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Staying Together

Staying Together

  • Author : William Glasser, M.D.
  • Pub. Date : January 1995
  • Format : Softcover / Hardcover
  • Pages : 133
  • Price : $9 / $12

Shortly before cancer claimed her life in 1992, Dr. Glasser’s wife of 46 years told him to find “someone with whom he would be happy.” Inspired by these loving words of advice, Dr. Glasser shares a deeply personal guide suited for those in search of an intimate partner and for those looking for ways to enhance a marriage. This story has a happy ending. In the course of writing this book Dr. Glasser became engaged to Carleen Floyd. They remain happily married since July of 1995.

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“We are involved with the wrong mate and he or she must change for us to be happy. But we remain the same, our mate doesn’t change, and our unhappiness continues. What we have to understand is that the only life we can control is our own and, in almost all instances, we can choose to change. “Depending on what changes we make in our lives, there is a strong possibility that our mate also may choose to change. And if he or she changes in the right direction, our marriages can become much better. Therefore, we can change only our own lives; we cannot change what others do. It is to this vital truth that this book is addressed.” – William Glasser, M.D.

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