Love Is a Verb: How to Stop Analyzing Your Relationship and Start Making It Great!

by Bill O'Hanlon, Pat Hudson, Patricia Hudson O'Hanlon

Book Overview

Even if you've discovered from the talk shows and the self-help books that you're afraid of intimacy or prone to self-destruction because of a miserable childhood, has it really helped? If not, it's time for action; it's time for Love Is a Verb.

Here is a fresh, new approach to relationships. The book goes beyond analyzing relationships to changing them, even if one partner isn't interested. Using a solution-oriented approach, humor, stories,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393037347
• ISBN13: 9780393037340
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

no self help book would ever get a five from me

so a four is as high as i go. fives are reserved for literature. my husband and i read this book when we were a new couple (seven years ago). he and i both had alcholic fathers and so we are very familiar with the self help genre. and although it does seem simplistic in some ways, i found it to be a most valuable book. if your relationship is at the point where you are afraid to sleep at night for fear of having your throat cut, this is not the book for you. (in fact there are no books for you run to a therapist) this book helps you become aware of the small things we do and can do for each other to hurt or help intimate relationships. its kind of like a "doc my arm hurts when i do that. so don't do that" book but it focuses on things that you will not see (unless you are more observant than i). if is helpful on a day to day level and my husband and i still pull it out and reread chapters when we find ourselves being testy with each other. i recommend this book to all people.