Mad About Us

You Used to Be Madly in Love--But Now You're Just Mad!
Has the intimacy you once hoped for in your marriage become a long-forgotten dream? Is your relationship filled with hurt, frustration, and anger? Do you feel misunderstood, rejected, disrespected, or unheard? In Mad About Us discover how to deal with anger in ways that will bring you closer to each other instead of further apart. Learn how to recognize and eliminate unhealthy expressions of anger. Find out how to harness your anger energy, get to the root cause, and share it with your spouse in ways that increase understanding and trust.

Through their counseling practice and their own marriage, Gary and Carrie Oliver have found that the vast majority of marriage problems have unresolved anger at their core. Couples who were once mad about each other have become just plain mad. Over the past twenty years they've helped many couples discover that healthy anger and healthy conflict can actually be pathways to greater trust and deeper intimacy as they become freed from the fears that keep them isolated and unknown. You too can go from being mad at each other back to being madly in love with each other. Join the Olivers for a surprising journey through anger and healthy conflict to the intimacy and passion you long for.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

1. And They Lived Happily Ever After
2. Designed to Experience Intimacy
3. Barriers to Intimacy
4. The Emotional Side of Intimacy
5. From Intimacy to Anger
6. The Myths of Anger
7. The Many Faces of Anger
8. Making Anger Work for You
9. Intimate Conflict: A Pathway to Intimacy
10. Seven Simple Steps Through Conflict to Intimacy
11. Forgiveness: The Healing Oil of Intimacy
12. Diving Deep Into an Intimate Marriage