Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples: Third Edition
You will feel safe and respected with your partner. Your relationship will be loving, honest, and committed. You can experience play, laughter, pleasure, and trust in your relationship. Your partner will be open to learning how to be in conflict together in a healthy way. Your partnership is rooted in a mutual willingness to grow together. Your par
... See moreSheleana Aiyana • Becoming the One: Heal Your Past, Transform Your Relationship Patterns, and Come Home to Yourself
Having your own bad, immature, and broken parts open to the scrutiny of that person Solving conflict in ways that do not involve leaving the relationship Staying in the relationship even if the other person changes for the worse Being called to sacrifice many individual preferences for the sake of the relationship
John Townsend • Boundaries in Dating: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Relationships
When your partner can sense that you have both felt and navigated the time and space of your relating, and she can feel the width and depth of your being, she can fully let go of any need to hold the structure. She can simply be the flow of energy and love that the structure you have created calls for.
John Wineland • From the Core: A New Masculine Paradigm for Leading with Love, Living Your Truth, and Healing the World
Modern relationships are cauldrons of contradictory longings: safety and excitement, grounding and transcendence, the comfort of love and the heat of passion. We want it all, and we want it with one person. Reconciling the domestic and the erotic is a delicate balancing act that we achieve intermittently at best. It requires knowing your partner wh... See more