Receiving Love: Transform Your Relationship by Letting Yourself Be Loved - Couverture souple

Hendrix, PhD Harville

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0743483707 ISBN 13 : 9780743483704

Editeur : Atria, 2005

Synopsis

Harville Hendrix has illuminated the paths to loving, long-lasting relationships in his "New York Times" bestsellers "Getting the Love You Want" and "Keeping the Love You Find." Now, with coauthor and wife Helen LaKelly Hunt, he brings us to a new understanding about one of the most complicated issues facing couples today: Receiving Love Many men and women know how to "give" love, but many more undermine their relationships by never having learned how to accept it. We don't always realize the ways in which we reject appreciation and affection, help and guidance from our romantic partners. And, according to Hendrix and Hunt, until we are able to understand the meaning behind our behavior, our relationships stand to suffer. Ask yourself: "Are you reluctant to tell your partner what you really want or need? When you do get what you've asked for, do you still feel dissatisfied? Is it difficult for you to accept kind gestures, gifts, or compliments from your partner?" If you answered yes to any of the above, this book is for you. With "Receiving Love," you can learn how to break the shackles of self-rejection -- which likely began in childhood, when our caretakers unintentionally failed to nurture us -- and embrace real intimacy. Drawing on their renowned expertise, the wide clinical experience of Imago therapists, and their own personal experience as a married couple, the authors offer detailed, sensitive advice on how to turn a relationship between two well-meaning yet misunderstood individuals into a true, everlasting partnership.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Do you feel unloved? Do you tell yourself that your partner is either not loving you enough or not loving you in the right way?
In this illuminating book, bestselling author/relationship therapist team, Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt, find that where giving love may be easy, embracing it and letting it change you is another matter. Many of us have trouble accepting the affection we so deeply desire, when the truth is that we are loved, we just don't see it. Instead we brush away compliments and create obstacles to true intimacy.
The authors come to this book from their own experience. After successfully working with thousands of couples, their own relationship began to unravel. Simultaneously, their organization's therapists started to report to them of couples who just couldn't be helped, who were blocked. What Harville and Helen and the therapists discovered was that when partners were finally getting the love they wanted, they were rejecting it.
Receiving Love comes of this personal odyssey: 'There is always hope for turning a relationship between two, isolated individuals into a true partnership,' say the authors. In addressing the biggest issue facing couples today, Receiving Love shows us how to dissolve the barriers, enabling us to open our hearts to love.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., a clinical pastoral counselor and co-creator of Imago Relationship Therapy, has more than thirty-five years' experience as an educator, public lecturer, and couples' therapist.

Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. used her education in psychology to help develop the Imago process as well as to support gender equity -- for which she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. She is in great demand as a public speaker.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Atria
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0743483707
• ISBN 13: 9780743483704
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320