Publisher's Synopsis
FIVE STAR LOVE is a powerful new way to help you stay in love through the four stages that challenge every marriage. Challenge #1 comes about nine months after the honeymoon when the infatuation high fades and you question your feelings for each other; Challenge #2 is when the kids are born and the business side of marriage brings new demands, causing irritations, frustrations and resentment; Challenge # 3 is when the kids leave home and you are left to focus on each other again but discover you don't really know the person you've been married to all these years; Challenge #4 is when you retire and realize you must rely on each other to manage time, money and health issues. FIVE STAR LOVE shows a new way to meet these four challenges no matter which one you're facing. Authors Dennis and Mary Lou Green aren't psychologists or marriage therapists. They're lifelong entrepreneurs. What do they know about marriage? They've been married and worked together for 39 years, inventing new products and marketing them to thousands of customers around the world. In the process of working together, they discovered a powerful secret for staying deeply in love. The idea is simple: Imagine your marriage is a business and your true love is the most important customer you will ever have. Take them for granted and you'll lose them. This is an objective new way to think about marriage. It was born when the Green's recognized that satisfying each other's needs is a lot like satisfying a customer's needs. They discovered that the more they showed each other how much they cared, the more successful their relationship. It sounds so simple, but there's more to the idea than a slogan. Building a FIVE STAR MARRIAGE means "developing the habit" of passionately caring for each other. At the core of this book are their Ten Habits of Passionate Customer Care. Mastering these ten habits will help you stay in love no matter what challenges you face in your marriage. Long-term success in business comes from consistently delivering a great product and following it up with superior customer care. This also happens to be a prescription for staying in love. Granted, on the surface customer care doesn't sound romantic, but the truth is marriages fail for the same reason businesses fail. They stop showing their customers how much they care. In FIVE STAR LOVE you'll discover that romance in marriage is sparked by the same values business customers care about, including respect, honesty, fair play, trust, reciprocation and satisfying basic needs. The Greens spent the past ten years studying the works of top psychologists, relationship counselors, marriage therapists and church pastors. They combined that knowledge with their experience working with thousands of customers from around the world and distilled it all into FIVE STAR LOVE and The Ten Habits of Passionate Customer Care. Start today. Master the habit of passionately caring for each other and discover the difference it makes in your marriage.
