Happily Ever After and 39 Other Myths About Love: Breaking Through to the Relationship of Your Dreams - Tapa blanda

"Every couple will become wiser by reading this book."
-- Harville Hendrix, PhD, coauthor of Making Marriage Simple

"Love experts Linda and Charlie Bloom shine a bright light, busting the most common myths about relationships. Using real-life examples, they skillfully provide effective strategies and tools to create and grow a deeply loving and fulfilling long-term connection."
-- Arielle Ford, author of Turn Your Mate into Your Soulmate

"A rubber-meets-the-road guide to preparing for the rigors (and rewards) of love. High five to the Blooms for telling it like it is."
-- Gregg Levoy, author of Vital Signs and Callings

"Wise, honest, personal, and deeply engaging...this much-needed book is recommended for singles and couples alike."
-- Linda Carroll, author of Love Cycles

"I've been helping many people who think differently relate to each other for four decades. Oh, how I wish I could have slipped this book under each one's pillow! This is a brilliant, rational guide to sorting through relational confusion."
-- Dawna Markova, coauthor of Collaborative Intelligence and author of Spot of Grace

"Another brilliant contribution by this remarkable couple to everyone struggling to create a relationship that works...This is a book about freedom -- about transformation -- and it's a must-read for anyone seeking to create a truly fulfilling partnership!"
-- Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money

Praise for the Blooms' Secrets of Great Marriages "The Blooms have captured the essence of true partnership and what it involves.... This book provides compelling evidence that no matter who we are, we can develop the skills to create truly extraordinary relationships."
-- Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love

"You'll do more than enjoy reading these hope-filled vignettes of couples who were able to discern and overcome the unconscious myth that blocked their loving connection. You'll likely also discern the myth that blocks happiness in your own relationship."
-- Sylvia Boorstein, PhD, author of Happiness Is an Inside Job

"In Happily Ever After . . ., Linda and Charlie Bloom deconstruct the most common myths about love and commitment in a thoughtful and compassionate way. The Blooms deeply understand the obstacles that hold people back from lasting love and provide readers with sensible workarounds to each of these obstacles. This book will challenge some of your most deeply held beliefs about love and marriage, ultimately freeing you to make better choices in love."
-- Kira Asatryan, author of Stop Being Lonely: Three Simple Steps to Developing Close Friendships and Deep Relationships

"Bravo to the Blooms for providing this important clue for removing the invisible roadblocks that prevent relationships from flourishing."
-- Seymour Boorstein, MD, author of Who's Talking Now: Saving Your Relationship

"We applaud Linda and Charlie Bloom for their conciseness, skill, and dedication to myth busting. If you want an authentic relationship, read this book!"
-- Joyce Vissell, RN, MS, and Barry Vissell, MD, authors of The Shared Heart

All you need is love” and Marriage is a 50-50 proposition” are ideas many of us have absorbed. The advice we’ve gotten from friends, family, and clergy and the stories in movies, music, and fiction feed these notions. (See the blockbuster book and movieLove Story for Myth 7: Love Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry.) Ideas about love banishing loneliness or making life perfect are also, undeniably, appealing. Renowned, and married, therapists Linda and Charlie Bloom aren’t here to rain on parades or lower expectations. As they deconstruct misconceptions using true couple stories they replace them with the often-uplifting truth. Freed from the notions that don’t apply to most actual human beings, readers can use the realistic, practical, and truly loving practices the Blooms offer. Bite-size chapters that are as entertaining as they are instructive make this the kind of guide that allows real relationship dreams to come true.