Healthy Relationships Publishing: 7 books

Most of us are, have been, or will be involved in a significant love relationship. When we know the signs of healthy love, our chances of achieving fulfillment in our love for another increase. This pamphlet outlines the characteristics of mature, healthy love and suggests how to avoid dependent or addictive relationships.

Best selling author and psychologist Dr. Brenda Schaeffer (Is It Love or Is It Addiction) brings you a groundbreaking book that examines teen love, sex and romance and shows teens and parents how to create healthy relationships through true stories, quizzes, and practical advice. The book explains...

Addictive love for another person limits our ability to experience real love. The author suggests ways we can meet our own needs, enabling us to love another from a healthy perspective. The self-help exercises help us identify the roots of our love addiction and lead us toward self-love and self-discovery.

Addiction to a person is not the same as true love. The author discusses twenty characteristics of love addiction. When we identify addictive elements in our relationships, we can learn to change them, building on the best aspects of our love for another.

Most people, at some time, will be involved in a significant love relationship. The pamphlet discusses the unhealthy power struggles between partners in dependent relationships, offering suggestions for behavior changes which lead to the mutual respect of mature love.

Love speaks to us directly in this book, and its voice is strong. Besides telling us what love is and is not, love offers body, ego, soul and spirit challenging assignments that assure a vibrant love life and walk us into the 21st Century. Chock-full of modern insight, ancient wisdom, and stories...

To move to mature love we must learn to share power with others. The author discusses power sharing as an alternative to power plays, describes how true power develops, presents ten skills to help us power share and lists twenty-three signs of power sharing.