Fire up your communication skills : get people to listen, understand, and give you what you want! / Bob Smith

1 Learn the Nuggets of Life
* 2 The Communication Class
* 3 Now You Take the Survey
* 4 Survey Results for Men and Women
* 5 Transition to the Five-to-One Ratio
* 6 How Does This All Work for Me?
7 A Broadway Play
8 Give Clear and Direct Signals
9 Don't Take the Bait
10 Stop Holding
11 Practice Present-Moment Living
12 Set Healthy Boundaries
13 Where Are You on Your Own Personal Agenda?
14 What Does That Mean?
15 What Do You Want to See Happen?
16 How Can I Stop Using Worst-Case Scenarios?
17 Change Brings Change (Sometimes with Pain)
18 You Don't Have to Be a Chameleon
19 The Staff Meeting (Marriage)
* 20 Practice the Art of Conversation
* 21 When Are Men Going to Get IT?
* 22 Recognize and Understand Processing
* 23 Oh Boy, Another Book on My Pillow
24 The "R" Word (Relationship)
25 Establish and Communicate Realistic Expectations
26 Affection Without Sex or Sex Without Affection
27 ATM (How to Make a Deposit in That Special Person's Love Bank)
*28 Nesting
29 Accepting Life on Today's Terms
30 Intuition
31 When Do We Start Having Fun?
32 For the Love of a Dad
33 . . . Equals I Don't Love You (The Formula)
34 What Do You Want From Me?
35 Get a Piece of Each Other's Hide
36 Use the Board If You Want a Man to Fix Something
37 Sex and Other Stuff
38 The Enemy (Children)
39 Boomerang Kids
40 Eat Stress for Breakfast
Nuggets of Life
41 Conquer the Job Interview
42 Wampum (Money)
43 Variable Interest Rate
*44 If You Don't Plan, You Won't Go
45 Be Serendipitous
46 Wedding Colors
47 Flower Therapy
48 Planning Romance
49 Cards and Spoken Gifts
50 Take the Mystery Out of Gifts
Five Nuggets for Successful Relationships
51 How Long Is This Going to Take? Are We There Yet?
52 Peace and Happiness

Includes bibliograpical references and index