- ISBN13: 9781400049295
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Product Description
Are you frustrated by stymied relationships, missed connections, and the loneliness of the search for someone to spend the rest of your life with? Are you ready, instead, to find “The One”? In Calling in “The One,” Katherine Woodward Thomas shares her own personal experience to show women that in order to find the relationship that will last a lifetime, you have to be truly open and ready to create a loving, committed, romantic union. Callin… More >>
Calling in “The One”: 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life
This book is no better than a diet book. Gimme a break!
Sounds like the author just decided to say YES to a man she already said NO to because her clock was ticking.
Hardly good advice for anyone REALLY wanting a mature relationship.
Rating: 1 / 5
A girlfriend of mine, actually several of them, experimented with this latest date fixer-upper program and no one new is calling. The author provides some useful tips in the book but overall …. Check out Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks books on conscious loving and attracting relationships. Quick fixes in diets and dating offer fast solutions that go just as swiftly. Marianne Williamson is quited often in several chapters and well …. we all know (at least some of us do) … about Ms. Williamson’s relationship patterns. If you want to go from man to man and experience one lover after another abandoning you for his real love … then listen to Marianne and her flock. Otherwise, check out the Hendricks Institute for advice from a married couple whose been together all the time that Marianne and the author were being dumped over and over again.
Rating: 1 / 5
I know my review won’t be popular, but I purchased “Calling In The One” and found it, simply, too demanding and too hard psychologically to bear.
Thomas asks her readers to do several years’ worth of therapy in the course of seven weeks, most of it boring, mind-numbingly repetitive and unrelated to the task of finding a husband. The majority of her workbook assignments force the reader to delve deeply, and often triggeringly, into childhood devastations and long-buried agonies that, in my case, only numbed me deeper against wanting a relationship. I also wondered why it is women are the ones asked to do all this difficult psychological work in order to win “the prize” of having a man, and men are asked to do virtually nothing at all. I found myself rebelling against the book and everything it stood for by the second week of the seven the reader is obliged to undertake.
Reading the author’s own personal take on how she met “the one” (an African-American man she was not even initially attracted to the first several times she met him – the author is a white female of a certain age), and being an African-American woman not at all attracted to black men, I find myself with the sinking, despairing suspicion the author “settled” with a black man to unconsciously rebel against her mother (who, in the book, warned the author explicitly NEVER to bring home a black man), and to become pregnant: which, by her new African-American husband, she easily did.
Sour grapes towards hesitant and commitmentphobic white men is all this book sounds like to me, and as a woman of color who dates white men, I could agree. However, I doubt Thomas’s convinctions in this book and feel she settled. I am not attracted to black men and would not settle with one to satisfy a biological clock – which is all this book seems to lead towards as its goal. Pedantic, too-long, too-demanding, insensitive, triggering, dismissive of the man’s responsibilities in a romantic relationship – shall I go on? In a phrase, I despise this book, and it is now in a box under my bed never to be read again. What a dreary thing it was.
One nice point about “Calling In The One”, though; it helped me become VERY clear on what it is, I find, I DO want: I have learned by doing the grueling worktasks in Thomas’s book that I actually don’t believe in soulmates, don’t want a man forever in my life, and would be very satisfied with a physically attractive and well-groomed, compliant, obedient, quiet male sex partner who SOMETIMES – when *I* ask it – joins me on my arm at the requisite parties and social appearances – then goes home, gets out of my face, and leaves me to my career, with which I am immensely happy and satisfied. “Settle”? Bah: the day I settle is the day I die.
Hint to Katherine: you CAN become pregnant and have a child WITHOUT A MAN, dear. You don’t have to settle and sell out. You come off in this book as everything weak and dependent we women today are trying to leave behind and kick kitty litter on top of with our heels as we walk away. Get it? Just thought you might like to know.
Awful book. Hated it page 1 to end. There are no soulmates. Settle for yourself and the right one will come – ON YOUR TERMS. No surrender, ladies. Forget this book’s name and do your soul some enormous good.
Rating: 1 / 5
Don’t buy this book ! The company signs you up for their “free” membership, then starts charging your card after it is expired. It’s about $30 every few months. There is NO WAY for you to cancel this charging. I had to contact my bank and ask them to deny every attempt at charging it.
It’s a MESS.
And for someone who is boasting in their book how to “get to your core” and “become that person you want to be”… she should SHAME herself for unathorized charges on credit cards…. especially in this economy.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book is extremely comprehensive. It covers almost every area I can think of. It is clear and enjoyable to read. Lots of exercises that, if completed, reveal much hidden information. I look forward to meeting my ‘one’!
Rating: 5 / 5