Oakland University professor pens book to help parents navigate children’s love relationships

Whether you’re a parent meeting your adult child’s partner for the first time or helping your adolescent child deal with their first heartbreak, Secrets to Surviving Your Children’s Love Relationships: A Guide for parents may be just the medicine the doctor ordered.

That medicine comes in the form of advice from The Love Doctor®, Terri Orbuch, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Oakland University and nationally known relationship expert. In Secrets to Surviving Your Children’s Love Relationships: A Guide for parents, Dr. Orbuch offers parents a step-by-step path for navigating the major milestones of their children’s love relationships.

Secrets to Surviving Your Children’s Love Relationships: A Guide for parents combines the latest research, with Dr. Orbuch’s decades of experience, to offer practical tips for parents to guide their children in choosing healthy, happy relationships.

Some of these simple, age- and gender-neutral strategies include:

• Tips for teaching your children the traits of healthy love relationships.
• How to ask the right questions and affirm your child’s strengths, while acknowledging their blind spots, when it comes to choosing a partner.
• How and when to shift to a less confrontational approach to earn your child’s trust when it comes to discussing romantic relationships.
• How to discuss how money affects relationships with your child, with a tailored approach for each age group.
• Teaching your children how to distinguish between love and lust.
• How to support your children during heartbreak and other love challenges, and much more.

“Simply put, I love the topic of relationships, and I think helping people improve their relationships with science-based information is so important, Dr. Orbuch says. “I have written books on how to improve long-term relationships and how to find love again after love lost. This book seemed like a natural next step based on questions, concerns and challenges I hear over and over from parents when it comes to their children’s relationships.”

Learn more about the book at purchase a copy at Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Surviving-Your-Childrens-Relationships-ebook/dp/B09S2JGLVZ