Learn to Love: A Practical Guide to Fulfilling Relationships
Learn to Love is a colorful and inviting illustrated handbook that teaches the real skills and methods that make for healthy romantic unions. This unique guide describes ten detailed relationship strategies for creating intimacy, honesty, and empathy, while improving communication and fostering mutual respect. Over 25 dynamic exercises, such as role-changing and intensive listening, will help partners make lasting changes. Learn to Love offers effective techniques to address difficulties,...
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Learn to Love is a colorful and inviting illustrated handbook that teaches the real skills and methods that make for healthy romantic unions. This unique guide describes ten detailed relationship strategies for creating intimacy, honesty, and empathy, while improving communication and fostering mutual respect. Over 25 dynamic exercises, such as role-changing and intensive listening, will help partners make lasting changes. Learn to Love offers effective techniques to address difficulties, while encouraging couples to identify what's best in what they share and make it even better. Just trying therapist Mary Jaksch's strategies is sure to bring partners closer together. Plus, readers will find that the lessons gleaned from this book also apply to relationships with family, friends, and coworkers.
Introduction6Chapter 1The Relationship Recipe8Love10Passion14Intimacy18Exercise 1The intimacy barometer21Commitment22Trust24Empathy28Exercise 2Looking through the crystal window31Truthfulness32Exercise 3Peeling away the masks35Kindness36Exercise 4The secret gift39Respect40Peacefulness44Exercise 5Peaceful time out47Chapter 2The Art of Positive Realism48The sexual barometer50Things just as they are52Exercise 6The dance of the moment55The corrective lens of values56Springing the gender trap58Exercise 7Confronting your stereotypes61Expanding your world of interest62Personality - the recognizable you64Responsibility - a joint effort68The changing weather of emotions72Reading body language76Controlling your anger78Taming your jealousy80Overcoming your fears82A home that works84How to rethink what you want86Exercise 8Streamlining your goals89Chapter 3Relationship Strategies90How to use the strategies92Strategy 1Closeness94Exercise 9Breathing life into love97Strategy 2Appreciation98Exercise 10The low-whine diet101Strategy 3Compassion102Exercise 11Awakening the tender heart105Strategy 4Honesty106Exercise 12Truth-saying109Strategy 5Dialogue110Exercise 13Walking in the other's shoes113Exercise 14The orderly chaos Mind Map117Strategy 6Vision118Exercise 15Sympathetic magic121Strategy 7Time122Exercise 16Heart hour125Strategy 8Freedom126Exercise 17The elasticity challenge129Strategy 9Play130Exercise 18Play day133Strategy 10Surprise134Exercise 19A royal evening137Chapter 4Widening the Network138Family140Exercise 20The relationship tree143Children144Friends146Colleagues150Conclusion: Where to from here?152Further Reading154Useful Addresses155Index156Acknowledgments160
