Your Relationship Survival Guide

Baby Shock!

A relationship guide from Relate for when children enter your lives

Baby Shock! is a great guide to seeing beyond your child and discovering your partner again.

For latest, up-to-date advice on becoming a new parent, see Baby Shock!

...a relationship survival guide for parents.

Do read Baby Shock!, a relationship survival guide for new parents.

Relate (Author) Relate is a national federated charity with 75 years' experience of supporting the nation’s relationships. 
 
Relate is governed by a Board of Trustees, all of them volunteers, who are deeply committed to realising our vision of a future in which healthy and happy relationships form the heart of a thriving society. Elizabeth Martyn (Author) Elizabeth Martyn is a relationships expert and author of Babyshock: Your Relationship Survival Guide, also part of the Relate series. She is agony aunt for mumsnet.com

Babyshock! is for any parents who have forgotten what it's like to be a couple because their children have taken over their lives. The experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and caring for children are wonderful, but also put a great deal of pressure on a relationship. This book identifies the pressures and provides excellent practical and emotional strategies so that you can enjoy parenthood while also nurturing your own relationship with each other. 
 
This immensely practical guide will help you: 
- Create time for yourself 
- Improve your sex life 
- Manage the demands of work and family 
- Work through disagreements and agree on how you will bring up the children 
 
Packed with questionnaires, check lists and anecdotes, Babyshock! will help you keep your relationship alive and get the very best out of family life, together.

Elizabeth Martyn

Seven crucial questions to answer before you say 'I do'

Are you thinking about marriage, but afraid of ending up in the divorce statistics? Are you wondering if you're ready and able to make a public, lifelong commitment? Before You Say 'I Do' recognises that marriage takes courage, energy and self-knowledge, and leads you through a series of key questions about your relationship to help you discover if you have what it takes to make your marriage a lifelong success. These include:--What are your expectations of marriage?--What does commitment mean to you?--Can you be sexually compatible for a lifetime?--Do you both want children?--How will you cope with in-laws? Drawing on the expertise of Relate counsellors, and supported by checklists, questionnaires and case histories, this book will help you to examine your hopes and fears about marriage. It will lead you to a deeper understanding of how your relationship works and ultimately give you the insight to build the bedrock of a marriage with real staying power.

Elizabeth Martyn

Books by Elizabeth Martyn

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