Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 20th Anniversary Editionby Harville Hendrix Ph.D.,Harville Hendrix Ph.D. |
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- Title:
Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 20th Anniversary Edition
- Reading Level: Paperback
- Binding: Paperback
- No. of Pages: 384
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- Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
- Pub. Date: 2007-12-26
- ISBN: 0805087001
- Product Size (W x H x L) inches: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.2
- Shipping Weight: 0.7
- Average Customer Review:
See Customer Reviews - Amazon Sales Rank: 714
Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 20th Anniversary Edition Review
Source: Product DescriptionREVISED AND WITH A NEW FOREWORD
ARE YOU GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT?
Originally published in 1988, Getting the Love You Want has helped millions of couples attain more loving, supportive, and deeply satisfying relationships. The 20th anniversary edition contains extensive revisions to this groundbreaking book, with a new chapter, new exercises, and a foreword detailing Dr. Hendrix’s updated philosophy for eliminating all negativity from couples’ daily interactions, allowing readers of the 2008 edition to benefit from his ongoing discoveries during his last two decades of work.
Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., in partnership with his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD., originated Imago Relationship Therapy, a unique healing process for couples, prospective couples, and parents. Together they have more than thirty years’ experience as educators and therapists and their work has been translated into more than 50 languages, with Imago practiced by two thousand therapists worldwide. Harville and Helen have six children and live in New York and New Mexico.
Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 20th Anniversary Edition Customer Reviews
Number of reviews: 160 Average Rating:A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2010-09-05 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, Best Relationship Book I've Read
This book saved our marriage. It's got fascinating psychology, but the best part is the exercises. Our favorite is the Couple's Dialogue (called Imago Dialogue in this edition). This exercise has never failed in helping us understand each other.
This edition is the best because the authors removed the one exercise I never liked.
I can't recommend this book highly enough! It's best if you and your partner read it and do the exercises together.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2010-08-15 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, A Must Read For Everyone!
...is about how-to heal and resolve childhood issues/wounds with our partner (rather than bringing them into our relationships) by using Dr. Harville's thesis that we choose partners who have similar attributes and qualities as our parents. A must read for everyone!
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2010-08-11 and rated it
2 People found this review helpful, I Should Have Read The Fine Print
I should have read the fine print of the Title of the book. The book was in fine condition but I didn't realize it was a book for COUPLES... Oh, ICKY YUCK !!!! I thought it was a book for ALL people in general.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2010-08-09 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, 20 Years Later
Two decades ago, while I was enduring the aftermath of a divorce, an acquaintance "tricked" me into reading this book. (That's an interesting story, but for another time.)
I had heard it said that unless we understand why we married our first spouse, we were almost certainly doomed to remarry the "same person". That I did NOT want to do. So, in order to avoid that dreadful prospect, I began reading this book.
At first I was appalled at Hendrix's explanation of why I had chosen my first wife. In fact, I was so offended (and frightened) by what he said, that I almost threw away the book. However, I was just desperate enough to keep reading. And, I am certainly thankful I did. By the end of the book, I was convinced Hendrix was absolutely right in his explanation of love (as a mental process) and why we choose whom we choose.
Twenty years later, I can testify that I am still indebted to this book. It has helped me avoid a number of HORRIBLE mistakes that I was initially inclined to make.
I would also advise anyone who will listen to read this book. Read it as if you're a single person, even if you're married. Read it if you want to understand why you make the decisions you make. Read it if you want to avoid multiple failures in relationships and all sorts of life-changing decisions.
As Solomon wrote: "The mind of the wise seeks knowledge. But the mouth of the fool feeds on folly." (Proverbs 15.14) This book might just be the first meal of wisdom you need.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2010-07-27 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, Excellent!
If you have any questions or difficulties at all with a relationship, I highly recommend "Getting the Love You Want". The insight it gave me into how relationships come to be & how they begin to seperate over time is invaluable - priceless! I would even recommend this book to people who aren't in a relationship so that they can possible understand what it takes to keep one working.
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