How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
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Celebrating twenty years of the bestselling guide to love and relationships from psychotherapist David Richo 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 some-one 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 Review: A must read ! Great book on self and shadow work ! - A must read for someone who truly wants to understand relationships and intimacy in the light of mindfulness !...I have become a fan of David Richo and find his 5 keys of "Attention, Acceptance, Appreciation,Affection and Allowing" so useful in opening the locks to the paradise gates of this myriad world of human to human relationships. He nails the entire Hindu concept of Maya when he says "What a poignant paradox about us humans : we seek what we cannot receive from those who are unable to give it.We hold on desperately and ineffectually to that which cannot provide what we think we need. This book is more than psychology.more than philosophy and more than any other treatise on self-work and shadow work than any other book I've read till date !.... Imbibing the concepts of Buddhism and mindfulness the book takes us through a path interspersed with poetry and enigmatic sayings !!....A must must must read ,First time to know,second time to understand and imbibe and third time to heal yourself !!!👍👍👍👌👌 Review: A wonderful book - A wonderful book to read. Makes good better. Wiser wiser
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| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,504 Reviews |
T**A
A must read ! Great book on self and shadow work !
A must read for someone who truly wants to understand relationships and intimacy in the light of mindfulness !...I have become a fan of David Richo and find his 5 keys of "Attention, Acceptance, Appreciation,Affection and Allowing" so useful in opening the locks to the paradise gates of this myriad world of human to human relationships. He nails the entire Hindu concept of Maya when he says "What a poignant paradox about us humans : we seek what we cannot receive from those who are unable to give it.We hold on desperately and ineffectually to that which cannot provide what we think we need. This book is more than psychology.more than philosophy and more than any other treatise on self-work and shadow work than any other book I've read till date !.... Imbibing the concepts of Buddhism and mindfulness the book takes us through a path interspersed with poetry and enigmatic sayings !!....A must must must read ,First time to know,second time to understand and imbibe and third time to heal yourself !!!👍👍👍👌👌
A**R
A wonderful book
A wonderful book to read. Makes good better. Wiser wiser
P**N
Must know
Super
B**U
Wastage of time
Bad..very bad. Just one idea and have written pages and pages on that...try utilizing the paper and time for writing better books. Readers who value their time..avoid it.
N**T
The book is a printed knockoff from this particular seller
I ordered the book under the impression that it was ok, but not only did it arrive shredded from one side, the entire print on the inside was wonky, rotated and a displeasure. I have asked for a replacement and if that arrives in the same shape, i am going straight for a refund and would not recommend it
N**I
Total Waste
Wastage of money and time. Could not get through a few pages of the book Same thing repeated again and again and with no feeling in the writing
K**.
Very poor quality ink.
The ink quality used in the print is poor and the letters seem to be broken because of this. While reading you can concentrate.
K**R
Poor Quality Print and delivery
The book was received damaged from its side. Print quality is beyond poor and seems like a photocopy of the original.
C**A
good item
good item
A**A
Muy bien libro
De los mejores libros que abordan el tema de relaciones interpersonales. Práctico, bien fundamentado .
R**R
A really useful way to explore if you have a healthy, adult style in relationships
Worth a read whether we are encountering a new relationship, in the midst of one or leaving one. I highly recommend it. It requires you to do a lot of work but you can read it without the practices as an initial run through and still gain a lot of information which you can then use to see which excercises to prioritise.
M**Y
The 5 A's are something we all need to practice.
This could be one of the best books I've read. Some things I should have learned long ago in life but, sadly, it took me a while to get here. The 5 A's are something we all need to share with ourselves, our friends and family but, most of all, our partners in life.
A**.
Very useful book for relationships!
Lovely book to help one navigate one's way through relationships in general. HIghly readable and definitely offers good advice one can apply in one's life.
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