I read a really neat book a couple years ago that my wife and I had some fun with. It is called "If These Walls Could Talk" and it is a collection of 25 stories about couples. I copied this off a review somewhere online:
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The life lessons contained herein are distinctly psychological. For example, in a couples counseling session, “Rebecca” (all names have been changed) describes her feelings of disappointment in her husband Joel, who is not altogether “there for her,” as is evidenced by Joel’s failure to pick up coffee creamer for her at the grocery store. Some probing reveals that Rebecca had mentioned the need for coffee creamer hours before Joel went to the store, not right before he left. Nor did she give Joel a shopping list. “But do I always have to ask for everything?” she asks plaintively. “If he loved me, he would know what I need.” The discussion leads to an insight about the common “Golden Fantasy” of love, rooted in infancy, which assumes that a partner should fill our needs without having to be asked. (Rebecca and Jeff subsequently patched it up.)
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Chasey and I read the book and had some interesting discussions afterwards. I think we were driving somewhere like Yosimite and so we had the time to do it and no distractions like TV etc at the time. You can find the book on Amazon used for $7 bucks. All the stories are different and deal with different things. You can ease into it with stories that don't apply to you two and then switch over to ones that hit closer to home.
Here it is on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...593410-0135304