With Relationship Rescue, Philip McGraw has done a great amount of work to try and help people put their lives back together after things have fallen apart. This is no different from anything else that he has done on television with his show that brings in people who are in the middle of family crisis. If there are problems that people are having, he will help them find a way to sole it themselves.

While it might be better to have Dr. Phil right there with you to help you figure things out, his book, Relationship rescue, provides the next best thing. While it is always recommended to go seek counseling, it may not always be feasible. What makes many efforts to save relationships fail is that there is no action taken. Dr. Phil insists that if your relationship is to be saved, then both parties must work to save it. Any marriage counseling or relationship advice that anyone will give you will let you know that work is involved.

Phil McGraw's book gives people instructions that are very helpful but can be difficult because he challenges both parties in the love relationship to look inwardly and own up to their problems and work to fix them. He tells them that they need to work as hard to fix themselves as they expect their partner or spouse to work on theirs. Relationship Rescue says that even if you think that your significant other is the root of all the problems you must scrutinize yourself.

In Relationship Rescue, Dr. Phil asks readers to perform an self analysis regarding their feelings about the relationship. There are lists of questions that are categorized by topics like, "Relationship Health Profile," "Personal Concepts Profile," "The Relationship Behavior Profile: Your Partner," "The Relationship Behavior Profile: You." Just looking at those headings you know that it is going to require some serious work and thinking that it will be well worth it once you see an improvement in not only your perceptions of the relationship, but in the relationship itself.

Dr. Phil's Relationship Rescue encourages people to change their perspective of their relationship from a negative one to a positive one. Most people make things out to be worse than they really are. Changing one's viewpoint of the other in the love relationship may help them see that the problems may not be as bad as first thought.

Dr. Phil, as always, gives common sense relationship advice that requires some hard thinking and some hard work. There are millions of people who have taken the advice that he gives in this book and some have seen dramatic improvements in their lives.

If you don't have the patience, or the time, to read Dr. Phil's Relationship Rescue book, there is an alternative, called The Magic of Making Up by TW Jackson. It's very similar in type of advice given by Dr, Phil, but TW relies more on just ONE partner taking the steps necessary to repair a broken relationship. TW believes that if you take that good long look at yourself first, then your ex will learn to love the new you all over again. It's not often that both parties in a relationship are willing to take the time and effort to scrutinize a broken relationship the way that Dr. Phil advises. That doesn't necessarily mean that the relationship is doomed, however.