The Commuter Marriage: Keep Your Relationship Close While You're Far Apart

by Tina B. Tessina and Jane Wong

Long-distance relationships can be difficult. Whether you're dating, long-married, one of you has been promoted to a different city, or you live a bi-coastal lifestyle, the information and guidelines... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598694324
• ISBN13: 9781598694321
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Tina helps take the guesswork out of long-distance/commuter relationships

Tina has written a book that is accessible and appropriate for a variety of lifestyles. My partner and I are not yet married, but are in a committed, three-year relationship. I will move to his town in about a year, when my last child leaves for college. He lives an hour away and is responsible 50% of the time for his two children, 12 and 15. Our schedules are often hectic and difficult to coordinate. "The Commuter Marriage" provided us with resources and strategies to face our challenges head-on. Through her use of case studies involving couples in different situations, my partner and I were able to find examples that 'spoke' to us, and with which we were able to identify. I believe we will not only survive the next year, but we will thrive! I highly recommend "The Commuter Marriage" to anyone in a long-distance/commuter marriage or committed relationship. Brenda Lange

What experts say about The Commuter Marriage

The Commuter Marriage: Keep Your Relationship Close While You're Far Apart What the experts are saying about The Commuter Marriage: "When you get married, you promise to love and cherish 'for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health'...but what about 'for near or far?' When the circumstances of life put a bit of distance between husband and wife, Tina Tessina provides the perfect insights and solutions for keeping close across the miles. Couples who sense a challenge in their long-distance situations will learn how to communicate and keep their equality in their home, handle anxiety and jealousies, get creative and flexible in finding solutions...and then those Welcome Homes are all the sweeter! Whether you travel for work or just keep opposite shifts, the greatest gift you can get for your marriage is this book!" -- Sharon Naylor, author of The Bride's Diplomacy Guide and Love Bets. "Tina Tessina's The Commuter Marriage is the guidebook for which so many couples have been longing. Always practical, logical, and extremely sympathetic, Dr. Tessina lays it all out - the points to consider, the do's and don'ts, the potential pitfalls and, yes, even the advantages of this very modern phenomenon. No one should even think about making arrangements for a long distance relationship without her book in hand." - Isadora Alman, MFT Board certified sex therapist and author of Doing It: Real People Having Really Good Sex. "An inspiring, insightful book for husbands and wives who desire a fuller, more satisfying and healthier relationship. It offers a variety of practical solutions to assist and empower married couples in creating a productive, gratifying and meaningful lifestyle that works best for their family. Every married couple should read it!" -- Hogan Hilling, The Modern Mom's Guide to Dads "As a public safety psychologist, I work with police and fire fighter families as they struggle with shift work and emergency deployments. Help is on the way. Dr. Tessina's easy-to-read new book, The Commuter Marriage: Keep Your Relationship Close While You're Far Apart is full of sage advice, tips, and skill building exercises for a range of topics from the practicalities of managing time, money and childcare to the emotional challenges of intimacy, communication, and jealousy. Along the way, she shows the reader how real couples cope with a variety of long and short term separations." -- Ellen Kirschman, Ph.D. author of I Love a Cop: What Police Families Need to Know and I Love a Fire Fighter: What the Family Needs to Know "More and more couples find themselves married (or together) while spending significant amounts of time apart. Problems with childcare, intimacy, emotional support and household management can make "commuter marriages" difficult -- but relationship author, columnist and private-practice therapist Tina Tessina has seen it all. "In The Commuter Marriage, Dr. Tessina presents practical exercises and commonsense