This book identifies the keys to keeping romance alive that can deepen the joy, happiness and sense of fulfillment you experience in your life.
You will learn how to:
Accept responsibility for all your own thoughts, feelings and actions
Demonstrate unconditional positive regard to those you love
Accurately verbalize your feelings
Communicate empathic understanding
Accentuate the positive and not obsess on the negative
Be assertive
Be flexible
Focus on what you want from your relationship not what you don?t want
Let go of the past and stay focused on the present
Identify anger as the expression of hurt, fear, sadness or pain
Use positive ?self-talk? to over-ride negative emotions
Give that which you want to receive
Experience your partner as your best friend
Illustrations
Dedication
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction : Loving is an action - not a feeling
2. Defining emotional intimacy
3. Finding real romance requires being
grounded in reality
4. Signs of an unhealthy relationship
5. Frustrated with your relationship?
Rescuing won?t help!
6. Jealousy is destructive to a relationship
7. The gift of forgiveness
8. Is it really possible to be unselfish in a relationship?
9. Healthy self-esteem is a family affair
10. Don?t let negative thoughts be the focus of your relationship
11. Look for ?beauty marks?, not just ?warts?
12. Letting go of your fears
13. Love must be given away to be received
14. Building friendship
15. Achieving psychological intimacy in your relationship
16. Making a good marriage great
17. Becoming best friends
18. Valuing your relationship
19. The key to lasting love
20. Depression can damage a relationship: Don?t ignore it
21. Conclusion: A relationship cannot be a substitute for a healthy self-esteem
22. Just thinking of you. (A poem.)
23. Words of love: Exchanging vows of commitment to a relationship
24. Will and GABRIELA?s Wedding Vows
25. Bibliography
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