If you've been looking for an optimistic, competency-based and solution-oriented approach for helping people with relationships, you'll be delighted and rewarded by this book. The authors use a construct of bad story/ good story to blend and organize techniques and metaphors from solution-focused and narrative therapies as well as other current authors and research. The result is a progression of chapters developing techniques or questions for different stages or situations. I especially loved the case examples. The last one, in particular, reminded me of how touching and rewarding our work can be.