Marriage and Lasting Relationships with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder)
Successful Strategies for Couples or Counselors

Marriage counselors provide a needed service. Self help books on fixing marriages do not. Add in the quirk of one of the partners having autism and the book will be mostly a self-help misfiring. The author clearly thought it was important to label a person autistic (she uses the word ‘Aspergers’) if......more

I did not get any strategies from this book. It just made me realize my thoughts and feelings were normal for our relationship. At times it felt too simple and not very useful in making things better.......more

From Netgalley for a review: If you suspect you or your partner is an Aspie, or you find stories of people's relationships and how they were changed once they found out they were an Aspie and then used the strategies in this book to save their relationship, then this book will probably be very useful......more

While the book contained some interesting insights, I felt it blamed the autistic partner for all the problems of the relationship. It makes out that the neurotypical partner is suffering injustice at the hands of an autistic idiot. A strengths-based approach would have been more useful. In the seco......more

This title is written by a couples counselor who has an intimate yet detatched understanding os people on the Autism spectrum. There are practical strategies included fo managing the relationship as well as good ideas to improve communication. A friend who is Aspie said he felt the author had pinpoi......more