This book has dual purpose offering both an entertaining and an educational approach to relationship self-help. Most of us can identify with the busyness and stress of life. And we know it detracts from our romantic relationship and the need to better nurture it. Author Dr. Tim McCarthy holds that few of us are educated or trained enough in how to have a successful relationship in our society. So his goal is to better enlighten couples as he goes beyond ordinary self-help books to offer a more entertaining fictional story that educates all couples in the best practice principles for relationship success. This is an interesting "good read" fictional book that also will help you learn what the typical problems encountered in love and marriage are and how to overcome them using leading edge relationship best practices? The Life of Riley shows you how to communicate more effectively, feel heard and understood, reduce conflict, and spark the fire in your own relationship!The reader will be able to recognize similar common issues in their own relationship as they watch and learn from typical real life experiences faced by couples in the story of The Life of Riley. The setting--Dr. Steve Riley is a marriage therapist who has developed a new approach to romantic love and relationships. Finally ready to enjoy his new freedom of being an "empty nester" his two adult children with their relationship partners unexpectedly return home. And they bring with them their own relationship issues in which they turn to Dr. Steve's teachings to help solve on their own. Watch and learn from couples in Dr. Steve's life as they confront commonplace challenges and apply his best practices to achieve newfound levels of deeper love and satisfaction. Reading this book will help you learn new insights and practical principles for how to improve your own relationship and take it to new levels of love connection and fulfillment!