THE SECRETS OF HAPPILY MARRIED WOMEN: How To Get More Out of Your Relationship by Doing Less

NOW IN PAPERBACK, this ground-breaking book got people talking about the revolutionary idea that women could enjoy their marriages more, if they would only learn how to do less.

For generations, women have been visiting therapists, buying countless self-help books, and compromising their values and desires without achieving the type of happiness that is possible in a marriage. Enough is enough.

THE SECRETS OF HAPPILY MARRIED WOMEN: How To Get More Out of Your Relationship by Doing Less (Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint; January 2009; $14.95, Paper; 978-0-470-40180-4) reveals that women are working too hard on “fixing” their marriages. Instead, renowned psychiatrist and best-selling author Dr. Scott Haltzman teaches women how to recognize and take advantage of men’s powerful, hard-wired desire to please them. Once women understand this core male instinct, they can actually start getting more out of their relationship by doing less.

Following the success of Dr. Haltzman’s The Secrets of Happily Married Men: Eight Ways to Win Your Wife’s Heart Forever (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2006), THE SECRETS OF HAPPILY MARRIED WOMEN is comprised of lessons learned from 20 years of clinical practice and thousands of women’s participation in his Internet community, Happilymarriedwomen.com.

Some of the secrets Dr. Haltzman reveals include:

- Learn how to communicate about the connection you seek.
- Don’t try to be perfect. Your house doesn’t have to look like the Barbie Dream House.
- Nurture your husband’s strengths, and don’t try to change what you can’t.
- Speak in shorter sentences, don’t skip from subject to subject and pause frequently.
- Take time for your own exercise, spiritual and intellectual needs.