num_pages: 352
description: NEW YORK TIMES WALL STREET JOURNAL AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER  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 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 goopONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE The Wall Street JournalNot much is harder than figuring out how to love your partner in all their messy humannessand theres also not much thats 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 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 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 thats based on compassion collaboration and closeness. Us is a groundbreaking guide to a new science-backed skillsetone that will allow you to get past your knee-jerk reactions and tap into your wiser more collaborative self. With a novelists 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.
language: English
title: Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship
publisher: Rodale Books