Receiving Love

Letting Yourself Be Loved Will Transform Your Relationship

By: Harville Hendrix Ph.D. Ph.D., Helen LaKelly Hunt Ph.D. Ph.D.

Narrated by: Helen LaKelly Hunt Ph.D. Ph.D., Harville Hendrix Ph.D. Ph.D.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find comes illuminating and inspiring advice on one of the most complicated issues facing couples today: receiving love.

Many people know how to give love, but many more undermine their relationships by never having learned how to accept it. We don't always realize the ways in which we reject appreciation, affection, help, and guidance from our romantic partners. According to Hendrix and Hunt, until we are able to understand the meaning behind our behavior, our relationships stand to suffer.

Receiving Love prompts questions such as:

-Are you reluctant to tell your partner what you really want or need?
-When you do get what you've asked for, do you still feel dissatisfied?
-Is it difficult for you to accept kind gestures, gifts, or compliments from your partner?

With Receiving Love, you can learn how to break the shackles of self-rejection and embrace real intimacy. Drawing on their renowned expertise, the wide clinical experience of Imago therapists, and their own personal experience as a married couple, the authors offer detailed, sensitive advice on how to turn a relationship between two well-meaning yet misunderstood individuals into a true, everlasting partnership.©2004 Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt; (P)2004 Simon & Schuster Inc. SOUND IDEAS is an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster Inc.

Food for those in the world starving.

This is book is what I've needed in my life, more than any other. Listening to the authors read it made me realize I've been starving for good food for a long, long time. I have never allowed beautiful women to love me, even tho they have tried over and over. My parents were at times very critical of me, and I didn't understand why, other than to believe I wasn't good enough to be loved by anyone. The world was at times very critical of me, for being a man, a white man, a college graduate, a physics graduate, an ethical man, an unemployed man, an old man, a fat man, a man with PTSD from my military service. I felt no one could possibly love me. And, I struck back. I hated others for having so little understanding and kindness in their intelligence. I needed to read this book to put the pieces of my life together.

just what I needed

my childhood keeps showing up in my marriage and this book showed me how it manifests. I appreciated the viewpoints of the authors and the stories of couple that illustrated the learning I needed. I especially appreciated learning how to turn my anger into compassion for my husband.

very good insight on. accepting

I got some great skills on learning how to take something I dislike in a partner, dig deeper why they do that, and see if that is something I do that I dislike about myself, or is it something I don't do that I dislike about myself. Never hurts to reflect.

Also, thinking a relationship and being safe is a number 1 priority is a big shift. Also to think of a relationship as a healing mechanism.

So practical and I can’t wait to work though the attached work book

We all need this! The world is broken and this how to book is precious.

Eye opening to my pass failing relationships

It's an eye opening; Mid of Chapter 2 through Chapter 3 was the light bulb.