Partnership Tools: Transforming the Way We Live Together

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Summary: Excellent reading! Thoroughly recommended!
Review: If there was ever a book whose time has come, Partnerships Tools is it!

We live in a time of freedom in our relationships---now, more than ever. In the past we were expected to marry and stay married, no matter what. Now, the divorce rate is soaring and many couples have no idea why or what to do about it. Indeed. "They believe that somehow there is something wrong with them because they don't already know how to make their relationships work, that somehow their lack of skills means that they are inadequate or stupid."

Help is here. Psychotherapist, consultant and author Alan Konell provides the means to deal with these new freedoms and for our needs for even more intimacy than ever. Partnership Tools enables the reader to make healthy choices and clear away old patterns to sustain and grow in our relationships. And this growth can only lead to evolution as human beings---individuals, families and the world.

In his easy-to-read writing style, Mr. Konell leads us to an understanding of 14 different tools for success. Partnership Tools includes forgiving, and requesting rather than complaining. We learn how to set boundaries, express appreciation, to be straight and share. And the evolution from conditional love to unconditional love: giving and receiving freely and making true commitments.

Alan's last chapter has to do with rituals in relationships. In this powerful segment we read how rituals help us step back and take the space we need to remember our connection to our partner. And to remember our commitments, "...to what was, what is and what will be. It is a celebration of achievement and an acknowledgement of our contribution, to each other."

Partnership Tools is not just a good book, it is a great book. Alan Konell has provided a new set of tools to create dynamic and fulfilling relationships. This reviewer regards Partnership Tools as a must-read for better communications and happiness, one that you should run to get, not just walk!

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Summary: Written from a very practical point of view
Review: Partnership Tools: Transforming The Way We Live Together by psychotherapist Alan Konell is an emotional self-help book that enables readers truly understand such vital practices to a relationship as forgiving, expressing conditional and unconditional love, making true commitments and much, much more. Written from a very practical point of view, chapters discuss not only how to improve the bond with one's partner, but also what to do when good intentions are not clear or obstacles to communication are seemingly too great. Partnership Tools is strongly recommended reading for anyone aspiring to, or involved in, a personal relationship.