Reading collection
Relationship Repair
Books for attachment, conflict, marriage, intimacy, and healthier love.
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Collection index
A shelf with an argument.
Every collection gathers books around a practical life problem. Open the title that feels closest, then let the shelf widen the frame.
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01
Emily Nagoski · 2015
Come as You Are
Pleasure begins where shame loses authority and the body is allowed to tell the truth.
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John M. Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman · 2019
Eight Dates
Love stays alive when two people keep making room to be surprised by each other.
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Eric Berne · 1964
Games People Play
The game loses power the moment you stop accepting the role it wrote for you.
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John Gray · 1992
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
Love improves when curiosity arrives before judgment.
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bell hooks · 1999
All About Love
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Sue Johnson · 2022
The Hold Me Tight Workbook
Love is not the icing on the cake of life. It is a basic primary need, like oxygen or water.
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Lundy Bancroft · 2002
Why Does He Do That?
The pattern matters more than the apology. Safety begins when confusion stops protecting control.
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Natasha Lunn · 2021
Conversations on Love
Love deepens when people keep asking questions that make the hidden life speakable.
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David Richo · 2002
How to Be an Adult in Relationships
Mature love is less about control and more about the quality of presence you bring.
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Harriet Lerner · 1985
The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
Anger becomes useful when it teaches you where the self has disappeared.
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Brené Brown · 2012
The Power of Vulnerability
Courage is the willingness to be seen before the outcome is guaranteed.
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John M. Gottman, Nan Silver · 1999
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
Happy marriages are based on a deep friendship.
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Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler · 2002
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
Truth travels farther when safety is kept in the conversation.
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Jefferson Fisher · 2025
The Next Conversation
The most important conversation you'll ever have is the next one.
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Robert M. Drake · 2025
Detoxify
You are allowed to outgrow the version of you that was built out of survival instead of love.
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Miguel Ruiz · 1999
The Mastery of Love
Love is not a bargain for safety; it is a clean way of being.
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Lysa TerKeurst · 2020
Forgiving What You Can't Forget
Forgiveness can release the future without rewriting the past.
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Harville Hendrix · 1988
Getting the Love You Want
Repair begins when being right becomes less urgent than being accurately heard.
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The Arbinger Institute · 2000
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
The box opens when the other person becomes fully human again.
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Marshall B. Rosenberg · 2003
Nonviolent Communication
Behind every judgment is a clumsy expression of an unmet need.
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The Arbinger Institute · 2006
The Anatomy of Peace
Peace begins when the other person becomes human again inside your story.
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