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Love for the Living : Meditations on the Meaning of Marriage and Life

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I love this book. It is such a far cry from most self-help books that only offer sterile solutions and formulas. The author of Love for the Living shares his most personal experiences and lessons in a very conversational way.

I found myself identifying with this book as a new wife and parent, as someone's child and as someone's sibling.

This book is deeply moving, hysterical, straightforward, honest & nostalgic.

You must read it!

I was touched by the sensitivity, wisdom and honesty of the writer. While written in an easy readable style, it's a book that goes to the core of human needs and feelings:love,pain, understanding,belonging and other. I appreciated Dr. Saferstein's approach to relationships often from the woman's point of view.At times it seemed that it was a woman's voice speaking to me. Reading about the writer's personal life, I found many subtle lessons to apply to my own life. I found it uplifting that grief at the death of his younger sister resulted in a new reawakaning to all the things that were dear to him. It made me reflect on my relationships and what was important to me in life.

This book is thoughtful, gentle, deeply reflective and wonderfully written. It brings a literate touch to the self-help genre.

Saferstein walks you through some important events in his life in order to derive general lessons that will be helpful for anyone who has suffered a loss, or is going through a change of life, or working their way through a relationship. It is his first book and is a very worthy effort. I look forward to reading more from this promising new writer who moves the self-help genre to a higher plane. Highly recommended.

I knew the author as a younger man ...has morphed into an amalgam of Dr. Ruth and Dr. Phil. Death of a close relative effects people in profound ways, yet personalities are mostly immutable. Ann Arbor is a granola city, but please. I found the prose stilted and the examples right in line with the general tendency of people in the helping professions to generalize their advice to the masses to sell books. Waste of time!!!