Paradox The Invisible Blueprint: How Your Family of Origin is Running Your Marriage, (Paperback)

<p>Here's the retail description for <b>The Invisible Blueprint</b> - <b>3,478 characters</b>, within the KDP 4,000-character limit and ready to paste (the dashes will render as bullets once you apply KDP's list formatting): </p> <p><b>Every pattern in your marriage has a history. It did not begin the day you said "I do."</b></p><p>It began decades earlier, in a house you no longer live in, with people whose voices you still carry. The fights about money. The silence that lasts for days. The way one of you pursues and the other disappears. None of it is random. You are living inside an invisible blueprint you never chose and cannot see without someone showing you where to look.</p><p>If you have ever wondered why you keep having the same argument in different words, why trying harder only seems to make things worse, or why your spouse becomes a different person the moment the pressure rises-this book will show you why.</p><p>In <i>The Invisible Blueprint</i>, Dr. Michael G. Semon-a marriage and family therapist with more than forty years in practice-hands you the single most clarifying tool he knows: the genogram. More than a family tree, a genogram maps the emotional architecture of a family across three generations. It shows you who was close and who was cut off, where the addictions ran and the secrets sat, which child carried the weight, and how those patterns ride down the years on rails that were laid before you were born.</p><p>You will learn to: </p><ul><li>Draw your own three-generation map, step by step, in a single afternoon</li><li>Read the symbols clinicians use-and what they quietly reveal about you</li><li>Name the role you were handed: the responsible one, the rescuer, the rebel, the lost child</li><li>Map your partner's family with patience instead of blame</li><li>See what happens when two family systems collide inside one marriage</li></ul><p>That final chapter does the most marital work. Semon walks you through the patterns he has watched for four decades-the pursuer and the distancer, the overfunctioner and the underfunctioner, cutoff that married fusion, the triangles that quietly absorb a marriage-and shows you how to find your own on the page.</p><p>Through unforgettable composite stories-a pastor staring down three generations of men who served until they collapsed; a daughter who discovers she has been carrying her mother the way her mother carried hers; a couple whose every fight is really two inheritances negotiating one kitchen-you will stop seeing a list of complaints about your spouse and start seeing the system the two of you share.</p><p>This is not a book that tells you to try harder or communicate better. You have tried that. <i>The Invisible Blueprint</i> offers something different: an angle. Because a pattern loses its power the moment it has a name, a shape, and a place on a page.</p><p>Written for the kitchen table, not the seminar room-short, honest, and filled with real examples-it includes a complete symbol reference and a blank three-generation template, so you can put the book down and immediately begin drawing your own. This is the guide for any husband, wife, or partner ready to understand the family they came from, the family their partner came from, and the marriage standing between them.</p><p>The work you do here is not work against your family.</p>

• Paradox The Invisible Blueprint: How Your Family of Origin is Running Your Marriage, (Paperback)
• Author: Michael G Semon
• ISBN: 9798182078603
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-18
• Page Count: 100