We had actually just decided to not be separated about 10 years ago when we bought this book. I got the book, the audio cassette and the workbook. Because we only had one workbook, we did our writing assignments in spiral notebooks. Each night when we went to bed, we'd listen to the audio track and then we'd do the homework. As a homeschooling family, we joked that we had homeschooled our marriage counseling. it worked, we just celebrated 15 years.

It's easy to overlook relationship issues and before you know it, your relationship could be in self-destruct mode. Dr Phil offers sound advice in making changes to yourself as well as how you deal with your signifigant-other. It is an interactive book, with plenty of tests and self-analysis, which both you and your spouse can use to reacquaint yourselves with one another.

Relationship Rescue is a great book for learning how to build a solid foundation to build on for a healthy relationship. As always Dr Phil takes a direct straight forward approach letting you know you have to start with yourself before you can look outside. I highly recommend this book before you get into a relationship. I enjoyed the fact that he had the step by step and questions to help you examine what was going wrong, where your relationship was at and so on. Although the steps are extensive, they can be broken down into more manageable steps. If a person actually follows through it will really help them take a good themselves and their relationship. Just remember that some relationships aren’t worth saving and also it takes both parties to make it work. When I read the book I wasn’t in any relationship, and I simply read it to read it. I learned a few good things about myself that I had not realized before. This book helped me stay clear of relationships that were no good for me and determine what I was looking for before I found. I know relationships take work and that both parties have to work at it. I also know that you have to learn to communicate with each other instead of at each other.

I purchased the clearance audio book version at a local chain bookseller and I could not be any happier with my purchase.

Dr. Phil takes a no nonsense approach to rescuing even the most horrid of situations. Even though my husband and I were not experiencing marital problems to the extreme effect of cheating and name calling, we still were in a bit of a rut.

One of our main issues was that we weren't taking personal responsibility for our own actions and were trying to blame each other. This book helped us recognize this and address it. For that I am truly grateful.

I think as long as you are open to an outside opinion, this could really help your relationship.

Dr. Phil makes a lot of sense and gives some great tips for getting a relationship back on track. He talks about evaluation and negotiation. However, I can’t help but think that people who have so little regard or respect for each other in the first place would take the time or have the awareness to revive the relationship using these methods.
If a couple is to the point of cheating and calling each other filthy names, can concepts like “taking personal responsibility” and “embracing personal truth” have much meaning? I mean if my partner and I are so far in the ditch, are we really going to have the desire to “escape wrong thinking? I read the book and I’m not even sure I know what that means.
I mean, if someone can just up and dump the mother or father of their children, are these exercises going to work, even if the person agrees to try? I tend to doubt it. I also cannot understand how the person who has been wronged would want to.