From Publishers Weekly
In this ambitious how-to on dating and mating for women willing to apply a businesslike discipline to choosing the right partner, psychotherapist Lopez blends pragmatism with an Enneagram-based personality profiling system. She claims many successes among her L.A. clients who have used her strategic method, which requires objectivity about past relationships, focusing on one's goals and values and assessing prospective partners according to those standards. Combining a modern attitude toward monogamy with very traditional dating rules (i.e., let the man pick up the check), she is direct, optimistic and lively, and makes her points with helpful personal and professional stories. Nearly a third of the book is devoted to using the Enneagram, the symbol introduced to the West early in this century by G.I. Gurdjieff, to classify personality types and compatibility between them. Readers will either buy this (increasingly popular) application of the EnneagramAand indeed the entire concept of personality typesAor they won't, but in any case Lopez offers hard-nosed, warm-hearted advice. Author tour.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Book Description
This groundbreaking book is based on Suzanne Lopez's nearly two decades of working with intelligent, accomplished women who couldn't get love right. To help them, she developed the Smart Heart Partnering Process, a systematic, proven approach to wise dating and mating that explains:
How to avoid Detours, Dangers, and Definite Disasters
Conscious Dating--what it is and how to do it
How to integrate romance with reality
What questions to ask him to discover his goals, values and beliefs
How to determine if your partner is ready for the relationship you want
Personal/Partner Profiles and how to use them to reveal potential compatibility or conflict in your relationship
"An intelligent approach to finding a compatible partner...will help you pave the way to an open, honest, and fulfilling relationship."-- John Gray
"Sound relationship advice...excellent."-- Sally Jesse Raphael
"Illuminates the heart with brilliant breakthrough ideas, so you can orchestrate your life and relationships and make them good and phenomenally better."-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Hard-nosed, warmhearted advice."--
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