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WHY DO SO MANY RELATIONSHIPS FAIL-EVEN WHEN LOVE IS PRESENT? Why do intelligent, well-meaning people keep choosing the wrong partners, repeating the same relationship patterns, or feeling emotionally unfulfilled in marriage? The Second Bridge is a powerful relationship book about love, marriage, and emotional maturity-designed for people who want healthy, lasting relationships, not just romantic beginnings. Drawing on real research, coaching psychology, and lived experience across Africa and the United States, this book reveals why love alone is never enough-and what truly sustains commitment. The Second Bridge is not a romance manual. It is a deeply practical, research-informed guide to understanding why we love the way we do-and how to love better. Drawing on original research conducted across Africa and the United States, lived experience, coaching practice, and culturally grounded wisdom, Abas Alhassan challenges the myths we have inherited about relationships, love, marriage, and commitment. WHAT MAKES THIS BOOK UNIQUE: Research-backed insights from 225 couples across the USA and Africa Cross-cultural perspective revealing universal relationship truths Brutally honest personal story of a 35-year marriage that failed-and what I learned from both the ending and the new beginning Practical tools you can use immediately: The Agreement Audit, assessment worksheets, discussion questions for couples Real talk about money, sex, children, religion, in-laws, and the hard conversations nobody wants to have THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU IF: You're engaged or newly married and want to build it right from the beginning You're in a long-term relationship that's ""fine"" but not flourishing You communicate well but still feel disconnected You're considering divorce and need clarity on whether to stay or go You've been divorced and are ready to try again-but smarter this time

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DR BÀBÁ AMANI OLÚBÁNJỌ BUNTÚTransformation Strategist, Community Scholar and Therapist ""The Second Bridge: Building Lasting Love is a thoughtful and timely contribution to how women and men sustain meaningful relationships. The author brings lived experience, cultural insight, and empirical research into conversation with one another in ways that feel genuine rather than performative."" ""The metaphor of the 'bridge' carries particular significance in African epistemology, and the author uses it effectively to frame his reflections on marriage, love, and the often invisible foundations that determine whether relationships thrive or decay. This is a thoughtful and timely contribution to ongoing conversations about how women and men sustain meaningful relationships."" PROFESSOR EMMANUEL OJODeputy Head of School, Wits School of Education ""This book does not glorify divorce, nor does it shame it. It asks the harder question: how do we live truthfully and responsibly? The author does not write to impress. He writes because he has lived the consequences of unexamined assumptions about marriage, duty, faith, and masculinity-and because he believes clarity and honesty might save others from similar pain."" ""The Second Bridge is a book that speaks quietly, but with weight. It does not posture as expert knowledge, nor does it rush to offer answers. Instead, it feels like a conversation one has later in life-after the sharp edges of certainty have been softened by experience.""

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