30 Tips to Healthier Relationships: A guide for couples and anyone else who has relationships to treasure

By Jenny Olin

Looking for concrete, straightforward advice with doable instructions to improve your most treasured relationship? Here it is! 30 clear and concise tips. Most are achievable without actively seeking your partner’s cooperation. Use just one tip successfully and your relationship is destined to improve. Use all thirty and it’s a slam-dunk for a winning relationship.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jenny Olin
• Release date: Nov 22, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452455907

Jenny Olin

Head-over-heels passionate about healthy relationships, Jenny Olin, MSW, LCSW, wants every marriage to succeed. She doesn’t mean limp along or be good enough. She means SUCCEED. She wants every significant relationship to be fulfilling to both people involved. Jenny Olin, a relationship specialist and licensed clinical social worker provides counseling and relationship education to adults. She is the director of Lighted Pathways, a private psychotherapy practice in Saratoga Springs, NY.

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What others are saying

"It's easy to go on automatic pilot in relationships, taking them for granted or falling into unhelpful patterns. Jenny Olin's 30 Tips to Healthier Relationships can serve as a wakeup call, renewing your relationship and making it much better each day. Spend one month using these simple but useful tips and you'll find out for yourself."

- Bill O'Hanlon, LMFT, author, Love is a Verb and Rewriting Love Stories

"Jenny Olin's new book 30 Tips to Healthier Relationships is a must read. It is concise, informative and an easy read. As a pastor I consider it required reading for couples preparing for marriage and others wanting to treasure the relationships they share.

"Jenny flavors her everyday, down-to-earth tips with doable and common sense solutions. The accompanying workbook serves as an invaluable tool to keep you planning and monitoring your daily success.

I can identify with the author's closing remark, 'My passion is creating and keeping healthy relationships. I invite you to make it yours.'

- Reverend Bonita Bates - 38 years creating and keeping a healthy relationship with husband, Rick.

30 Tips to Healthier Relationships:

A guide for couples and anyone else who has relationships to treasure

Jenny Olin, MSW, LCSW

Published by Jenny Olin at Smashwords

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30 Tips to Healthier Relationships:

A guide for couples and anyone else who has relationships to treasure

Copyright 2010 by Jenny Olin

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30 Tips to Healthier Relationships:

A guide for couples and anyone else who has relationships to treasure

Table of Contents

How to use this book

Tip #1: Share appreciations every day about the good you see in others.

Tip #2: Recognize non-verbal ways you are shown appreciation.

Tip #3: When someone is talking to you, focus on what they are saying.

Tip #4: Treat another’s concerns seriously.

Tip #5: Ask permission, and get it, before offering advice.

Tip #6: Practice goodwill.

Tip #7: Go with what you value rather than what you feel.

Tip #8: Watch out for Facebook.

Tip #9: Being right isn’t a priority in personal relationships.

Tip #10: Look for the exceptions to problems.

Tip #11: Be trustworthy.

Tip #12: Avoid blaming.

Tip #13: Look for the best in people.

Tip #14: Take a time out.

Tip #15: If you have a complaint with someone, express it to him or her privately.

Tip #16: Make your most important personal