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Love--The Course They Forgot To Teach You In School

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This book is very helpful. It gives insight into how to make love work by giving you simple outlines and guides. I highly suggest the book to anyone in a loving relationship.

Jessica Writer for BellaOnline.com

Most self-help books for couples assume that there is a problem to fix. This book starts with a 'relationship report card' to help readers take their relationship to a new level of intimacy and enjoyment. It is a book that helps to enhance relationships rather than to fix them. I appreciate that, and so, I recommend this book as 'own work' for couples I see in my therapy practice. The chapters are short, and each one comes with questions and exercises to help couples deepen their knowledge of each other and to connect in new ways. Go through one chapter a week together to have an A+ relationship!

In an ideal world, this book and its insights would be welcome in most any relationship, from a woman's viewpoint. But, unfortunately, neither males nor the world is set up to accept the kinds of romanticism that women bring to the "table" of a marital relationship. The 60/40 split by and large is unachievable in a world where men feel superior and have the need to be in control of their fate: their finances, and their emotions. Although the book argues why losing control is good for men, it continues to put women on the spot to carry the entire burden since men, too often, unwilling to open the cover of such a book, while women feast upon it in recognition. The fact that it is published by Casablanca Press is no small accident to be sure, since while women attempt to read and practice it, men are running the other way, an impossible dream of acquisition, to be exact. While women fantasize and men complain, the Mars/Venus trap is alive and well, living in Panama, so to speak as each feasts instead upon the discontent of the other shown not by love and intimacy, but by resentment, competition and rejection. But keeping hope alive is important to all of us; even if by fantasy and illusion. The end result may be deception, but one were're all willing to accept, for survival's sake.