Love Is Not Enough : What It Takes to Make It Work [Hardcover]

This helpful guide to building lasting relationships focuses on the personalities of the partners and introduces ways to build enduring compatibility.

Love is Not Enough: What It Takes to Make it Workexplores why couples fall into the same types of relationship traps time and again and offers sound advice, based on extensive research and real case stories, for recognizing and combating the forces that can sink a promising relationship.

While it is true that opposites can attract, irrevocably opposed personalities and habits cannot sustain a relationship. How can you foresee one partner being the immovable object to the other's irrepressible force? AsLove is Not Enoughshows, it is all about personalityyours, your potential partner's, and how the two mesh. Thoroughly grounded in the realities of relationships today, the book helps readers recognize and understand interactions among different personality types. Each chapter offers carefully considered wisdom on how to resolve particular differences in a relationship and break through to the kind of awareness and understanding that invariably makes things work.

Henry Kellerman, PhD, is a psychologist/psychoanalyst in private practice in New York, NY.With minimal jargon, a psychologist/psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City gives practical advice on intimate relationships. With case examples, he explains what each individual's personality contributes to the drama and which emotional styles (of 20 described) promote or hinder compatibility. Self-assessments help readers identify what they are doing to help or hurt a relationship. Reference & Research Book News

Introduction
Part One: Your Relationship
PREVIEW
1 Getting Close in the Relationship
What Is the Goal of a Good Relationship?
Is It Possible That Everyone Marries for the Wrong Reason?
Values versus Personality
Suffering and Perslƒ²