The Couples Playbook: Relationships Are a Team Sport, Set Yours Up to Win

Whether you're married, deepening your commitment to your partner, or single and dating someone new, if you want to ditch the drama in your relationship and become fabulously fulfilled, The Couple's Playbook is essential reading. Brain-based relationship and life coach Lisa Marini has incorporated incredible insights from the most advanced research on the human brain into a powerful technique for communicating and negotiating strategies that bring couples into alignment over everything from decisions about everyday routines to tackling high-pressure situations. Like the training programs and practice sessions used by professional athletes to enhance skills and ensure effective teamwork, she'll prepare you for success. In this book, you'll learn about:The mindset of champions and the ways they show up for their teammates. Team huddles, structured conversations for agreeing on plans daily, weekly, and even on the fly. Reviewing the "game tape" and deciding what could be done better. Helping your partner win their most desired "emotional trophies." Designing sixteen big "life plays" for your unique couple's "playbook." regulating your brain state so that you are receptive, not reactive. The FACTS method explaining why you get triggered when you do. Healthy conflict and how to rapidly repair unintended damage.