: Kim Tran Nguyen, Raymond Aaron
: LOVING FEARLESSLY
: 10-10-10 Publishing
: 9781772773729
: 1
: CHF 10.50
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: Partnerschaft, Sexualität
: English
: 180
: kein Kopierschutz
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: ePUB
Relationships are puzzles to some people and a minefield for others. If this describes you, or you are looking for the love of your life, this is your straightforward roadmap. You'll need to put in work and commitment, but the good news is that the 10 love principles that Kim Tran Nguyen writes about are values that will greatly enhance and enrich your love life. With this checklist of essentials that support lifelong love, you'll move from distrust to trust, from unslaked desire to erotic passion, and from distance and fear to courage and vulnerability. You'll communicate with authenticity, love with confidence, and receive with grace and gratitude. Love is worth fighting for. If you want to move through past heartbreaks, revitalize a mediocre relationship or discover greater fulfillment in your relationship, this book will help you create the life of your dreams.
Preface 1
 
IS THIS BOOK RIGHT FOR YOU?
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
Falling in love is one of the most exquisite and magical of human experiences. It is celebrated endlessly in literature, music, and movies. Love stories are elevating and give hope to those of us looking for that connection. But, the death of love is fêted. Heartbreak, tragedy, and breakups are just as rich fodder for books, pop tunes, and the screen, because staying in love is an altogether different challenge from falling in love.
Love can develop as a slow burn, a heat that needs to be nurtured in the same way tinder needs oxygen to burst into flame. Love can strike out of the blue, like lightning, when there is an instant flash of recognition between two people, and their lives are forever changed. However, too much of our modern day attention, the proliferation of online dating being a prime example, is devoted to finding love, to getting into a relationship, to getting out of loneliness.
It’s now easier to get “dates,” and there are lots of apps available to manage that, but it seems to be that we are trading volume for substance. We may know the right moves to hooking up, but we are losing out on meaningful connection and what follows after. We know all about “ghosting,” which is to suddenly disappear from a relationship without explanation, not even a text!
Ghosting suits people who don’t know how to handle emotional discomfort, but real life requires that we know how to discuss uncomfortable issues with a partner. Are we able to do that without anger or judgement if we can now take refuge behind an app or a text? To me, we are in fact trading down when it comes to love and intimacy, when we should be trading up.
So, I decided to try an experiment.
If you google “finding love” in the book category on Amazon, you’ll get at least 7,000 titles—books promising to turn you into a love magnet. Titles vary, fromFalling in Love for All the Right Reasons: How to Find Your Soul Mate, toGrindr Survivr: How to Find Happiness in the Age of Hookup Apps, toHow to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk—all fun stuff, but you get the drift.
Continuing the experiment further, I changed the search term to “stay in love,” and I got more than 232 results, most of them variations of the same theme: staying in love through bet