent on improving and maintaining current or future relationships.

[Terra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Learned to redefine my definition of a couple in a positive way.

[Allison · Rating 3 out of 5]

Would have gone for 4 but the grammar and punctuation issues nearly killed me!