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Summary: This books actively helps you restore relationships.
Review: The wonderful thing about Hendrix's book is that it is designed to help you restore your relationship not just understand how it fell apart.We marry often by chance or peer pressure and live to wonder how "we got into this." Hendrix shows us how to meet our own legitimate needs and understand how to meet our partners'. In the end we cannot badger our partner into changing or loving us. It is us who must change and in doing so we change the conduct of our partner. We need to understand both, but work on ourselves. Any one who feels stress in any relationship should read and understand the "imago" and our limbic brains use of it. As Tina Turner says, "Whats love got to do with it,...its just a second hand emotion" Well she half right. Visceral love has a lot to do with who we married, but mature love has as much to do with staying married. Dr Hendrix is terrific.
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Summary: An excellent guide for a mature couple
Review: This book is definitely an eye opener into your own self, and why we are who we are and why we choose the mate we do. This book is an excellent guide for any couple who are mature enough to know they want a lifetime committment to each other and want to understand each other and communicate with one another more effectively. This book probably would not be much help to a couple that is extremely young, i.e. teens, or who are still immature themselves. If you are willing to make the committment and want a more fulfilling and meaningful relationship with your partner, this is definitely an excellent guide, but both partners would need to be as committed as the other to wanting to make the relationship work. Dr. Hendrix's exercises at the end of the book are invaluable and really changed our relationship for the better.
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Summary: harville hendrix is the best there is
Review: reading his book was one of the most self enlightning thing that i have ever done .every chapter of it surprised me with knowledge that i've been looking for all my life. This book is so good that i had to read it slowly and absorb every single word in it. i would like to meet harville hendrix and tell him that he is one of the most intelligent people that i know who could make a difference.
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Summary: Lafia my first love(M.M.X)
Review: Lafia was my first love she knows everything about me.I ask her once to marrie me but she say that she want to finish college first.Iam so into her.Well I could wait tha long if I very into her.She everything that I wanted in my life.We both always talk about our feature all the time.I hope it turn out right,cause I love her alot. She always think that I have someone in my mine. just want to tell everyone that I love her very much. Always C.V.H
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Summary: OK for a first book on relationships and self-awareness
Review: This book really didn't tell me anything new. If you are at the beginning of a journey in self discovery and relational awareness, it's great. If you have done much emotional work, you will probably find it redundant.
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Summary: Relief and Hope
Review: After reading just the first chapter of this book I felt relieved. My wife and I have drifted apart and are considering divorce. This book has hit the mark on so many of our issues and made me realize that these are issues that most all couples have. The author gives excellent advice on how each person can grow and learn to fulfill their own needs as well as their spouse's. Even if my marriage does not work out I will take comfort in the fact that my next spouse will get the very best me possible. It is also an exceptionally easy read. I made it through the first seven chapters in no time. There are no quick fixes and not everyone will be able to make their marriages work but this book has given my marriage the best chance of working and given me the hope I needed to make it through some very troubling times.
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Summary: This is the book you've been looking for . . .
Review: This book never fails to surprise me, both personally and professionally. As a Marriage and Family counselor, it's required reading for my clients. Personally, it started me on my own voyage not only to a wonderful, love filled relationship, but, and this was the surpising part, a journey to forgiving and loving myself. This book rings true again and again in my life.
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Summary: Excellent tools for couples serious about quality marriage
Review: Dr. Hendrix has condensed Adlerian psychodynamic psychotherapy into an easily read, easily understood volume which is appropriate to couples possessing the desire and motivation to enrich both thier marriage and their personal lives. As a practicing therapist, I find that Dr. Hendrix has developed tools which enhance the effectiveness of Adlerian therapy. One caution: for this book to be effective, maturity and discipline are required. It is not a magic pill; it is a tool which must be used diligently and with maturity.
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Summary: Excellent resources for couples!
Review: As a practicing psychologist I have found few tools which are as helpful to couples as Hendrix's book. A well developed text written in a very approachable style. Not only does the book provide a solid theroretical foundation for understanding marriage and patterns of attraction, but it also gives tools and techniques that couples can use on their own to enhance communication and build greater intimacy. Unlike many self-help couples books which are based on "one good idea" this book is an excellent comprehensive guide in your path to a conscious realtionship. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Simplistic and repetitive
Review: Mr. Hendrix makes a few interesting points and gives a fresh spin on why we marry but he relies totally and incorrectly on one theory instead of the range of reasons that make marriage complex and wonderful just like life. Also, Mr. hendrix needs to write a book about the death of his parents so we , the reader, aren't forced to hear whinings of a totally different topic. This book may help people but only a very small number in my opinion.
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