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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take

Making Marriage Simple

Harville Hendrix · 2013
80/100
👍 Worth It

Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt do something genuinely useful here — they use their own near-divorce as a candid case study while walking couples through the core ideas of Imago therapy in plain, sometimes funny language. The chapter-end exercises give it real practical legs, not just inspiration. It works best as a companion to actual therapy rather than a standalone fix, but as relationship books go, this one earns its place on the nightstand.

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substance80
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originality72
accuracy78
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age_fit85
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