The Five Core Conversations for Couples 1st editon by David Bulitt, Julie Bulitt 1510746137 9781510746138

1. Connection is Your Lubrication

2. The Garage Will Get Dirty

3. Fix the Roof

4. Use Your Oxygen Mask

5. The RV

6. I Don’t Give a Shit about the Dry Cleaning

7. Silence Is Not Golden

8. It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It

9. If It Won’t Matter, Don’t Say It

10. I Think I Can, I Know We Can

Couple’s Kickstarters

The Second Core: Money, Money, Money

1. Fun, Fun, Fun till Reality Takes Your T-Bird Away

2. You Canceled My Newspaper?

3. Learn to Drive before You’re Sixty-Five

4. A Balance of Power

5. Don’t Wait for the Repo Man

6. Don’t Bank the Bitching

7. Harvard

8. Cash and Kids

9. The Swimming Pool

Couple’s Kickstarters

The Third Core: Parents and Partners

1. The Adoption Option

2. Pass the Trash

3. Voted off the Island

4. Make It, Take It

5. Jesus Joins the Family

6. No One Sends You Dinner When Your Kid Is in the Psych Ward

7. Sticks and Stones

8. Addiction Finds Us

9. Ride in the Same Ambulance

10. Letters to Our Daughter

11. To Our Other Three

Couple’s Kickstarters

The Fourth Core: Bumping and Grinding

1. It’s Not a Budget Item

2. Tussies

3. That’s Not My Finger

4. Is That All There Is?

5. A Hitch in Your Giddyup

6. To Porn or Not to Porn

7. Is There Even Such a Thing?

8. I Don’t Need Another Job

9. Two Minutes and a Tissue

Couple’s Kickstarters

The Fifth Core: It’s a Balancing Act

1. Costco

2. Cussing to Kissing

3. Assbook

4. More or Less

5. The Minivan

6. Bumper Cars

7. Stay out of My Tub

8. You’ve Got to Have Friends

9. Weekends Away

10. Ruby Slippers

11. The Best Chicken in the Pot I Ever Ate

Couple’s Kickstarters

The Takeaway: On and On

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

Index