Relationships

Written by Campus London LTD (The School of Life)

Narrated by Fiona Buckland

A fresh approach to matters of the heart, teaching us that success in love need never again be just a matter of luck.

Love has a history and we ride—sometimes rather helplessly—on its currents. Since around 1750, we have been living in a highly distinctive era in the history of love that we can call Romanticism. And it has been a disaster for love.

Relationships challenges the assumptions of the Romantic view of love. It shows how to develop new attitudes that can lead to a psychologically mature vision of love:

• That it is OK that love and sex may not always belong together
• That discussing money early on, in a serious way, is not a betrayal of love
• That realizing that we are rather flawed, and our partner is too, is of huge benefit to a couple
• That we will never find everything we need in another person, nor they in us
• That spending two hours discussing whether bathroom towels should be hung up or can be left on the floor has its own dignity

Full of applied real-life examples, and enlivened throughout with humor and cultural anecdote, this innovative guide paves the way to a new, brighter future for love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The School of Life
• Release date: Jan 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781912891702

Campus London LTD (The School of Life)

The School of Life is a groundbreaking enterprise which offers good ideas for everyday living. Founded in 2008, The School of Life runs a diverse range of programmes and services which address questions of personal fulfilment and how to lead a better life. Drawing insights from philosophy, psychology, literature, the visual arts and sciences, The School of Life offers evening classes, weekends, conversation meals and other events that explore issues relating to big themes such as Love,Work, Play, Self, Family and Community.

Reviews for Relationships

[Justin Bos · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Book is great. See my review for the book version. While the recording artist is fine the editing is a bit poor. You can easily tell where parts were recorded at different times. The tone or intonation of how the sections are read shifts for certain paragraphs. It would be fine if that were a chapter related issue but the way it is in this reading isn't great.
I give the book a five stars but the reading of it a 3. It's bearable but not great.

[Ahmad H. Moshrif · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

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