The Feel the Fear Guide to Lasting Love
Author(s):
Susan Jeffers
Label: Jeffers Press
Publisher(s):
Jeffers Press
Studio: Jeffers Press
Manufacturer: Jeffers Press
Binding: Hardcover
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Product Description
The Feel the Fear Guide to Lasting Love speaks to everyone of us--whether we're in a troubled relationship...looking for the right mate...happily partnered...or considering whether to move on, it shows us how to push through the fear and negativity that erode relationships, and embrace a life-affirming approach to love.
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The Feel the Fear Guide to Lasting Love
Lasting, unconditional love is probably the one thing that we all really want and need in our lives yet it is probably the hardest thing to actually receive. Most of us look to others to prove their love for us. We test them and measure them against some Hollywood version of what true love should look like. When our love doesn't quite look like that fantasy, we immediately begin to blame our significant other.
Feel the Fear Guide to Lasting Love reminds the reader that healthy lasting love comes in many different forms. There is no one right relationship and no perfect romance. Lasting love takes commitment, communication, and effort. Moreover, in order to feel love, we need to take fear of rejection and finger pointing out of the equation entirely. A healthy relationship is based upon genuine respect for every aspect of your lover, even when you don't quite understand it.
The Feel the Fear Guide to Lasting Love
The subject of a successful love relationship has been tried to banality in innumerable publications. While most of them might be out in the print for making bucks, Susan Jeffers' latest book The Feel the Fear Guide to Lasting Love (Jeffers Press, California, 2005) is one winning endeavor of showing the path to a lasting love life. Jeffers, who has been titled with `the Queen of Self-Help', presents secret lessons of love that make one's person lovable rather than tiring oneself out in finding an ideal mate. It teaches how to be the ideal mate.
The conversational style of Susan Jeffers befriends the reader since the first page. Her openness inspires when she confesses that her meaningful knowledge of love did not come from her university degrees but from her personal experience of marriage, divorce, dating, and remarrying. Thus she discovered the higher purpose of love, becoming a more loving person, and she generously shares it with her readers.
Jeffers makes the important distinction between `selfish love' and `real love'. She peeps into the politics of relationships and redefines power as control over one's own actions and reactions and not as controlling others. Revealing the vitality of communication to the happiness of a relationship, Jeffers speaks about maintaining a happy sex life well into the advance age. Impact of problems related to children and in-laws, money, and betrayal of trust are taken up and cogently resolved in the light of self-purification.
Perhaps the most significant aspect of Susan Jeffers' book is her advice on seeing beyond the stereotyped concept of ideal love that permanently blocks our way to happiness. For example the picture of love as carved in the traditional way of thought by characters of long-adored fairy tales and literature of romance. Hence the humbug of love at first sight and other clichés. Shaking us out of the inertia of stereotyped gender roles, the author stresses nurturing essential human qualities of strength, assertiveness, rationality, protection, and so on. Her question `Find one reason not to end the war between the sexes' stuns the rational mind.
Redundancy does show in the book. There is repetition. Nevertheless, The Feel the Fear Guide to Lasting Love does not bore and as a whole remains enjoyable. Words of wisdom from great brains give each chapter a lovely start. No denying that Jeffers' book is valid in all relationships and not restricted to romance or sexual life. It creates an openness that leads straight to the diseased root of unhealthy relationships. Its audience encircles all who have anything to do with any sort of human relationship.
Well-written zest for life
Dr. Susan Jeffers has a written an eloquent ode to true love, including a detailed and somewhat innovative way to define it and specific ways to show it. She uses her own life experience, and information gathered through interviewing couples, Dr. Jeffers creates a model for a strong, loving relationship, and a big part of it is not holding back true feelings, nor expressing that which is not genuinely felt. This book gives a happy, detailed, empowering, thoughtful approach to improving one's relationships and way of viewing love. Even our fears and pain are part of who we are, and can be transformed into pathways for love.
After saying those nice things, why did I hold back that fifth star? This well-written book is thoughtful, inspirational, and likely to help many people, but there is little here that is truly original. It just did not affect to quite the degree as, say, Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning." In short, this book is very good, but not more than that.
A must read
This is a great book not only because it explains what love is, but more importantly, what good relationships require. As a man who has been happily married for more than sixteen years, there was some initial reluctance to read this kind of material, but having read it I found little things that I could use to help my wife and communicate more clearly. I think this book will be helpful to anyone who reads it, even those, like me, who initially don't think they need help.
I was Really Impressed
Susan Jeffers loving approaches the common problems that everyone faces at one time or another-self esteem and relationships-in a refreshing change from conventional wisdom which often seems to emphasize other people's faults rather than looking within.
This is a book that will help any person who has an open mind and heart. If person is not yet open, this book will go some way in dissolving any resistance. This book is intelligent and inspiring.
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