Happy Together

From best-selling author Werner Bartens (over 150,000 copies of »What Keeps Couples Together« sold, 127,000 copies of »The Book for People Who Hate Doctors« and 111,000 copies of »A Happy Body«)

Anyone can fall in love. There’s not all that much to early infatuation. However, not only maintaining a long-term relationship in spite of familiarisation, getting annoyed and gaining weight but actually enjoying it and enriching each other, that requires a whole lot more. Renowned doctor and scientific journalist Dr. Werner Bartens shows us how to have a successful long-term relationship and why being together with another person is worth it for many reasons. For a long time now we have known that a loving relationship helps us stay healthy.

Attention, closeness and the good feeling of being loved strengthen the immune system, reduce our sensitivity to pain and keep our blood vessels elastic. The positive health benefits of a successful relationship are astonishingly many. From the banal cold to a stroke, heart attack or tumour, scientists have observed the beneficial effects of a happy relationship. Which, however, does not at all mean that we smother every conflict with harmony sauce. Bartens also shows us how to argue constructively, why anger decreases lifespan and why men are often more easily hurt in relationships than women.

»Herr Dr. Bartens, you’re a goddamn genius!« Stern