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Lessons in Love: The Transformation of Spirit Through Intimacy

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Guy Corneau opens a new way in the understanding of love realtionships. He assumes that our relationships with our parents command our love relationships. Sceptical? Read him and you will be convinced. Understand why you always get to the same kind of partner that does not suit you. Understand how you can get to a better understanding of your beloved to build a intimate love relationship. This book is not a recipe to seduce whoever you want or to influence your partner in the way you intend. This book is the start for a better understanding of yourself to know where you can find your happiness. Read and read this book again and you will here find an appropriate guide to achievement.

I read this book over a year ago and was surprised that there were not more customer reviews. But after reflection, I understand why. It is not that customers do not have anything to say about this book. It is that the book effects people very personally. I want you to read this book and discover your own transformation! I can tell you that the greatest gift this book offers are really effective questions that allow you to uncover layers of "static" that lay behind your own interactions with others and especially with those you love most. The "static" for me was fear and anger. I will share with you my personal testimony. My husband and I had a "crisis" and were separated. While he was reading John Gray's "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" I was reading "Lessons in Love." As I was learning about my own motivations, I realized that I had some childhood wounds that had found there way into our marriage. Rather than treating my husband as my "partner" my "equal"--I was treating him as though he was responsible for some earlier "injustice." The questions and issues raised in this book allowed me to focus on "what is the real issue here" and "how can I get these needs met" in a healthy way. My awareness didn't happen overnight and I had a lot of other support. As I have been talking to more and more people about my near fatal accident (divorce) I am learning that myself and others are terrified to be happy and accept love. This book can help you get closer to that acceptance.

Enjoy the journey.

Having just read this book (in French) I find it important to confirm what other reviewers have said: This is an important book that helps us realize the wounds we carry around with us in our relationships, and that prevent us from living initmately both with ourselves and others. As the 'Journal' review states, it doesn't give us the solutions: the magic pill that solves everything; BUT it says it like it is, take on our own responsability! Work on ourselves! And how can we work on ourselves without having an idea what the problem may be? : This book answers that fundamentaly. To continue on the 'Journal' reveiw, yes, it is based on the Jungian optique, but it goes right to the timeless problems between man and woman and human nature. It talks about how our environment (parents/society) nourtures or mal-nourtures us. It talks about how this crisis existed well before our time and how it continues to this day. So I find it goes well beyond the scope of a Jungian or Freudian library. Also personally it explains well what I have seen in my relationships with women, and the power strugles and is very apropos to the relationship attitudes of those around me. In any event, it helped open my eyes to what to avoid in my choice of a partner. After all, I want to find harmony and intimacy and share responsability, not conflict.