Strength for the Body and the Bond: Emotional Fitness for Couples: Weightlifting Principles for Stro

What if the key to a stronger relationship was hiding in your workout?

In Strength for the Body and the Bond, licensed therapist and certified EFT supervisor Joshua Marder delivers a surprising, insightful guide to building a better relationship-by using the principles of weightlifting.

Drawing from over 20 years of clinical experience and a newfound passion for lifting, Marder reveals how the same habits that build physical strength-progressive overload, good form, spotting, recovery, resilience-can also strengthen emotional connection, communication, and trust.

Whether you're brand new to lifting or deep into your relationship (or both), this book offers a clear, accessible roadmap for how to:

• Show up with consistency, not perfection

• Embrace stress and turn it into growth

• Spot your partner and ask to be spotted in return

• Stay balanced between self and other

• Recover well - and often

• Build emotional endurance in everyday moments

• Reframe your mindset for lasting connection

• Heal from strain without retreating from the work

Packed with humor, relatable metaphors, and heartfelt vignettes, Strength for the Body and the Bond invites you to train your love like a muscle - intentionally, patiently, and with purpose.

Stronger together starts here.