Getting the Love You Want Workbook: The New Couples' Study Guide

by Harville Hendrix, Helen LaKelly Hunt Ph.D.

This newly revised and updated companion study guide to the 2019 edition of the New York Times bestseller Getting the Love You Want .

In 1988, Harville Hendrix, in partnership with his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, published a terrifically successful relationship guide called Getting the Love You Want. The book introduced thousands to their Imago Relationship Therapy, a unique healing process for couples, prospective couples, and parents, and developed into an overnight sensation. For their part, Doctors Hendrix and Hunt managed to aid scores of couples in their plight for more loving, supportive, and deeply satisfying relationships. Now, more than a decade later, this companion book picks up where its predecessor left off, delving further into relationship therapy to help transform relationships into lasting sources of love and companionship.

The Getting the Love You Want Workbook is designed for the hundreds of thousands of couples who have attended Imago workshops since Getting the Love You Want hit bookstands, as well as new and curious ones seeking a practical route back to intimacy and passionate friendship. The workbook contains a unique twelve-week course (The New Couples’ Study Guide) designed to help work through the exercises published in Part III of Getting the Love You Want.

For those of us struggling to maintain our most precious relationships, the Getting the Love You Want Workbook helps us grow aware of our individual, unconscious agenda while steering us towards a more harmonious link with our loved ones that will satisfy our deepest needs.

Genres: Relationships, Self Help, Psychology, Nonfiction, Marriage, Personal Growth

272 pages, Paperback

First published December 30, 2003

About the author

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., is the author of Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, a New York Times bestseller that has sold more than two million copies. He has more than thirty years’ experience as an educator and therapist. He specializes in working with couples in private practice, teaching marital therapy to therapists, and conducting couples workshops across the country. Dr. Hendrix is the founder/director of the Imago Institute for Relationship Therapy. He lives in New Jersey and New Mexico.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/harvil...

Reviews

[Lincoln]

Interesting book on why people are attracted to people they are not compatible with. Pretty much explains my life :). Actually worth reading for anyone, if you can implement the assignments from the book and practice the dialogue, I can't see how this wouldn't improve anyone's marriage. He is a proponent of committment and sticking it out, not a believer in divorce which I appreciate.

[Jordan]

Yeah yeah, I know what you're all thinking. But this started out as a textbook for my junior college general education Marriage and Family class. I really loved that class and the professor was really great as well. So, I've decided to read this book in its entirety because...why not? It's based on psychological theories and goes on from there. I figure I can only learn more about human relationships and hopefully learn from my mistakes.

[Chantal Rodier]

A very good explanation on couple's dynamics, how we choose partners and the power relationship that establishes itself in relationships. Imago is the name given to the methodology.
He presents a pragmatic approach to resolve communication challenges in a couple or any close relationship.

It was very helpful in my couple.

[Azeemah]

It is a book that every couple should read! As a Psychologist, I perceive this book as a relationship therapy: inviting the reader, and the two people in the relationship to engage in a process that will help them to resolve conflicts and become more conscious.

[Henry Aldaz]

Loved it

[Jamie Batts]

Really good. If you follow attachment theory....it basically explains that.

[Mohammed Habiballah]

It's very fascinating that childhood experiences may craft my expectations about my partner. I think this is a book for everyone who seeks better relationship experience.

[Jessica Harvey]

This book is a self help workbook for couples who want to make a marriage work. The book shares commonsense tips to help individuals to heal their inner child. You can read through quickly for some great ideas.You get out of it what you put into it. If you take some time each day with it, you do some real relationship work.

[Paula]

The book was very good. There are also Imago workshops for married couples that are even more effective and hands-on. Bryce and I went to one and our experience was very positive. The book would provide support for the workshop but may not be as valuable as a stand alone aid.

[Jenn Edwards]

Fun workbook to do with your husband :)

[Wade Cohen]

great book to read for anyone who has ever wanted help in a relationship.

[Raphael]

it is influencing me