David Simonsen’s “Relationship Reconnected” is a short but powerful book that can increase the empathy, love, and connection in any relationship. Filled with down-to-earth principles and real-life examples, couples can learn how to know themselves deeply, know their partners deeply, and communicate more effectively. An excellent read!

This book offers some helpful advice for couples that can't stop arguing. However, if you've become disconnected for other reasons, you're not going to find a whole lot to go on within the pages of Relationship Reconnected. The good news is that this is a really quick read and the basic advice applies to everyone. The bad news is that pretty much everything that's recommended can be found in a ton of other books and online articles.

The author doesn't really break any new ground here, but the presentation is well done. Any couple that can't stop arguing may be able to hit the reset button if they read this book and diligently apply the lessons within it.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing an ARC. This review contains my honest, unbiased opinion.

I was very interested in reading this book as communication in our marriage is always something we are working on. I did find that some of it did not pertain able to our situation. I can see how for specific scenarios where the communication issues focus around arguments and anger, this would be very helpful feedback. The other parts about healthy communication were great, but it was definitely not anything I haven't heard before.

I enjoyed that the writing was approachable and non-judgmental and how he included real-life examples of couples that had faced these issues. The exercise and reflection sections added a lot to the book format and made this book helpful fo being introspective about your own relationship and communication.

Thank you to NetGalley and Callisto Media for ad advanced copy of this book.

my husband and i are going through a rough patch so i jumped at the chance to read this. i've honestly been trying to read everything i can get my hands on lately. while i found parts of this interesting, i admit i didn't really find anything new or groundbreaking - use I statements, be empathetic and compassionate, make requests instead of demands, identify how you feel/what you need.. those things are all great and definitely are things i want my husband and i both to work on. i do feel like if we can get a handle on those things, we can improve the way we communicate and hopefully get through this rough patch.

however, i do feel like a lot of it was centered around arguments/fighting in general, but you can have this disconnect/problem communicating without having fights.. so it's hard to apply those things to what i feel like we need right now. i liked the snippets from the couples, and there were certain things i could definitely think about and apply to my marriage, but again, some of it was a bit hard to find the part that it thought would help us. perhaps if there were more exercises or tips to help communication in general. there were a few for sure, i appreciated the exercise ideas, but maybe more general tips would be more helpful - again, this could just be me and my marriage specifically though. everyone is different and i do think this will be helpful if you have a fighting/communication problem, but if it's just the disconnect problem, i don't know.

i loved that it was short, super quick read, some of these kinds of books just go on and on forever and you just want to get to the point. so i did appreciate that, i just maybe would have appreciated some more generic communication tips/exercises.