Us

Getting Past You & Me to Build a More Loving Relationship

De: Terrence Real

Narrado por: Terrence Real, Bruce Springsteen

Stop working on yourself as an individual and start working on your relationship as a couple, with the help of the renowned family therapist and bestselling author of The New Rules of Marriage

“This book is a road map for all of us who seek true intimacy.”—GWYNETH PALTROW, founder and CEO of goop

Not much is harder than figuring out how to love your partner in all their messy humanness—and there’s also not much that’s more important.

At a time when toxic individualism is rending our society at every level, bestselling author and renowned marriage counselor Terrence Real sees how it poisons intimate relationships in his therapy practice, where he works with couples on the brink of disaster. The good news: Warmer, closer, more passionate relationships are possible if you have the right tools.

In his transformative new book Us, Real brilliantly observes how our winner-takes-all culture infiltrates families with devastating results: repetitive fights that go nowhere, or a distant relationship in which partners end up living “alone together.” With deft insight, humor, and charm, Real guides you to transform your relationship into one that’s based on compassion, collaboration, and closeness.

Us is a groundbreaking guide to a new science-backed skillset—one that will allow you to get past your knee-jerk reactions and tap into your wiser, more collaborative self. With a novelist’s flair, Real shares the stories of couples whose relationships have been saved by these skills and pans out to the culture that reinforces our dysfunction. If you and your partner are backed into separate corners of “you” and “me,” this book will show the way back to “us.” With Us, your true relationship can begin.

*Includes a downloadable PDF of charts and diagrams from the book

Landmark

A great book that embeds some classic Terry-isms along with some new and groundbreaking insights. Grateful to have read/listened to this book.

Great, but overreaching

The discovery and model for the family dynamic is spot on and revolutionary. The author tries to apply this model to society, but is a bit of a stretch. The author suffers from white guilt and privilege and attempts to connect all white people with his own feelings. if you know when to fast forward it is a great work.

US

I really enjoyed this book and plan to listen to it again. So much insightful information!

Insightful

Very profound and revolutionary since it challenges the dominant worldview of individualism and patriarchalism that poison our intimate relationships

Accessible

Clear logical and and but and and but and and and true and and challenging and unique thoughtful and