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About this book
All of us want to be fully accepted in our relationships, yet it can be difficult to fully accept our partners for who they are. This insightful guide for couples is based on a simple concept: Act out of kindness, love, and acceptance, and you will open your relationship for the creation of greater kindness, love, and acceptance.
With strategies drawn from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a powerful therapeutic approach, this book will help you identify your core values and discover, as a couple, the beauty that is available to you and your partner when you bring greater awareness and values-guided behavior to your relationship. Each chapter explores a key issue, such as passion, fidelity, and the balance between dependence and independence, and includes specific practices you can do alone or with your partner to help you build a vital relationship.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Living a Mindful and Vital Relationship
- 2 Authenticity
- 3 Integrity
- 4 Faithfulness
- 5 Passion
- 6 Kindness
- 7 Love
- 8 Acceptance in Relationships
- 9 Expectations and Disappointments
- 10 Dependence and Independence
- 11 Quirks
- 12 Aging and Other Physical Changes
- 13 Acceptance and Family
- 14 The Adventure of It All
- 15 Taking a Step Back
- 16 Fairness
- 17 Humor
- 18 Letting Go of Power and Control
- 19 The Power of Slow
- 20 Mindfulness
- 21 Finding Beauty
- 22 Calm in the Midst of the Storm
- 23 Playfulness
- 24 Flow
- 25 A Place for Empathy
- 26 Growth
- 27 Sacred Space
- 28 Being
- 29 Enlightenment
- 30 Relating from a Place of Wholeness
- 31 Committed Action in Relationships
- 32 Courageous Loving
- 33 Trusting and Being Trustworthy
- 34 The Power of Forgiveness
- 35 Committed Friends
- 36 Romantically Committed
- Conclusion
- References