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Connect to Love: The Keys to Transforming Your Relationship
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In their own voices, women show how to strengthen your relationship-with surprising revelations from New York Times bestselling author Gary Neuman

This breakthrough book, based on the voices of real women from all walks of life and groundbreaking new research, shows couples how to grow stronger by understanding what women need from a romantic relationship. In Connect to Love, family counselor and relationships expert M.Gary Neuman explores the problems that women face in their marriages or relationships that might make them dissatisfied with their partners-or willing to stray. Neuman reveals the startling discoveries he made through his in-depth new research of more than five hundred women. When it comes to sexual intimacy, for instance, wives who are satisfied with their marriages have sex more than twice as frequently than those who are dissatisfied.

Includes a step-by-step two-week plan to improve your relationship
Filled with dramatic personal stories and surprising findings on sex, emotional issues, intimacy, communication, and more
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Truth about Cheating
Neuman has been a frequent guest on Oprah, Today, and other major TV shows
Written for couples while addressing both female and male issues

Written with a compassionate and down-to-earth tone, Connect to Love will open your eyes to see relationships in a new way while empowering yourself and your partner for change.

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Also by M. Gary Neuman

The Truth about Cheating: Why Men Stray and What You Can Do to Prevent It

In Good Times and Bad: Strengthening Your Relationship When the Going Gets Tough

How to Make a Miracle: Finding Incredible Spirituality in Times of Struggle and Happiness

Emotional Infidelity: How to Affair-Proof Your Marriage and 10 Other Secrets to a Great Relationship

Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way

For the four great women in my life, with much love and gratitude:

My mother, Celia
My mother-in-law, Rochelle
My wife, Melisa
My daughter, Esther

PREFACE

There I was, sitting with Oprah on her set discussing my book The Truth about Cheating: Why Men Stray and What You Can Do to Prevent It. For over twenty-three years, Ive worked to help couples through significant problems in their relationships. My goal has always been to develop healthier attitudes and genuine loving connections between partners. When I wrote The Truth about Cheating, I was excited about exploring the inner thoughts of faithful and unfaithful men in a study of two hundred men throughout the United States. I knew it would be empowering for women to know what their men were thinking, yet not sharing, on the topic of faithfulness. Some women asked me, What about us and our cheating and unhappiness?

I felt that having the key to what makes men tick in relationships would only improve womens chances for happiness in their relationships. I announced on the show that I was in the process of doing comprehensive research on the faithfulness of womenor lack thereof. It was a long-avoided topic, and I wanted to explore what women were thinking and feeling in their relationships and how they could get their needs and desires met. This book reveals the results of that research. Over five hundred women from around the world have spoken, giving me the opportunity to share their deepest feelings and struggles.

Research has significantly changed with the Internet, which offers an unmatched anonymity that translates to more honest answers today than researchers might have been able to get in the past. Especially when dealing with such a subject as marital dissatisfaction and female cheating, anonymity is essential. I created my research questions with the assistance of a college professor and others at the university and posted them online. I considered where I could best hear a collective female voice. I was fortunate to be granted permission to use Oprah.com, which graciously created a link to my study so that women visiting that site could participate in it. In a separate study, I conducted face-to-face interviews with women from a parenting class in South Florida, where I live. Finally, several additional Web sites linked to my research questions after the link on Oprah.com closed. I then had three different sources of information that I could compare to see if I was receiving similar information from each. I found the results to be the same in all three groups, which gave me confidence that the research represented the genuine views of a cross-section of women.

I wanted to find clear, practical solutions for men and women to make their relationships much better. I needed to find the actions you could take that would work and, just as important, which ones would not work. I wanted to discover the few most influential ways to make an incredible difference in your marriage.

To accomplish this, I developed two survey questionnaires: one for women involved in extramarital affairs and one for those who were faithful. The only prerequisite for women taking one of the two surveys was that they had to be or have been married; the reason for this was to avoid any confusion about the definition of cheating. I also found out how many women felt their infidelity led to divorce. The faithful survey had fifty-two questions and the unfaithful survey had sixty-seven. If you take these numbers and add the fact that most of the questions had multiple responses (where women were asked to supply percentage values for all options that applied), then multiply by the 505 individual women who took the survey, you will see that you are the beneficiary of more than 100,000 total responses. The participants represent every state in the United Statesplus theres a voice from other parts of the world, including Europe, South America, Canada, Australia, and Africa. Different ages, races, and incomes are all represented.

This research has been presented at an international psychological conference and is being submitted for publication in psychological journals. The stories are eye-opening. The results are surprising. The answers this collective female voice offers all of usboth women and menare practical and meaningful.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

To Oprah Winfrey, thank you for allowing me to use Oprah.com to assist with this research and for helping me help others.

To Professor Matthew Sachs, PhD, for your crucial assistance in this study. Thank you for representing my work at psychological conventions and for your tireless efforts to help me develop the research and create a reliable and valid measure. You have been wonderful to work with. We made a great team, and I hope we can team up again for future projects.

To my daughter, Esther, thanks for your incredible help with this research.Your management of the study and of the women who participated was wise and warm. I couldnt have done it without you.

To Carol Mann, thank you for making it all happen and for your calmness and efficiency.

To Tom Miller, thanks for the endless time youve put into this book and for caring so much about its message. Your efforts are much appreciated.

To Rachel Meyers, thanks for your thoughtful and great copy-editing of this book.

To Ronni Stolzenberg and Betsy Hulsebosh at Launchpad 360, thanks for all of your help in bringing my message to others.

To Kitt Allan, Laura Cusack, and Mike Onorato, thank you for your constant effort and genuine care of this book.

To Robin Landers, thanks for your humor and insights, for reading and editing the manuscript, and for provoking many discussions about men and women since the dawn of womankind. You are always thrilled to help out, and it is so appreciated.

To my friends and family who gave of their time and insights:

Sherri and Jeff, Barbara and Craig, Jill and David, Karen and Peter, Nancy and Marty, for being there at all times.

Robin Jacobs, for working with me to advance my message and for your unique take on life.

Dr. Alfred Jonas, I continue to strive to live up to your example of humility, kindness, and psychological insight.

Rick Hirsch, for the journalists insight into how the world works.

Allan Rosenthal, Esq., thank you for always returning my calls and answering questions with the wisdom of your life experience. You are a true friend to my family.

Sandy Rosenblum, Esq., for all of your help and generosity of time and spirit.

The Weill family and all of my friends at G.V. Thank you for listening to my findings, always providing great feedback, and endless hospitality.

Bonnie, for always being there.

Many thanks to my children, Yehuda, Esther, Michael, Pacey, and Danny for being so kind and interested in the myriad discussions surrounding the writing of this book. Your mother and I love you and are proud of each of you. We are so blessed to have you for our children, and now youve grown into my best friends.

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