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 goop
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal
Not much is harder than figuring out how to love your partner in all
their messy humanness--and there's also not much that's 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 news:
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 results:
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 that's
based on compassion, collaboration, and closeness.
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Us* is a groundbreaking guide to a new science-backed skillset--one that
will allow you to get past your knee-jerk reactions and tap into your
wiser, more collaborative self. With a novelist's 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.
