An intimate, life-affirming and original debut about the nature of love, from its incandescent beginnings to its final breath and back again, perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver, Alain de Botton and Nancy Mitford.
Find the love of your life and keep the relationship going strong with this book from top-psychologist and relationship guru. True love isn’t a fairy tale or Hollywood fiction; it’s real, it’s beautiful, and it’s out there waiting for you. Love Match not only helps you find the love of your life—it keeps your relationship going strong for years to come. Love Match helps you find true, healthy, meaningful love—the kind that enriches your life and creates new opportunities for personal growth and happiness. Everything you need to find love and keep it, including: • Understanding the four types of intimacy • The difference between love and attachment, and your “attachment style” • Finding love after loss or heartbreak • Learning to speak the five “love languages” • Manage conflict in a long-term relationship Whether you’re new to the dating scene or looking to put yourself back out there, or even if you’re in a committed relationship and are trying to bring back that “spark,” Love Match is your guide to a new world of romantic happiness.
Are you frustrated by stymied relationships, missed connections, and the loneliness of the search for someone to spend the rest of your life with? Are you ready, instead, to find “The One”? In Calling in “The One,” Katherine Woodward Thomas shares her own personal experience to show women that in order to find the relationship that will last a lifetime, you have to be truly open and ready to create a loving, committed, romantic union. Calling in “The One” shows you how. Based on the Law of Attraction, which is the concept that we can only attract what we’re ready to receive, the provocative yet simple seven-week program in Calling in “The One” prepares you to bring forth the love you seek. For each of the 49 days of Thomas’s thoughtful and life-affirming plan, there is a daily lesson, a corresponding practice, and instruction for putting that lesson into action in your life. Meditation, visualization, and journaling exercises will gently lead you to recognize the obstacles on your path to love and provide ways to steer around them. At the end of those 49 days, you will be in the ideal emotional state to go out into the world and find “The One.” An inspirational approach that offers a radical new philosophy on relationships, Calling in “The One” is your guide to finding the love you seek.
'An extraordinary interrogation of the human heart in all its complexity. Anyone who has ever felt they might die for love will relish this book.' Rowan PellingAfter an argument with her husband Gilles, Venus Rees is left devastated by his sudden death. But when she discovers that he died of a treatable genetic condition she knew nothing about, she is haunted by the thought that he didn’t love her enough to save himself. As time passes, Venus looks set to be trapped between grief and distrust forever. Until she meets the shy, good-looking and seemingly ideal Alex.Intertwining Venus’s compelling attraction to Alex in the present with Gilles’ enraptured pursuit of her in the past, Ideal Love is an intimate and life-affirming novel about love, from its incandescent beginnings to its final breath and back again.What Reviewers and Readers Say:'Burnett's ear for dialogue between lovers – and friends – is second to none. Ideal Love is an extraordinary interrogation of the human heart in all its complexity. Anyone who has ever felt they might die for love will relish this book.' Rowan Pelling'A rich and evocative novel about what it means to love and, above all, what it means to be human.' Annabel Abbs'Interesting and challenging' Katie Fforde
Are You Fit For Love? Have you ever wondered why you are always attracted to the same type of person, even if they are abusive or controlling? And even if you are aware of this tendency, do you feel helpless to change it? After years of observation, Dr. Teshna Beaulieu came up with the concept of a Love Blueprint, a unique pattern formed early on in life. In Fit for Love, Dr. Teshna shows how to discover your own Love Blueprint-as well as a powerful technique to transform it to your advantage. This book is for you if: You want to improve your current relationship... You want to mend a broken heart and manifest your dream relationship... You want to end an abusive or unsatisfying relationship... You want to know why you keep attracting the same type of partner in relationships that never work out. Do you have the Love Blueprint it takes to manifest and maintain a fulfilling, long-lasting relationship? Fit for Love will help you find out Dr. Teshna helped me peel back layer after layer of emotions that kept me frozen and stuck. Thanks to her technique I released a tightly locked and warped belief system I had built up around my dysfunctional love relationship. I was able to leave the relationship, go back to school, start my own business, and I am now happily married with the man of my dreams. -Kate. Dr. Teshna helped me update my Love Blueprint after a devastating heartbreak, mend my heart, and manifest my ideal husband. A new life of joy and fulfillment has begun. -Victoria.
A couples therapist and relationship expert explains why conflicts between partners often result in a lack of self-control and compassion. This guide shows how to overcome destructive impulses and nurture loving and rational qualities.
Most dating books tell you what NOT to do. Here's a book dedicated to telling you what you CAN do. In his book, Get the Guy, Matthew Hussey—relationship expert, matchmaker, and star of the reality show Ready for Love—reveals the secrets of the male mind and the fundamentals of dating and mating for a proven, revolutionary approach to help women to find lasting love. Matthew Hussey has coached thousands of high-powered CEOs, showing them how to develop confidence and build relationships that translate into professional success. Many of Matthew’s male clients pressed him for advice on how to apply his winning strategies not to just get the job, but how to get the girl. As his reputation grew, Hussey was approached by more and more women, eager to hear what he had learned about the male perspective on love and romance. From landing a first date to establishing emotional intimacy, playful flirtation to red-hot bedroom tips, Matthew’s insightfulness, irreverence, and warmth makes Get the Guy: Learn Secrets of the Male Mind to Find the Man You Want and the Love You Deserve a one-of-a-kind relationship guide and the handbook for every woman who wants to get the guy she’s been waiting for.
A nationally known couples therapist reveals the single root cause of all relationship problems—and offers revolutionary advice on what to do about it While most of us have moments of loving freely and openly, it is often hard to sustain this where it matters most—in our intimate relationships. If love is so great and powerful, why are human relationships so challenging and difficult? If love is the source of happiness and joy, why is it so hard to open to it fully and let it govern our lives? In this book, John Welwood addresses these questions and shows us how to overcome the most fundamental obstacle that keeps us from experiencing love's full flowering in our lives. Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships begins by showing how all our relational problems arise out of a universal ‘wound of the heart’ that affects not only our personal relationships but the quality of life in our world as a whole. This core wound shows up as a pervasive mood of unlove—a deep sense that we are not intrinsically lovable just as we are. It shuts down our capacity to trust, so that even though we may hunger for love, we have difficulty opening to it and letting it circulate freely through us. This book takes the reader on a powerful journey of healing and transformation that involves learning to embrace these imperfections—within ourselves and within our relationships—as trail-markers along the path to great love. It sets forth a process for releasing deep-seated grievances we hold against others for not loving us better and against ourselves for not being better loved. And it shows how our longing to be loved can magnetize the great love that will free us from looking to others to find ourselves. Written with penetrating realism and a fresh, lyrical style that honors the subtlety and richness of our relationship to love itself, this revolutionary book offers profound and practical guidance for healing our lives as well as our embattled world.