The Truth About Relationships: A Simple and Powerfully Effective Way for Everyone to Find Real Love and Loving Relationships (Hardcover)

by Greg, Md. Baer (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review
"Dr. Baer's insight and common sense are astonishing. He exposes relationships for what they are with a quiver full of arrows that hit on-target. This sensitive and vivid book destroys the barriers to love in any relationship." -- The Book Reader

"The Truth About Relationships is an awesome and essential contribution to the understanding of love and relationships. It's an intimate and truthful work of art, a modern masterpiece. Move over, John Gray! Greg Baer is the ultimate relationship expert." -- Matthew Gray and Angelina, Love Life Radio Globalcast

"The Truth About Relationships is head and shoulders above anything out there about relationships. It touched me... I cound not wait to turn each page. It was like stepping from the shadows into the sun! Dr. Baer has given us a monumental achievement in understanding Real Love and relationships." -- Richard Fuller, Metaphysical Reviews

Product Description
More than anything else in this world, we want to be unconditionally loved. But most of us have never experienced love in a truly unconditional way. That tragic fact is the greatest cause of unhappiness in our lives. It's the reason our relationships are unfulfilling and often destructive.

When we don't find unconditional love in relationships, we try to manipulate people and change them to get praise, power, and pleasure for ourselves. And we protect ourselves from the people we want to love us, hurting them and leaving us even more alone. We're constantly disappointed, angry, and confused about our relationships.

We can change all that. In The Truth About Relationships, we learn how to find Real Love and change our relatinships in a powerful way. And then we find a happiness we never imagined.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 341 pages
• Publisher: Blue Ridge Pr; 1st edition (September 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1892319004
• ISBN-13: 978-1892319005
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #733,115 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Common-sense book about Real Love, March 18, 2002

By	J. Carty "jcarty123" (Palo Alto, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Truth About Relationships, Second Edition (Hardcover)

Some reader wrote a strange review of this book, because it hasn't anything thing to do with that person's "Buddhism, saints or sages". Refreshingly, Dr. Baer steers well clear of that stuff - it isn't mentioned or used even once.

This is an unusually common-sense, straightforward, down-to-earth book about what love is and is not; how Real Love "looks" in various relationships; how and why people keep themselves from having it; why people do the crazy stuff they do (that we read about in the papers, experience in our own lives, etc.) because of its lack; and how you and I can go about finding it.

The answer is hard and not to be avoided, but is simple at the same time: We have to start telling the truth about ourselves - acknowledging our shortcomings to people, and ceasing to hide our mistakes - so that others will have a chance to see & accept us as we really are, and so that we can sooner or later find the people who will do so.

I've been reading relationship books for a couple of decades, and though I do not think all of Dr. Baer's answers and methods are perfect, this is the clearest, most useful explanation of Real Love I have yet come across.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The truth at last, June 25, 2002

By	Sherrie White "white_etc" (St. Louis, MO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Truth About Relationships, Second Edition (Hardcover)

This book is for those willing to open their minds to the possibility that happiness or the lack of it is up to them. It speaks clearly and openly about our faults in relationships and how to rid ourself of behaviors that result in our own unhappiness and lack of love.
It requires a very open mind. I found it to be accurate in my life. The reasons for emptiness and fear are right on the money. The Getting and Protecting Behaviors are also correct.
Manipulation, clinging, lying, extracting what you need from others that result in temporary feelings of joy but ultimately result in feeling empty are all parts of what is wrong with how we look at what a relationship is.
I am excited about what I read.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a gift., September 10, 2002

By A Customer

This book resonated with me very strongly. It answered so many of my questions about why I act the way I do. It is truly the most useful self-help book I've encountered. Anyone who is honestly looking for healthy ways of looking at life and relationships has found a big chunk of answers.