Don't Sweat the Small Stuff in Love: Simple Ways to Nurture and Strengthen Your Relationships

Featured in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story starring Heather Locklear, premiering on Lifetime

Form, maintain, and repair meaningful romantic relationships and feel like newlyweds every day with this simple, stress-free approach to love.

He's helped 12 million people reduce the stress at home and at work with the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff. With this companion book, Richard Carlson partnered with Kristine, his wife of fourteen years, to create an easy, stress-free way to enhance personal relationships.

While depression, heartache, and anger are associated with love relationships, stress is rarely identified as a problem. Yet stress is often a factor in failing relationships. In these one hundred brief, beautifully written essays, the authors show readers how not to overreact to a loved one's criticism, how to appreciate your spouse in new ways, how to get past old angers, and many other ways to improve and increase the joy and pleasure that can and should be part of any relationship.

Richard and Kristine Carlson illustrate key strategies for creating a lasting connection, including:

• Don't come home frazzled
• Don't sweat the occasional criticism
• Become a world-class listener
• Look out for each other

Author: Richard Carlson, Kristine Carlson
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 10/18/2000
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 6.52h x 5.62w x 0.68d
ISBN13: 9780786884209
ISBN10: 0786884207
BISAC Categories:
- Family & Relationships | Love & Romance
- Self-Help | Personal Growth | Happiness
- Family & Relationships | Marriage & Long Term Relationships

About the Author
During his life, Richard Carlson, Ph.D, was considered one of the foremost experts in happiness and stress reduction in the United States and around the world and was a frequent featured guest on many national television and radio programs. Don't Sweat the Small Stuff continued to be a publishing phenomenon with over twenty titles in the brand franchise, two of which were co-authored and authored with his beloved wife, Kris. He died of a pulmonary embolism in December 2006, at the age of forty-five.