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While most of us have moments of loving freely and openly, it is often hard to sustain this where it matters most—in our intimate relationships. Why, if love is so great and powerful, are human relationships so challenging and difficult? If love is the source of happiness and joy, why is it so hard to open to it fully and let it govern our lives? In this book, John Welwood addresses these questions and shows us how to overcome the most fundamental obstacle that keeps us from experiencing love's full flowering in our lives. Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships begins by showing how all our relational problems arise out of a universal, core wounding around love that affects not only our personal relationships but the quality of life in our world as a whole. This wounding shows up as a pervasive mood of unlove—a deep sense that we are not intrinsically lovable just as we are. And this shuts down our capacity to trust, so that even though we may hunger for love, we have difficulty opening to it and letting it circulate freely through us. This book takes the reader on a powerful journey of healing and transformation that involves learning to embrace our humanness and appreciate the imperfections of our relationships as trail-markers along the path to great love. It sets forth a process for releasing deep-seated grievances we hold against others for not loving us better and against ourselves for not being better loved. And it shows how our longing to be loved can magnetize the great love that will free us from looking to others to find ourselves. Written with penetrating realism and a fresh, lyrical style that honors the subtlety and richness of our relationship to love itself, this revolutionary book offers profound and practical guidance for healing our lives as well as our embattled world.A workshop based on this book is also available in audio. For more information, click here.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 30 reviews)

perfect explanation by N. Hamlin (Marquette, MI USA)

5 Stars
October 27, 2009
I haven't even finished reading it, but know I want to buy it for all my loved ones. If we don't come to understand why we "do the things we don't want to do, and don't do the things we want to do" we will never know world peace. Peace begins in our heart, and in our relationships, then will extend outwards to the world. I hope everyone gets this message, whether through Welwood's awesome book or other modalities. It's crucial for our continuance as a species.

perfect..or too high an ecpectation? www.singlefilm.com by Doc enthusiast (New York)

4 Stars
February 20, 2009
This book really gets to the heart of perfection....but is it attainable? I found "Single a documentary film" really covered this is well. www.singlefilm.com It's available on Amazon.com as DVD or Digital down load.

Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart by Michele L. Thompson (California)

4 Stars
September 25, 2008
Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships is a tender book based on clinical sound concepts and essential spiritul truths that transcend any one spiritual path. It is a human work of love for each of us to imbibe whether we are professionals, seekers or simply want to feel loved and safe. Michele Thompson LMFT

Robbing Stephen Levine by M. Haber (Santa Cruz , CA USA)

3 Stars
September 14, 2008
Welwood is a good writer whose books read smoothly. My problem is that he borrows most of his ideas from people like author Stephen Levine. Read Levine's book "Embracing the beloved: Relationship as a path of awakening" or "Gradual Awakening" and see what I'm talking about for yourself. Levine's books predate Welwood's by 10 and 30 years so there's no question about whose robbing who.

Success again. by Francis Xavier (San Francisco Bay Area)

5 Stars
August 26, 2008
As a psychotherapist with 30 years experience, who works with couples, I consider this book to be one of the best for therapists of all levels of training. My colleagues and I agree that the best way to use this book is to savor its contents, digesting the lessons slowly, perhaps even reading sections to clients. Welwood is a gifted writer,centered in his psychospiritual approach without neglecting important aspects of patient-therapist connection.

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