Fighting for Your Marriage

What it is about

Fighting for Your Marriage is the public book of the PREP program. Markman, Stanley, and Blumberg focus on how couples handle conflict, danger signs in talk, commitment, expectations, and friendship. The speaker-listener structure is offered as a way to slow escalation so the issue can be heard. Editions vary in page and exercise; the core is the research-based communication program, not a personality quiz.

Questions it can answer

• What talk patterns does this program treat as danger signs?
• How is the speaker-listener turn meant to be used, and when is it a poor fit?
• How do the authors connect commitment with the decision to handle conflict rather than only with staying married?

What you will not find

• A guarantee that one technique fits violence or affairs
• Attachment-style diagnosis as the organising idea
• Legal advice on separation