In this harried and time-pressed world, couples fall out of synch, and, eventually, out of love. Couple relationships are tested by time pressures from all sides: mobile phones and laptops provide a constant flood of urgent emails and phone calls, making work require our utmost attention. Whatever time's left is often consumed attending to daily chores, your children's busy lives, caring for aging parents, and squeezing in some exercise and sleep. Finding time to make your couple relationship great may seem like an impossible hurdle. If you don't know how to harness the powerful resource of time and rhythm, time can become a destructive force that alienates you from your partner. Internationally-acclaimed couples therapist and CUNY professor of psychology Peter Fraenkel argues that relationship time problems are completely soluble when you achieve a clearer understanding of each partner's inner and outer rhythms. He offers an entirely fresh perspective on the dynamic of intimacy, and presents effective techniques to take charge of your "couple clock" and make your relationship truly satisfying. With the help of quizzes and examples of real-life couples he's helped, you'll learn how to:+ Identify the differences in your daily rhythms, life pace, punctuality, and time perspective that cause problems in communication, sex, and life planning+ Discover how your time differences attracted you in the first place and how make them work for rather than against your relationship+ Create mutually satisfying "rhythms of relationship" that balance time for work, love, friends, chores, children, and self