The Pathway to Love: Create Intimacy and Transform Your Relationships Through Self-Discovery

by Julie Orlov

In The Pathway to Love, Julie Orlov reveals the secrets to creating more understanding, acceptance and love in your relationships. Through the art of storytelling, Orlov allows you to experience how relationships grow from fantasy to real love in four phases. This book not only empowers you to create the relationship you want, but demonstrates how your relationships mirror back what you need to see, thereby providing the perfect conditions to heal, grow, and transform. In The Pathway to Love you will -Distinguish real love from fantasy, including the different ways we express and receive love. -Understand the issues and gifts inherent in each phase of your developing relationship. -Transform your reactions into understanding and acceptance of yourself and others. -Enhance your interpersonal relationships, improve your relationships at work, and feel better about yourself.

Genres: Self Help

212 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2010

Reviews

[mark reed · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful book about understanding your relationship and yourself.

The author REALLY knows her subject & communicates clearly the information she provides. I liked the case studies very much. They were genuine & very helpful. I would highly recommend this book to anyone like myself that wants to be a good, loving partner.

[Kari · Rating 4 out of 5]

The premise of this book is to learn about four phases of relationships, with some concluding chapters to wrap up the book. I felt that the first three phases were dead on in terms of analyzing the properties and situations that often accompany beginning and maintaining a relationship (the first phase I actually felt nauseous because it described me to a T). I wasn't a huge fan of the fourth phase. It might be because I didn't really agree with the premise of it, or it could have been attributed to the fact that the story/anecdote the author included was not the best example, in my opinion.

This book was exceptionally well-written, and very comprehensive. It was shorter than I expected, but I suppose because it was a pretty quick read. I felt like mostly everything the author/psychotherapist was saying was accurate, although the author did basically write a disclaimer in the introductory section (as she well should have) saying that this book was a product of her findings as a therapist. As well as saying that this book was not a book of absolute truths. That can only be expected, as there are millions of different types of people in the world, therefore psychology cannot be an exact science. In spite of that, I was very impressed at how the author skillfully wrote this book, and clearly made an attempt to show biological, emotional, and cognitive aspects of love.