Improving Your Relationship For Dummies is your essential guide to being happy with your partner. Whether you want to work through tiresome niggles, iron out potential issues before taking the next step, cope with serious problems, or simply fortify your partnership against the ups and downs of daily life, this reassuring relationship manual provides all the expert advice and practical support you need. Packed with key information on managing change, successful cohabitation, overcoming jealousy and igniting passion, and including worksheets designed to get you and your partner thinking and working together, this is your passport to a loving, communicative relationship that's set to last. Improving Your Relationship For Dummies includes: PART I - PREPARING FOR RELATIONSHIP CHANGE Chapter 1 - Understanding the Economics of Love                       Chapter 2 - Doing a Relationship Inventory                                              Chapter 3 - Developing the Ground Rules of a Successful Relationship PART II - BOOSTING YOUR RELATIONSHIP Chapter 4 - Prioritising Your Relationship                                                Chapter 5 - Doing Oodles of Soppy Stuff                                                       Chapter 6 - The Essentials of Sex                                                                 Chapter 7 - Turning Up the Sexual Thermostat                                            PART III - IMPROVING COMMUNICATION AND RESOLVING CONFLICT Chapter 8 -Establishing the Rules of Effective Communication Chapter 9 - Resolving Conflict                  Chapter 10 - Breaking the Argument Cycle                            PART IV - WORKING THROUGH RELATIONSHIP ISSUES Chapter 11 - Overcoming Day to Day Grumbles                               Chapter 12 - Handling the Bigger Issues                                    Chapter 13 - Managing Major Life Changes                 Chapter 14 - Surviving an Affair                      Chapter 15 - Recognising When it's Over                                 PART V - THE PART OF TENS                    Chapter 16: Ten Rules of Effective Communication Chapter 17: Ten Ways to Ignite Passion  Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Avoid a Row  Chapter 19: Ten Great Expectations for Couples APPENDIX                                                                                                                                            Worksheets for couples to work through together to assess the areas of their relationship they want to work on and resolve conflict.