Real Love: The Truth About Finding Unconditional Love & Fulfilling Relationships by Greg Baer Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Real Love: The Truth About Finding Unconditional Love & Fulfilling Relationships
Book Review: The best practical guide to living a happier life!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is the best book I have ever read about love, life and the pursuit of happiness.
Greg Baer talks about how we can find real, unconditional love, eliminate anger from our relationships and become more loving ourselves. Most of us did not experience unconditional love when we grew up. When we were quiet and obedient, the adults around us were kind and smiled at us. But when we were messy and noisy, they responded with sharp, angry voices. In order to protect ourselves from our parents' anger or disapproval, we developed protective behaviors like withdrawing, lying, attacking, clinging or acting like a victim. We carry those behaviors into adulthood, where they serve us reasonably well, but generally don't make us happy. We also rely on things like money, shopping, flattery, alcohol, etc. to keep us "happy". You could call those things imitation love, because they make us happy in the short term, but never in the long term.
When we stop blaming others for our own unhappiness we have taken the first step towards a happier life. Greg Baer lays out a very practical approach to happiness, which I have found missing in many other books. Instead of "just be happy" or "stop being angry" (if it was only that easy), he details a few simple steps to take. They may not be easy, but they're simple and very doable!
3 years ago my life was a mess - I was constantly yelling at my two boys, and my husband and I were barely communicating with each other. By reading Greg Baer's book with a group of people in a book club format we learned the steps and supported each other on our path. Today our group is still going strong and meets every Tuesday evening. My life is much different today; I am much happier and have regained my sense of hope for the future.
Book Review: The Holy Grail!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
What can I say? I've read every book, taken every class and listened to every so called "Wiseman/Wisewoman." Dr. Greg Baer walks the walk! Real Love is the key to true and lasting happiness!
Love,
Rev. Sandra Lee Serrano
Peacemaker
Book Review: If You Don't Think You Need This Book---You Do!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I had a major crisis in my life recently-A sort of Emotional Drowning, which caused me to desperately look for ANY sort of rescue. If you get this book, you can see me in the last chapter, the spouse with no hope he could see, except to leave his wife who he stilled loved. So here I was, getting more and more weary of nothing working--shrinks, marriage counselors, and even some ministers----wondering how did things get this bad, and ready to just let the drowning waves come over me, when I remembered something. A few years back--back when my life was super--I loved my wife, she loved me, we both loved our kidsa---a close friend, actually a fundamental Christian, of which I am the latter not the former, had mentioned just in passing that I really should not just "love" my wife but should have "unconditional love" for her--"Yeah, whatever, so what" was my response-my wife and I loved each other a lot, so what's the point if we call our love some title.
So, before I slipped below the waves, I gave it one last shot---I Googled "Unconditional Love" and "book", with no real optimism that I would find anything to help me. This book popped up-Simple: I bought it---It saved my life!!
The reason that I gave you my history is to show you that I had a BIG TIME NEED for the stuff in this book when I looked for it---That NEED was the ONLY reason I even looked for a book like this, much less read it. Had I read it about 5 years ago, when things "appeared" to be going just fine in my life, my reaction to the book would have been radically different. My review would have looked like this:
3 Stars
"This book is a very interesting read--filled with good concepts to follow, that, however, really don't apply to me, but might apply to you, because my life is great right now and because the small increase in love I might get above what I give and get right now, wouldn't be worth the effort necessary to do the stuff in this book. So I "could" recommend reading this book for how Dr Baer's interesting theories help other people--people who I really have sympathy for, but nothing in common with---they're not like me and my wife. We love each other a lot, and don't have any problems like those people in the book. Therefore, although I could recommend this book for its interesting theories, I don't really see any reason to read this book unless you have allowed your life to go down hill so far that you're like those people in the book".
The title of my review: "If You Don't Think You Need This Book---You Do!!!". Looking back did I "need" a few years ago to put into practise the stuff in this book---You betcha. It took desperately trying to "do" the stuff in this book while I was drowning to realize that had "the light gone on" back when things "apparently" were just fine, my situation definitely would not have gotten this bad. But, sometimes I still seem to have to rationalize the deterioration of my marriage. I think--"Not my fault--I didn't know anything was wrong back then and I didn't even have a chance to decide to do something or not". Speaking of having chances, if you decide to get this book, I'd be curious which of my reviews you would write. Sorry, no punch line yet--but work is in progress, the waves have subsided and I'm getting closer to shore every day.
Book Review: TOTALLY AWESOME!!
Summary: 5 Stars
THIS BOOK AND THIS BODY OF WORK IS THE SIMPLEST, MOST PROFOUND THING ON THE PLANET RIGHT NOW. IF EVERYONE PRACTICED THESE PRINCIPLES DILIGENTLY, 24/7, WE WOULDN'T HAVE ANY "PROBLEMS" AT ALL ON THE PLANET. THE END.Book Review: Dr. Baer is good. Really good!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is essentially for learning about unconditional love, and why no one should settle for less. I really enjoyed it!