5 More Things to Improve Your Marriage

The advanced skills happy couples use—now in 15 minutes.

By: Splash Rivers

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Some marriage problems need more than daily habits.
You can connect every day and still have the same fight every month. You can appreciate each other and still feel like you're building toward nothing. You can love each other deeply and still not know how to raise complex issues without everything exploding.
The basics matter. But sometimes you need to go deeper.
"5 More Things to Improve Your Marriage" picks up where the fundamentals leave off. Drawing on Dr. John Gottman's decades of research, this book gives you advanced tools to address the challenges that daily habits alone can't solve.
Inside, you'll discover:

• The Softened Startup — Why the first 3 minutes predict 96% of conversation outcomes (and how to start difficult talks without triggering defensiveness)
• The Four Horsemen Defense — Identify and defeat criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling before they destroy your marriage
• The Dreams Within Conflict — Why 69% of conflicts are perpetual, and how to dialogue about them without gridlock
• The Influence Practice — Build a true partnership where both voices shape decisions (couples who don't do this have 81% divorce rates)
• The Shared Meaning Map — Create a vision for your marriage with rituals, roles, goals, and values that give your relationship direction

Each chapter includes real-world examples, common mistakes to avoid, and concrete action steps.
This is the companion to "5 Things to Improve Your Marriage"—though it works perfectly as a standalone. Book 1 teaches daily maintenance. This book teaches you to navigate conflict and build meaning together.
Your marriage is worth going deeper.