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Audio Series: The Prerequisites for Relationship Success

Disc 1

Dr. Atkinson begins by introducing listeners to the groundbreaking discoveries that researchers have made about the emotional habits that are necessary for relationship success.  Step-by-step, Dr. Atkinson describes how people who are good at getting their partners to treat them well go about doing it.   The listener is guided through a 12-step sequence of highly effective things that these people do when they feel misunderstood, offended, taken for granted or mistreated.    You'll learn that people who get treated well by their partners combine two things:  1) a generous attitude toward their partners, and 2) an absolute requirement that their feelings count as much as their partners’.  People who are good at getting their partners to treat them well tend to see the best in their partners, but they’re also willing to put their partners in their place when they need to.  In this CD, you'll learn the secrets of how people combine a generous attitude with the ability to stand up for themselves without putting their partners down.

The Tracks of Disc 1

1-Why Relationships Succeed or Fail

2-Introduction to the Sequence

3-Step 1:Remember to do something different

4-Step 2: Give the Benefit of the Doubt

5-Step 3: Find the Understandable Part

6-Step 4: What's Driving My Feelings

7-Step 5: Offering Assurances

8- Step 6 Work with Me

9-Intro to the 2nd half of the sequence

10- Step 7: Maintain Your Cool

11- Step 8: Offer and Ask

12- Step 9: Stand Up – Engage

13- Step 10: Reject Your Partner

14- Step 11: Don't Make a Big Deal of It

15- Step 2: Try Again Later

16-Concluding Thoughts on The Sequence

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