‘Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love & Intimacy Alive In Committed Relationships’

This is the best psychology book I’ve read all year.

And it is the book I most need to read.

When I have love in my life, I put most of my emotions (providing that everything else in my life is in order) into that and I bob up and down depending on the success of my love life.

I don’t have a strong sense of self. I depend on the success of my love life to feel good about myself.

I’m up to page 151. Here’s an excerpt: “One property of marital systems is the vulnerability of increasing importance of one’s partner: your partner’s increasing importance over time naturally increases your vulnerability, which in turn fosters sexual boredom and low desire.”

Dr. Schnarch begins the book with this point — nobody is ready for marriage. Marriage makes you ready for marriage.

About Luke Ford

I've written five books (see Amazon.com). My work has been covered in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and on 60 Minutes. I teach Alexander Technique in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com).
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