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Audio CD Description As a follow-up to his bestselling book Life Strategies, Oprah acolyte Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D., moves from aiding the aimless individual to coaching the disconnected couple. McGraw has distilled his more than two decades of counseling experience into a seven-step strategy he calls "Relationship Rescue." "I'm prepared to kick a hole in the wall of the pain-ridden, unhappy maze you've gotten yourself into, and provide you clear access to action-oriented answers and instructions on what you must do to have what you want," says Dr. Phil. His aim is to expose and eliminate the saboteurs that cause senseless damage to already-fragile marriages, and, like an emotional root canal, to replace them with values he says provide positive results. If you follow Dr. Phil's strategy, he will lead you on a precise journey to uncover your heart and then share it with your partner as part of taking the "risk of intimacy." Dr. Phil leads you to "reconnect with your core" in the first five steps of his seven-step strategy. By no means a quick fix, there are in-depth and rigorous questionnaires, surveys, tests, and profiles that require a "brutally candid" mindset, with such fill-in-the-blanks as "List five things that today would make you fall out of love with your partner." With this internal work accomplished, you'll then move on to reconnecting with your partner during a two-week, half-hour-a-day short course. As a "dyad," you and your loved one take turns giving monologues on topics such as "The most positive thing I took away from my mother and father's relationship was..." Once the "reconnection" has been established, Dr. Phil says the work shifts to a management role, as relationships are always a work in progress. Dr. Phil humorously refers to his own marriage throughout the book, sharing his mishaps and victories in learning to accept and enjoy what he sees as fundamental but complementary differences between men and women. --John Youngs

Customer Reviews Dr. Phil To The Rescue! I enjoy all of Dr. Phil's books--I find them intelligent, well-organized and insightful. This book is one of his best because to shows that relationships in trouble really need the equivalent of a SWAT team -- that's your time and attention. In the family/parenting genre I also love Annie Lamott and I really enjoyed a book about the magic of being a father and the difficulty of marriage, "I Sleep At Red Lights: A True Story of Life After Triplets," by Bruce Stockler. A REAL WAKE UP CALL Listen all couples, I am or was in a pretty bad relationship, and convinced my girlfriend to read the book with me. Dr.Phil yet speaks the truth, you and only you can see it within yourself, all Dr. Phil does is gives it to you in another way you may be able to understand. I am far from perfect but after reviewing this book, I have changed my entire outlook, its just to bad it took me 29 years to do so. Im happy to say I'm much happier with the things that are happening in my life. BUY THIS BOOK, it will forever change your thinking for the better. Keep up the good work He actually has a lot to teach in a time when the term "common sense" has lost it's meaning, and isn't so common anymore.