Married to Distraction How to Restore

Are you more distant from your spouse than yours"d like to be? Do you or your spouse waste time mindlessly viewing email or surfing the Web? Welcome to the club!Modern marriage is busy, distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing lists of things to do, superficial electronic connections, and interrupted moments. The good news is that there are straightforward and effective ways to restore communication and connection, resurrect happiness and romance, and strengthen-even save-a marriage. bull; Observe the natural sequence of sustaining love: attention, time, connection, and play. bull; Develop and nurture empathy-the essential building block to healthy communication. bull; Carve out small moments of uninterrupted attention for each other. bull; Identify the pressures that our crazybusy lifestyles put on love and marriage, and fight back with tenderness and appreciation. Complete with scripts, tips, communication techniques, and a detailed 30-day reconnection plan, as well as inspiring real-life stories,Married to Distractionwill set couples on a course of understanding, healing, and love.

Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., was an instructor at Harvard Medical School for twenty years and is now the director of the Hallowell Centers for Cognitive and Emotional Health in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and New York City. He is the co-author of Delivered from Distraction and Driven to Distraction as well as the author of CrazyBusy, The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness, and Worry, among other titles.

Sue George Hallowell, LICSW, has been a practicing couples’ therapist for more than twenty-five years. The Hallowells are the parents of three teenage children. They live in Arlington, Massachusetts.

From the Hardcover edition.

Introduction	p. ix
Modern Issues in Intimacy	p. 1
The Anatomy of Modern Love	p. 3
Your Attention...Please?	p. 10
Interrupted...Everything	p. 22
Making Time to Connect	p. 30
Distracters and Organizers	p. 39
Seemingly Selfish	p. 49
The Big Struggle	p. 55
Resolving the Problems of Distraction	p. 67
Struggle Stoppers	p. 59
Download Overload	p. 80
Eliminate Toxic Worry	p. 84
When Your Spouse Has True ADD	p. 89
When Your Spouse Feels Like Your Child	p. 98
The New World of Affairs	p. 105
Time for Sex	p. 112
Just How Neat Must a Person Be?	p. 118
Managing Anger and Frustration	p. 121
Promoting Passionate Connection	p. 127
Conation: An Unfamiliar Key to Empathy	p. 129
Special-ize	p. 135
Building Romance	p. 146
The Unexpected Gift	p. 150
Finding Hope	p. 159
What Makes It Worthwhile	p. 166
Ten Reasons Not to Get Divorced; Ten Reasons To Get Divorced; and Forty Ways to Make Your Marriage Great	p. 178
Thirty Minutes, Thirty Days: A Workbook for Modern Marriage	p. 187
Acknowledgments	p. 223
Notes	p. 225
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Married to Distraction How to Restore Intimacy and Strengthen Your Partnership in an Age of Interruption

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