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How we connect emotionally -- Step one: Look at your bids for connection -- Six bid busters and how to avoid them -- Step two: Discover your brain's emotional command systems -- Step three: Examine your emotional heritage -- Step four: Sharpen your emotional communication skills -- Step five. Find shared meaning -- Apply what you've learned.

From the country's foremost relationship expert and New York Times bestselling author Dr. John M. Gottman comes a powerful, simple five-step program, based on twenty years of innovative research, for greatly improving all of the relationships in your life -- with spouses and lovers, children, siblings, and even your colleagues at work. In The Relationship Cure, Dr. Gottman: Reveals the key elements of healthy relationships, emphasizing the importance of what he calls "emotional connection"; Introduces the powerful new concept of the emotional "bid," the fundamental unit of emotional connection; Provides remarkably empowering tools for improving the way you bid for emotional connection and how you respond to others' bids. - Publisher.

One of the nation's top relationship doctors outlines his program for repairing damaged relationships between spouses, lovers, co-workers, and family members.