Product Description
Harville Hendrix has illuminated the paths to loving, long-lasting relationships in his New York Times bestsellers Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find. Now, with coauthor and wife Helen LaKelly Hunt, he brings us to a new understanding about one of the most complicated issues facing couples today:Receiving LoveMany men and women know how to give love, but many more undermine their relationships by never having learned how to accept it. We … More >>
Receiving Love: Transform Your Relationship by Letting Yourself Be Loved
According to these PhD authors, it is easier to give love than to receive it. It goes back to our childhoods when a parent failed to nurture and rejected the person who depended on him for her very life. When a mother is absent, and a mean uncaring father ignores the daughter, she ends up with a complex which clearly says “Nobody can love me, so why try.”
When we get grown, even married to a noncaring, sick man, it is impossible to get the love we want and need. Sometimes, you just have to look elsewhere. And that’s not good for the children. Oh yes, you can have children without loving the father of those children. Sometimes, it is forced on you; sometimes it is taken from you when an abusive husband forces the wife to have an abortion, because He does not want to spend money to raise another one.
In this book, there is a guide to help one break the shackles of self-hate and -rejection, and to accept love from others. So often, what they are offering is not love, so you must weigh the issues and try to come to a logical (not emotional) conclusion. Your very life depends on it.
First, you must accept what is offered, but not indiscriminately. Be sure it is love and not lust. All women are “used” on occasion, but if possible you must not give in. The authors of this guide to help you to decipher true love from false promises look to be a couple. There is a science to any relationship; learning to accept love from the person you do love will make you whole again. We all have the potential to love freely and devotedly.
However, you can love more than one man at a time!
Rating: 3 / 5
This book is a great resource for yourself and the people you truly care about who have a tremendous ability to GIVE love, but find it difficult to actually enable themselves to truly RECEIVE it. It’s a very practical, insightful and significant piece of the whole circle of love puzzle. Josephine Thomson, MCC
Rating: 5 / 5
Imago relationship theory helps people to understand the complicated ways that influence partner section and the interactions between people who love each other and why it feels so good and so bad to be in relationship. This book expands the book “Getting the love You Want” and helps to explore the new ideas related to self sabotage and encouragement for developing behaviors that help people to accomplish interpersonal goals. I appreciate the concepts and grounded messages related to the personal experiences of the Hendrix/ Hunt couple experience.
Rating: 5 / 5
I think this is essential reading for reflection for ALL couples whether they have been married one day or eighty years
Rating: 5 / 5
The book was received in a timely manner and the condition was as promised.
Have just finished reading “Getting the Love you Want” by the same author. He has the best way of presenting & teaching that I’ve ever experienced with a writer on this subject matter. And, wonderful exercises are included at the end to enable readers to practice application of what they’ve just read. Very helpful.
Rating: 5 / 5