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Hold the Line: The Essential Guide to Protecting Your Law Enforcement Relationship

by Cyndi Doyle

Protecting a relationship shaped by law enforcement

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Protecting a relationship shaped by law enforcement

Cyndi Doyle brings together counseling experience, research, and personal perspective to examine how law enforcement culture can affect officers, spouses, and family life. The book considers how experiences in the field may carry into home behavior and beliefs, and how the expectations of the profession can conflict with common approaches to intimacy and connection. Its practical emphasis is on communication, perspective-taking, and strategies for strengthening a couple’s relationship while also supporting each partner individually. The focus is specific to couples navigating law enforcement’s demands, with attention to both the pressures that can strain connection and ways the book presents for responding to them.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Couples in which one partner works in law enforcement
  • Spouses and family members interested in how law enforcement culture can affect home life
  • Counselors or readers interested in relationship communication and perspective-taking

Themes

Law enforcement culture and family lifeCommunication and connectionIntimacy and relationship resiliencePerspective-taking

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Book overview

She was frustrated! Feeling second to the department again had begun to breed indifference and contempt in her relationship. As a mental health and couple's counselor, she knew those were bad omens. Despite her training, she could not figure out what was happening with them. Then, a speaker at a professional conference, gave insight that ignited a passion to understand her law enforcement husband and empower them as a couple to protect their relationship. Learn the research, psychology, and personal experiences when combined created an "ah-ha" moment that led to improved communication, connection, and ultimately resilience as individuals and together.

 

  • Impact of law enforcement culture and experience on the officer and spouse
  • The psychology behind the law enforcement brain and the impact on behavior and beliefs.
  • Spillover from the field that may impact the spouse and family and techniques counter it.
  • The conflict between what experts say creates a connected and intimate relationship versus the conditioning that occurs in law enforcement.
  • Strategies for improved communication and connection based upon researched principles.
  • Perspective-taking and other core strategies that can recover and protect you individually and as a couple.

 

Using personal stories, professional expertise, and research couples will be entertained and empowered to Hold the Line.

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