Do You Hate the One You Love?: Strategies for Healing and Saving Your Relationship
Many of us experience heartbreak, abuse, and a variety of “unmentionable” challenges in trying to make our relationships successful. For many couples, these challenges are daunting, especially when your partner becomes someone you despise as much as you adore. If that happens, what do you do, and how do you take good care of yourself? That’s what Do You Hate the One You Love? is all about, and though it’s written primarily for women, men should read it too, first to understand their partner better and then to learn a few lessons for themselves.
As a professional therapist specializing in couple’s therapy, Joan E. Childs has learned that the core problems and causes behind relationship strife can be traced back to childhood. This book is an adventure in intimacy, exploring universal issues that crop up in any relationship, and it describes rituals and principles that can heal a contaminated space. As Marcel Proust famously said, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” That’s exactly what is provided here!
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Joan E. Childs, LCSW has been a psychotherapist since 1978. She is a clinical social worker, specializing in couple’s therapy, codependency, inner child work, original pain work, and second-stage recovery. Joan was the first affiliate of the John Bradshaw Center in the United States. She is a certified master practitioner for neuro-linguistic programming, EMDR master practitioner, grief counselor, hypnotherapist, PAIRS leader, life coach, and inspirational speaker.
Joan is the author of The Myth of the Maiden: On Being a Woman and Why Did She Jump? My Daughter’s Battle with Bipolar Disorder, which is presently in preproduction for a film. Joan has authored hundreds of blogs at www.joanechilds.com and magazines, such as The Huffington Post. She has appeared on national radio and television programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show.
