This book is about love as a Cosmic gift given to two people to awaken, strengthen, heal, and nourish their true selves. It is also about the Cosmic principles laid out in the I Ching that govern the love relationship. It shows, in a clear language, that by bringing ourselves into harmony with these principles, we can make our deepest and most meaningful relationships endure.
The best book I've ever read on love, relationships and all that jazz; but because it doesn't bullshit with easy platitudes and surface solutions, its core philosophy - that of the freedom and essential powerlessness of love to impose anything on anyone, is also difficult to apply. It depends so much on changing oneself, on keeping our ego in check, on meeting our own fears head-on, on meeting the other half-way, and above all, on 'suspending distrust', even during the most trying of times in a relationship.
It deals with all sorts of usual dysfunctional dynamics, from control to closing-off, from manipulation to the use of threats, from satiation to neediness. It is aimed at the love (romantic) relationship but is just as applicable to other important relationships. It shows how a strong and balanced self is necessary to develop good relationships. Although it's based on the principles of the I-Ching (Yi Jing), it's by no means necessary to know anything about that system.