An attention-deficit-disorder expert and couples' therapist outline strategies on how to restore communication and connection in a troubled relationship in spite of hectic lifestyles, providing scripts and detailed advice for repairing estrangements through short daily practices.

Modern issues in intimacy. The anatomy of modern love ; Your attention; please? ; Interrupted; everything ; Making time to connect ; Distracters and organizers ; Seemingly selfish ; The big struggle ; Resolving the problems of distraction. Struggle stoppers ; Download overload ; Eliminate toxic worry ; When your spouse has true ADD ; When your spouse feels like your child ; The new world of affairs ; Time for sex ; Just how neat must a person be? ; Managing anger and frustration -- Promoting passionate connection. Conation : an unfamiliar key to empathy ; Special-ize ; Building romance ; The unexpected gift ; Finding hope ; What makes it worthwhile ; Ten reasons not to get divorced, ten reasons to get divorced, forty ways to make your marriage great -- Thirty minutes, thirty days : a workbook for modern marriage.