How to withstand the storm: Fundamental rules to make your marriage work again is based on instructions for modern-day relationship. It leads you, step-by-step, through the key skills of getting, giving, and having, teaching you how to get what you're after in your marriage, how to give your partner what he or she needs from you and to sustain and enjoy the closeness that healthy getting and giving offers. Why do today's relationships need a new guideline to follow? Simply, because we are in a time of immense change. The roles of men and women have significantly evolved, and so have our expectations about relationships. We have never sought more from one another-more passion, more support, more connection. But our new desires have not been matched by a comparable new set of skills, and for most of us, whatever we learned growing up about relationships is simply not sophisticated enough to give all that we hope for. Am I saying that we now need to be actively trained if we want to have a satisfying relationship? Yes. That is exactly what I'm saying. In this very book, you will study the counsel, generated from years of experience and interviews with a huge number of couples, on how to turn your bad marriage around, reignite that lost fire, help you love your partner more, and many more. Thomas Lennon has been helping individuals establish more satisfying relationships for more than 20 years- with spouses, children, parents, bosses, and more. He concentrates on the problems that bring you to therapy and she seeks to discover solutions in a timely way. People ask: what is your orientation? He calls on numerous approaches in his toolset, including psychoanalysis, family systems, cognitive behavioral, emotionally oriented, psychodramatic, and storytelling. He builds the method that will be most valuable to the particular person and their challenges. Actively engaging with clients, Thomas collaborates with them using his knowledge with the client's expertise on their particular difficulties. Through numerous years of practice, he deals with anxiety and depression, grief and loss, sexual dysfunction, marital therapy, separation and divorce, trauma, and self-image. He loves to share thoughts on how couples can rejuvenate their love lives in and out of the bedroom. He is a huge believer in living actively and urges couples to adopt this functional attitude in their life as well. He believes that every couple may convert their relationship into a better, healthier one by taking significant and wholehearted action.