Married For 5000 Years: - How The Wisdom Of Successfully Married Couples Will Help Marriage And Relationships Prosper In The 21st Century - - gebrauchtes Buch

The story of a man's journey of discovery to find the Holy Grail of marriage revealed through the experiences of 100 successfully married couples who found exceptional love. Their stories and wisdom provide key insights to the foundations of long-term love and the lessons critical for relationship balance amidst the unpredictability of the 21st century environment. By their own words they had found that "one in a million" romance. Together happily for many decades, these experts would explain just how they found, developed, and cultivated this love that lasted for so long - that provide answers to anyone who has ever asked the question, "How does one find long-lasting love?" After all, if you wanted to find love and happiness in a relationship, whether in marriage or alongside that special person you've developed compatibility with, who better to learn from than those who have lived it, in a collective 5,000 years of marriage? Their advice and counsel is not relayed from a clinical or therapist's point of view. Their wisdom is straight from the heart, practical, at times painfully learned; but nevertheless honest and forthright. The data revealed: - When ranked in terms extreme importance, trust was rated higher than love. - Relative to trust, men rated it higher in extreme importance than women did. - Friendship followed trust and love as the third most important dimension. - Appearance most likely was the initial relationship spark. It was ranked least important. Their stories and advice to us: "A couple can't underestimate the need to be in sync with their communication... the lifeblood of a relationship." "You show each other that it is still the very best choice you ever made." "You have to treat your mate like they are the most important thing in the world." "Know that you are going to have tough spots, so don't be afraid of them. But beware of being right. It's when we think we are right that often we are wrong."