Relationships Relearned:
A Guide to Achieving Healthy and Successful Relationship

Relationships with significant others go through cycles: seeking, commitment, withdrawal and back to dating again. Couples who practice trust, respect and communication achieve healthy and successful relationships. They end their relationship cycle at commitment.

Relationships Relearned: A Guide to Achieving Healthy and Successful Relationships is written by a licensed clinical social worker with over four decades of experience working with people who want to make their relationships to be healthy and successful.

With explanations and relatable examples of each concept, Relationships Relearned will be by your side as you navigate each of the relationship cycles.

Information for you in the seeking phase:

• Tips for understanding what needs to be present for a healthy and successful relationship
• Identifying your emotional baggage and how to get rid of it
• The do’s and don’ts of starting a new relationship
• Tips for rebound relationships, for dating after a divorce, for your senior years, and after the death of a significant other

Information for you in the commitment phase:

• Awareness of the four critical stressors every relationship faces
• Recognizing how pets and other people affect your relationship
• How situations within and out of your control influence what happens within your relationship
• Expecting stressful intervals at certain times during a relationship

Information for you in the withdrawal phase:

• Recognizing characteristics of an unhealthy relationship
• A checklist for red flags in a relationship
• Understanding how addiction, domestic abuse, and infidelity affect relationships
• What to think about before, during and after “the break-up”

First Edition, Published July, 2022
Second Edition, Published February, 2024