PRAISE FOR
The 15-Minute Relationship Fix
Dr. Joel Blocks 15-Minute Relationship Fix is a practical means of enriching and strengthening intimate relationships. By giving themselves the 15-Minute Fix couples can make their intimate relationship complete and satisfying.
DR. DANIEL L. ARAOZ, board-certified psychologist and professor emeritus, Long Island University
Dr. Block has transformed decades of psychological research into a brief, weekly practice with a huge return on investment. Busy, modern-day couples will find that the easy-to-follow guidelines of The 15-Minute Relationship Fix will not only increase intimacy and love satisfaction within their romantic relationships; the skills taught will improve emotional intelligence, and by extension ones ability to lead a satisfying, effective life.
OMYDA ROUNDEZ, Ph.D., clinical psychologist
Dr. Block helps us to navigate through relationship issues that have confused us from the beginning of time. He defines the challenges all couples face and shows us how intimacy can strengthen and nourish ourselves as well as our partnership. He offers a wonderfully sophisticated blend of technique and psychological theory in understanding our human condition.
KAREN COOPER, Psy.D., clinical psychologist
Dr. Joel Blocks 15 Minute Relationship Fix will be a boon to any couple who wishes to grow closer and more intimate. This book combines tried and true approaches with new research findings from the field of love and attachment. Couples who closely follow Dr. Blocks detailed prescriptions can expect to reap both immediate and long - term rewards for the time they spend following his program. Notwithstanding its title, this book requires effort and a willingness to take emotional risks. Those who do will be amply rewarded.
RON MURPHY, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist
In his typically clear concise style, Dr. Joel Block offers a useful quick guide for couples. The easy-to-read and digest tips about listening to each other and self-soothing can be easily put into action to perk up a relationshipand oneself.
DR. JUDY KURIANSKY, professor, therapist, author of The Complete Idiots Guide to A Healthy Relationship
There are many self-help books that claim to offer help with your love life. Most are full of general observations and offer few, if any, suggestions about how to apply these in real life. Dr. Joel Blocks 15-Minute Relationship Fix is not one of these. It is refreshingly candid, and offers practical strategies that anyone, in a relationship or hoping to be, can use to improve their lives. If you were expecting a dry, academic lecture, you wont find it here. Dr. Block focuses on the key reasons couples lose connection and intimacy, illustrates them with dialog taken from real conversations and provides a series of straightforward steps that couples can use to discover their authentic and loving selves. Run, dont walk to your book seller and get a copy today, it will change your life.
DOUGLAS A. WEISS, author of Life, Love and Internet Dating
My husband and I had grown apart when we reached out to Dr. Block and were introduced to The 15-Minute Relationship Fix. Frankly, we were skeptical that our intimacy was going to be healed by a book. We were wrong! Following the guide brought us back to our early days of emotional intimacy.
JOAN AND ERIC, together 23 years
We fought all the time and our fights never settled anything, leaving us alienated and living together like roommates. My wife convinced me that our 13-year marriage with two children was worth saving. Well, it worked! We followed the guidelines and after three months we were much closer and went the longest we had in recent years without a fight.
FRANK AND MICHELLE, married 13 years
We were one of those couples that played it safe, speaking only about safe subjects. We went from cautious with each other to more relaxed and more open by following the guidelines in The 15-Minute Relationship Fix.
TIM AND ANDREA, married 16 years
The
15-Minute
Relationship
Fix
A Clinically-Proven Strategy That Will
Repair and Strengthen Your Love Life
Joel Block, Ph.D.
VIRGINIA BEACH
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The 15-Minute Relationship Fix:
A Clinically-Proven Strategy That
Will Repair and Strengthen Your Love Life
by Joel Block, Ph.D.
Copyright 2018 Joel Block, Ph.D.
ISBN 978-1-63393-601-0
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Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things dont matter at all, because once you are Real you cant be ugly, except to people who dont understand.
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO,
The Velveteen Rabbit
Other books by Joel Block, Ph.D.
Joel Block, Ph.D. has written more than twenty books on love and sex, and has had several TV appearances, including national morning news shows. Dr. Block lives in Huntington, New York.
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INTRODUCTION
Ive written The 15-Minute Relationship Fix because I am convinced, after decades of working with couples, that quiet acts of omissionkeeping little shame-based secrets from each othercan damage a marriage. The 15-Minute Relationship Fix is for everyone who yearns for an intimate relationship and wonders why it seems so elusive.
It is for couples who are experiencing emptiness and loneliness in their relationship and dream of rediscovering the deep intimacy that existed in the early days. And it is for people (even if not currently in a relationship) who are interested in boosting their powers of relatingto anyone!
I make it a practice to avoid suggestions for couples that I have not tried in my own relationship. In this instance, my wife and I did the Emotional Conference you are about to learn about every week consistently for two years. It unequivocally strengthened our marriage and helped us grow as individuals as well.
The Emotional Conference may appear to be just another gimmick. Far from it! It is a powerful experience. When practiced over time, it is like going to a health club for your self-regard. It will build emotional muscle and self-confidence as your partners love grows.