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Relationships

By: The School of Life
Narrated by: Fiona Buckland
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A fresh approach to matters of the heart, teaching us that success in love need never again be just a matter of luck.

Love has a history and we ride - sometimes rather helplessly - on its currents. Since around 1750, we have been living in a highly distinctive era in the history of love that we can call Romanticism. And it has been a disaster for love.

Relationships challenges the assumptions of the Romantic view of love. It shows how to develop new attitudes that can lead to a psychologically mature vision of love:

  • That it is okay that love and sex may not always belong together
  • That discussing money early on, in a serious way, is not a betrayal of love
  • That realizing that we are rather flawed, and our partner is too, is of huge benefit to a couple
  • That we will never find everything we need in another person, nor they in us
  • That spending two hours discussing whether bathroom towels should be hung up or can be left on the floor has its own dignity

Full of applied real-life examples, and enlivened throughout with humor and cultural anecdote, this innovative guide paves the way to a new, brighter future for love.

©2016 The School of Life (P)2021 The School of Life Love, Dating & Attraction Relationships Witty Heartfelt
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I found it very easy to listen to and also very refreshing. a good book for discussion between myself and my partner or even with friends. I recommended it to a couple of my friends as well. the tedx talks of the author are also great

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this book was absolutely fantastic. very confronting at times. there where moments where I found myself getting frustrated because what they where describing counters my personal beliefs, which then forced me to look inward and realise how rigid my own beliefs around relationships and love really where, which lead me to let go of those beliefs. that's not to say I believe in everything they say, but I definitely have a new appreciation for not only my own relationship and those of my past, but for all the different relationship types that others may be involved with. I'll definitely need to go over this one a few times to absorb it all, and I can definitely see why some people might hate this book because of how confronting it can feel sometimes, but yeah, really really recommend!

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