Lasting Love
LASTING LOVE
The 5 Secrets of Growing a Vital, Conscious Relationship
Gay Hendricks, Ph.D.
and Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D.
Authors of CONSCIOUS LOVING
and THE CONSCIOUS HEART
This follow-up ebook to the best-selling book Conscious Loving takes on two of the most pressing problems that sap vitality and energy from our committed relationship: how to forge a closer relationship that still allows each partner full creative autonomy, and how to generate the passion and preserve the harmony essential to keeping long-term partnerships alive and blooming.
Lasting Love grew out of the laboratory of our 28-year marriage as well as our 10-year study of more than 2,000 long-term committed couples. We discovered that the most common couples conflicts could be traced to at least one of five root causes:
- An imbalance between the creative energy each partner contributes to the relationship
- A lack of emotional honesty
- An unwillingness to accept responsibility for everyday issues
- Deep-seated commitment issues
- A deficiency of daily appreciations
Using these insights as a starting point, we devised a program based on five vital actions that simultaneously lead to a deeper flow of intimacy between partners and greater creative freedom for each individual.
- Spend time expressing your own creativity rather than focusing on "fixing" your partner
- Eliminate the barrier to speaking and hearing the truth about everything
- Break the cycle of blame and criticism permanently
- Make commitments you can really stand by, come home to and use to steer your relationship
- Become a master of verbal and non-verbal appreciation
Filled with helpful real-life scenarios and straightforward advice, Lasting Love is an essential guide for anyone involved in a relationship who wants it not only to last but to flourish.
Content:
Introduction: Your New Path to Harmony and Vitality
- Five Secrets of Lasting Love
- The First Secret: A New Kind of Commitment Gets You Started
- The Second Secret: A New Way of Being with Emotions
- The Third Secret: The No-blame Relationship and How to Create It
- The Fourth Secret: A New Kind of Creativity
- The Fifth Secret: Tandem Acts of Kindness
- Appendix 1: The Five Secrets at Work: In-Depth Couple's Interview
- Appendix 2: Lasting Love Day to Day: Ten Powerful Activities from Our Seminars
- Appendix 3: Relationship ER: Rapid Solutions for Urgent Relationship Concerns
Love and Blessings,


