Working through the depths of self-awareness using affirmations and emotional exercises, this book shows that loving relationships begin with self-love. Ray demonstrates how to find, achieve, and maintain deeper, more fulfilling relationships.

This beloved book has touched hundreds of thousands of lives with its profound and actionable advice. Retaining the core message of becoming more mindful in our relationships, this edition includes new and revised material that addresses how we live and love today. A new preface touches on David Richo’s experience with the book over time and outlines the key updates, including attention to online dating and modern communication styles as well as new perspectives on anger and ending relationships. “Most people think of love as a feeling,” says Richo, “but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present.” How to Be an Adult in Relationships explores five hallmarks of mindful loving and how they play a key role in our relationships. Adult love is based on a mutual commitment to what Richo calls the “five A’s”: attention, acceptance, appreciation, affection, and allowing. Brimming with practical exercises for couples and singles, How to Be an Adult in Relationships offers heartening insights into a lifelong journey of love. Topics include: • Becoming conscious of our relationship patterns and how they relate to childhood • Recognizing and attracting someone who can show adult love • Understanding the phases relationships go through • Creating and maintaining healthy boundaries • Overcoming fears of abandonment and engulfment • Expressing anger and other emotions in adult and loving ways • Surviving break-ups with our self-esteem intact • Understanding love as a spiritual journey

The author of "Rebuilding" has created a powerful, personal, practical, and provocative guide to building new and lasting, loving relationships. "Loving Choices" is packed with insights, exercises, and examples to help readers turn life's challenges into loving choices.

Using the metaphor of the heroic journeydeparture, struggle and returnthe author shows readers the way to psychological and spiritual health.

This book is for people who would like to have happier, healthier and more loving relationships than they currently do. It draws on a broad range of understanding and experience to deliver practical, tried and tested advice and useful insights. Relationships can be both simple and very complex things. Healthy Loving Relationships takes a personal, straightforward approach, exploring principles along with practise. This is no dry text book, but the result of years of real life learning from someone who really knows what it's like to feel utterly stuck, confused and frustrated in the area of personal relationships and who found a way through to understanding, success and happiness. In this book learn how to: * Resolve the obstacles that can block your path to having the healthy, loving relationship you want. * Overcome fears of intimacy, rejection and judgement. * Meet people and develop a beautiful connection. * Gain a deeper understanding of your friends, family and loved ones - and be better understood. * Turn conflict into collaboration. * Have a more fulfilling sex life. * Be happy in yourself. ... and much more!

In this exploration of loving and living, bestselling author Leo Buscaglia addresses the intricacies and challenges of love relationships. He asks such important questions, as: How do we best interweave our lives with our loved ones? Do we change our way of relating depending on the circumstances: If we fail in one relationship, can we succeed in others? In this exhilarating book, Leo doesn't give pat answers. He presents alternatives and suggests behavior that opens the way to truly loving each other. He recalls with heartwarming detail the importance of his own family and friendships in helping him to be open to grow and to love.