cover image Married to Distraction: Restoring Intimacy and Strengthening Your Marriage in an Age of Interruption

Married to Distraction: Restoring Intimacy and Strengthening Your Marriage in an Age of Interruption

Edward M. Hallowell, Sue George Hallowell. Ballantine, $25 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-345-50799-0

How to marry him—and stay married.

Married to Distraction: Restoring Intimacy and Strengthening Your Marriage in an Age of Interruption Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. , and Sue George Hallowell , with Melissa Orlov Ballantine , $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-345-50799-0

It is remarkable that a couple so well versed in the woes of their patients’ marriages has the capacity for the kind of optimism and clear-sighted wisdom that readers will find in these pages. The Hallowells (he teaches at Harvard Medical School and heads the Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health; she is a couples’ therapist) examine the new and hard-to-resist stresses placed on the modern-day marriage with a compassionate focus on forgiveness and self-reflection. Those in search of practical, concrete advice for creating and saving healthy marriages will find what they need. (Mar.)