"Improving Your Relationship For Dummies" is your essential guide to being happy with your partner. Whether you want to work through tiresome niggles, iron out potential issues before taking the next step, cope with serious problems, or simply fortify your partnership against the ups and downs of daily life, this reassuring relationship manual provides all the expert advice and practical support you need. Packed with key information on managing change, successful cohabitation, overcoming jealousy and igniting passion, and including worksheets designed to get you and your partner thinking and working together, this is your passport to a loving, communicative relationship that's set to last.

"Improving Your Relationship For Dummies" includes:

PART I - PREPARING FOR RELATIONSHIP CHANGEChapter 1 - Understanding the Economics of Love                      Chapter 2 - Doing a Relationship Inventory                                              Chapter 3 - Developing the Ground Rules of a Successful Relationship

PART II - BOOSTING YOUR RELATIONSHIPChapter 4 - Prioritising Your Relationship                                                Chapter 5 - Doing Oodles of Soppy Stuff                                                      Chapter 6 - The Essentials of Sex                                                                Chapter 7 - Turning Up the Sexual Thermostat                                           

PART III - IMPROVING COMMUNICATION AND RESOLVING CONFLICTChapter 8 -Establishing the Rules of Effective CommunicationChapter 9 - Resolving Conflict                 Chapter 10 - Breaking the Argument Cycle                           

PART IV - WORKING THROUGH RELATIONSHIP ISSUESChapter 11 - Overcoming Day to Day Grumbles                              Chapter 12 - Handling the Bigger Issues                                   Chapter 13 - Managing Major Life Changes                Chapter 14 - Surviving an Affair                      Chapter 15 - Recognising When it's Over                                

PART V - THE PART OF TENS                  Chapter 16: Ten Rules of Effective CommunicationChapter 17: Ten Ways to Ignite Passion Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Avoid a Row Chapter 19: Ten Great Expectations for Couples

APPENDIX                                                                                                                                          Worksheets for couples to work through together to assess the areas of their relationship they want to work on and resolve conflict.