Getting the Love You Want

A Guide for Couples: 20th Anniversary Edition

By: Harville Hendrix Ph.D.

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's summary

In Getting the Love You Want, Dr. Harville Hendrix presents the relationship skills that have already helped hundreds of thousands of couples to replace confrontation and criticism with a healing process of mutual growth and support.

This extraordinarily practical guide describes the revolutionary technique of Imago Relationship Therapy, which combines a number of disciplines - including the behavioral sciences, depth psychology, cognitive therapy, and Gestalt therapy, among others - to create a program to resolve conflict and renew communication and passion.

In a new chapter and afterword, we learn the key ways in which Imago Therapy - now practiced by more than two thousand therapists worldwide - can be used to help couples eliminate all negativity from their daily interactions.

This fundamental change has proven invaluable in couples' therapy, and the importance of eliminating negativity has been integrated throughout the text, allowing listeners of the 2008 edition to benefit from Dr. Hendrix's ongoing discoveries during his last two decades of work.

©1988, 2008 Harville Hendrix (P)2008 Macmillan Audio

Critic reviews

"I know of no better guide for couples who genuinely desire a maturing relationship." (M. Scott Peck, author of The Road Less Traveled)

Highly recommend, especially in tandem with an imago therapist

SEEK COUNSEL EARLY! So many of the issues that developed and were magnified over the course of my marriage up to this point could have been avoided or handled with love and understanding had I possessed a fraction of the self awareness and empathetic knowledge that I gained from this text. This is an extremely difficult process to accomplish if you are separated even with a therapist involved due to ease of avoidance of exercises.
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder.
Peace & Love

One Stop Resource for improving your relationship

I found this book useful, inspiring, and immediately implementable. It helped me understand myself, my wife, and what I needed to do to improve my marriage. I would make this required reading by law for anyone married on planning to get married. I would recommend this book to anyone.

Great listen on Audible

I enjoyed the book. it gave great examples on how to get the love you want. stuff I can try now.

Useful

I found it sometimes not so interesting to listen but very useful if you practice the exercises.

relationship Bible

This book has helped me understand so much about relationships. I have went through this book so many times, every time I pick up something new.

absolutely incredible

a must listen!!!! cannot believe how much insight this gave me for my marriage and for myself personally

Great and worth it!

I learned a lot and I was able to see things about myself I had no idea I had.
Really makes you think and analyze your see the root of the marriage problems.
somethings I kinda not completely have a go for but most of it works for me .

love this for personal and couple growth!

loved this book not only for couple growth and transformation, but for personal growth
I have 2 friends who are NOT in a relationship now and benefiting greatly! you have to do the work!

Very good insight into relationships

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

Very good insight into relationships but a little too dramatic. There are many tricks that will help any relationship to get better however it gets to a point where it is way to deep, too dramatic and almost painful to hear.

Good marriage renewal book

very systematic way of looking at marriage renewal with the help of therapy. some exercises appear to be difficult , especially if other partner is unwilling, not motivatef