Table of Contents/ List of Topics Covered:
Introduction
- Chapter 1: Decoding Relationship Behavior
- Chapter 2: Dependency is not a Bad Word
Part 1: Your Relationship Toolkit - Deciphering Attachment Styles
- Chapter 3: Step one: What is My Attachment Style?
- Chapter 4: Step two: Cracking the Code - What is my Partner's Style?
Part 2: The Three Attachment Styles in Everyday Life
- Chapter 5: Living with a Sixth Sense for Danger: The Anxious Attachment Style
- Chapter 6: Keeping Love at Arm's Length: The Avoidant Attachment Style
- Chapter 7: Getting Comfortably Close: The Secure Attachment Style
Part 3: When Attachment Styles Clash
- Chapter 8: The Anxious-Avoidant Trap
- Chapter 9: Escaping The Anxious-Avoidant Trap
- Chapter 10: When Abnormal Becomes the Norm: An Attachment Guide to Breaking Up
Part 4: The Secure Way - Sharpening Your Relationship Skills
- Chapter 11: Effective Communication: Getting the Message Across
- Chapter 12: Working Things Out: Five Secure Principles for Dealing with Conflict
What You Get:
Hardcover (304 pages)
Guarantee / Terms: N/A
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Excellent!
I've been doing personal growth work for about 13 years, and this book hit the bulls eye for me. It described me to a T and gave me tools to stop repeating the pattern. It's a game-changer. I highly recommend it for anyone in serial relationships.
The authors' founding principle is that everyone's intimacy needs are valid, which may be true and/or helpful, but then they turn around and crap on the needs of avoidantly attached people. The book is written for anxiously attached people (who are the market for relationship books). As an avoidantly attached person, I didn't get a whole lot of insight into myself out of this.
I gave the book a mixed review because some of the information is interesting, such as the deactivating strategies.
What I really want is a guide for moving towards secure attachment.
