Enlightened Marriage: The 5 Transformative Stages Of Relationships And Why The Best Is Still To Come - Softcover

--Iyanla Vanzant, author of Trust: Mastering The Four Essentials. Host of Iyanla Fix My Life on OWN.

I ve known and appreciated Jed s work for more than forty years. The Enlightened Marriage will be of great help for couples as well as singles who are looking for their soul-mate. It gives you the tools you need to succeed in love. It will be particularly helpful for people over forty, but everyone will learn things they didn t know about men, women, sex, and love. I highly recommend this book.

John Gray, author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

"If you want more joy in your relationship, Jed Diamond can show you the way. Whether you are married and your relationship needs some help, or you are single and wanting to find real, lasting love, The Enlightened Marriage is the book for you.

Chip Conley, New York Times bestselling author of Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness

"In this beautiful book, Jed Diamond conjoins the strength we derive from our most intimate and important relationship with our capacity to cultivate purpose and meaning, and pay our passions forward. This rendering takes 'doing well by doing good' to a whole new level, and we are honored to figure in the telling of it."

-- David Katz, M.D., MPH, Director, Yale University Prevention Research Center and Catherine S. Katz, PhD, Founder Cuisinicity.com

"If you breathe air and have a prefrontal cortex (i.e. you re human), this should be required reading. To our brains, every issue is a relationship issue on a continuum from 100% love to 100% fear. In other words, fix your relationship issues and you fix every issue. Dr. Diamond s new book, The Enlightened Marriage, is a wonderful guide for healing."

--Alexander Loyd, Ph.D, N.D., #1 international bestselling author of The Healing Code and The Love Code

Understanding the five dynamic stages of your relationship can save your sanity as well as your marriage. Jed Diamond applies 40 years of wisdom to help you find real remedies and relief for the real-life issues all couples must face. This is a must-read. Get a copy for yourself and your partner.

Pat Love, Ed.D., co-author, You re Tearing Us Apart: Twenty Ways We Wreck Our Relationships and Strategies to Repair Them

The Enlightened Marriage does more than inspire us with the power of two. It gives us concrete tools such as reframing incompatibility as an opportunity to deepen love; recalling traumas of the past to clarify the real challenges of the present, thus deepening our love rather than repeating another journey from "in love" to losing love. Essential reading.

--Dr. Warren Farrell, author, Why Men Are the Way they Are and The Myth of Male Power

The Enlightened Marriage is a compassionate and powerful guide to making a marriage last. Dr. Diamond enlivens the science of marriage with very readable language and wraps his wisdom around case studies gleaned from his decades of clinical experience with couples. I highly recommend this book.

--Michael Gurian, author of Lessons of Lifelong Intimacy and The Wonder of Aging

Jed Diamond explains in crystal clear detail how marriages that look to be crumbling can instead be put on a new, vastly improved footing. Don t drop out of your marriage opt for renewed, lasting love instead!

--Eric Maisel, Ph.D., family therapist, author 20 Communication Tips for Families

Jed Diamond draws on his decades of experience as a marriage and family counselor to provide an invaluable tool for forging the healthiest marriages possible. The Enlightened Marriage offers practical and inspiring guidance for achieving mutually enhancing, sustainable intimacy. While people of all ages will benefit, this book will be particularly useful to men and women over 40 who want more joy and passion in their relationship as they age. I highly recommend it.

--Michael Dowd, author of Thank God for Evolution, and host of The Future Is Calling Us to Greatness"

Raw with honesty, deeply compassionate and wisely human, Jed Diamond s new book delivers a road map to help any midlife couple find the love they long to have. This book is a wonderful guide for all couples to re-envision a distant, lonely, or failing marriage, as an opportunity to embark on mutual self-healing. It helps you realize the deeply rewarding marriage you ve always longed to have.

Donna Jackson Nakazawa, author of Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology and How You Can Heal

Maintaining strong, loving relationships is the key to a long, healthy, and happy life. Jed Diamond uses his experience as a therapist and the latest science to provide a roadmap to a successful marriage. Now is the time to improve your marriage--find out how in The Enlightened Marriage. This is a wonderful book, perfectly practical and fun to read.

--Paul J. Zak, PhD, Author of: The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity

Wow! I just finished Jed Diamonds' new book, The Enlightened Marriage, and I feel hopeful and empowered. After 13 years into a third marriage, with 5 children and busy careers, I sometimes fear a future of boredom and settling to keep an aging partnership alive. Diamond's new work creates a map for an inspired, dynamic future of expanding intimacy and love. As always, Diamond masterfully weaves science and spirituality in this book, as he encourages readers to slay the past demons that sabotage current relationships while at the same time pushing them to dream bigger than they ever have to find a future full of romance, passion and mastery.

-- Dr.JE Ellington author of Slippery When Wet: One Woman's Journey Through the Mystery of Sex

Jed Diamond s new book, The Enlightened Marriage, is a lifetime achievement. Jed has summarized and synthesized his accumulated wisdom about men, women, and relationship from forty years of counseling and more importantly, forty years of being married, and working out the difficult kinks that crop up in every marriage. If you want the shortest possible route to lasting love, deeper love, more committed and more spiritually fulfilling love, read this book and follow Jed s guidelines. Use this book as a foundation to build a house of lifetime love in your own relationship.

-- Lion Goodman, Co-founder, Luminary Leadership Institute, author of Creating On Purpose.

"Jed's done it again. His book, The Irritable Male Syndrome gave me great hope and now he's created, The Enlightened Marriage, another guide that's personally perfect for me and I highly recommend it for you."

----John W. Travis, MD, co-author Wellness Workbook

Jed Diamond has written a beautiful and deeply honest book. This is a roadmap based on Jed s more than 40 years experience as a marriage and family counselor and his own marriage of 36 years. Jed helps us move through and beyond the place where relationships usually break down and into the terrain where we find our real gifts and fulfillment. So often we think of love as a pleasant or euphoric feeling that comes over us. Jed offers us an alternative--that love is something we can practice, something we can become more accomplished at every day. Everybody will benefit from this book.

--Arjuna Ardagh, Co-Author (with John Gray) of Conscious Men: A Practical Guide to Develop 12 Qualities of the New Masculinity and Better Than Sex

I loved reading this book. It will open a lot of eyes for people hovering in the realm of 'grass is greener.' The Enlightened Marriage is an honest and well-researched look under the hood of long term relationships. Through the lens of Diamond's 5 Stages of Marriage I was able to put my mind, body, and heart fully back where they belong... in love with my wife of 28 years."

--Barry Friedman, One of the 4-time World Juggling Champion, Raspyni Brothers, and author of I Love Me More Than Sugar.

As a Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice for 45 years who has been married to the same woman for nearly 40 years, I feel well-equipped to state that Jed Diamond has hit the bull s eye with The Enlightened Marriage. His presentation of the current research reveals and clarifies what it takes that actually empowers relationships to go the distance. Jed s latest book is truly your road map for pinpointing the twists and turns and the ups and downs of committed relationships. The Enlightened Marriage provides the wise guidance needed now to help you navigate the full length of your spiritual journey as a couple.

Stephen J. Johnson, Ph.D., author of The Sacred Path: The Way of the Spiritual Warrior; Journey to Mindful Manhood.

Dr. Diamond s book offers an amazing opportunity to greatly enhance your life. Based on four decades of experience, observation, skill and knowledge of a most caring, insightful, knowledgeable and intuitive human being and mentor, this is the book you have been waiting for. The information on the power of two and how you two can change the world are well-worth the price of the book alone and you ll get ten other chapters as well. This is a fantastic book.

--John Jeavons, Executive Director of the globally active non-profit Ecology Action

This wonderful book will help millions of men and the women who love them. Jed s five stages of marriage clearly outlines the pitfalls couples can fall into, and, more importantly, how to successfully climb out of the depths to have a great relationship. The principles are easy to understand and the techniques are effective, so that any couple can use this book as a manual to keep their relationships thriving.

Mark Schillinger, Founder, Challenging Teenage Sons & Young Men s Ultimate Weekend

Read this book if you want to save your current marriage. Read this book if you must start over and prefer not to be among the 25 percent of the Boomer generation destined to become elder orphans, condemned to lonely final years.

--Brent Green, author, Marketing to Leading-Edge Baby Boomers and Generation Reinvention