Happily Ever After… and 39 Other Myths About Love

According to married couple and bestselling authors Linda and Charlie Bloom, it's not so much the things we don't know about relationships that can hurt us but rather the things we THINK WE KNOW. These myths, from “they lived happily ever after” to “love means never to having to say you’re sorry” to “once a cheater, always a cheater”, permeate our culture and take root in our minds, preventing many couples from doing the work required to build a good, lasting relationship. The Blooms take on these myths, showing how they can destroy a relationship and how they are harmful to long-­term success. That’s just the beginning, they go on to demonstrate how to use these debunked myths as a starting point toward a better understanding of what it means to build a healthy, thriving relationship. Going beyond just challenging the validity of these myths, the book offers valuable suggestions for replacing them with more realistic and practical behaviors that enhance and strengthen intimate relationships. Each chapter presents an alternative to the myth and offers tools and suggestions for disproving harmful assumptions and instead adopting practices and skills that will keep your relationship growing. Happily Ever After . . . and 39 Other Myths about Love contains easily absorbed nuggets of wisdom and entertaining anecdotes, stories, and vignettes that illustrate the essential messages contained in each chapter. Some of the myths included are: “Frequent arguing is a sure sign that you’re married to the wrong person.” “Marriage is a fifty-­fifty proposition.” “All the good men / women are taken.” “Once you’ve lost that loving feeling, it’s gone, gone, gone.” “Little things aren’t worth getting upset about.” These and many other relationship myths are ever-­present in Western movies, pop music, romance novels, and self-­help books, yet they have little substantive foundation beyond a willingness on the part of the general population to accept them as factually true. As the Blooms’ book reveals, such unexamined acceptance can lead to disastrous consequences in the context of intimate partnerships. Fortunately, even die-­hard believers in relationship myths can avoid these consequences and become free from the grip of these and other misconceptions. Happily Ever After not only identifies and challenges these beliefs by providing compelling reasons why they are not valid, but does so with engaging and entertaining writing and story-­telling. The book guides readers as to how they can free themselves from the limits of these beliefs once they have been recognized. After reading this book, couples will find new ways to strengthen and heal their relationships and move toward the type of love they thought only occurred in myths! Publisher: NEW WORLD LIBRARY Paperback ISBN: 9781608683949 Dimensions: 21 and 14 cm Publish Date: 1/05/2016 Page Count: 256