Addressing a common destructive pattern in marriages this guide helps couplesreduce the distance in their marriage thereby reducing the emotional baggageproject... » 

Addressing a common destructive pattern in marriages this guide helps couplesreduce the distance in their marriage thereby reducing the emotional baggageprojected onto the children. When a marriage drifts apart spouses tend todrift toward their children creating an emotional burden that causes childrento act out. Making children the center of family lives seems child friendly butit creates demanding entitled children and starves the marriage of intimacy.Instructing spouses on how to identify the ways they unknowingly distance fromeach other this book show how to prevent the slow drift toward divorce. Puttingmarriage first also reduces the temptation for parents to look to the childrento fulfill our intimacy needs freeing children to grow into their own identityand learn selfreliance as they pursue their own passions. This guide helpscouples balance family relationships to recapture the joy of marriage and takepride in contented selfreliant children. «