 See larger picture | Be Your Own Dating Service: A Step-By-Step Guide to Finding and Maintaining Healthy Relationships
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Nina Atwood
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- Paperback: 304 pages
; Dimensions (in inches):
0.90 x
8.40 x
5.60
- Publisher: Holt Paperbacks;
(January 15, 1996)
- ISBN: 0805040978
- Average Customer Review:
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19
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- Amazon.com Sales Rank (Book):
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Product Description
Where are all the good people to date? Why do I always end up with the wrong person? Why is love so hard to find?
This upbeat and on-target book answers these questions and many more, providing today's singles with a blueprint for creating rewarding dating experiences.
Featured Customer Reviews
Good Solid Advice!,
June 12, 2008
Nina Atwood covers many of the important issues of dating from selecting others to date, to promoting healthy relationships. Topics include focusing on who to date, why you date, making healthy choices, the needs of a dating relationship once you define your needs and improving your communication skills.
Well written with useful and insightful information, this book is easy to read and understand.
The Re-Discovery of Common Sense: A Guide to: The Lost Art of Critical Thinking
Still so relevant 10 years later ,
December 30, 2006
Its amazing how even as years go by, good advice stands true. For a book written in 1996, I was impressed with the sound strategies and the clear eyed self analysis exercises that force you to look within. I would be interested to find out how the author sees online dating as its become so pervasive over the past decade. But this book is well worth the money if you're serious about recharting your path in the dating/relationship world.
Good Book,
November 09, 2003
As a man who is in his mid-thirties I am ready to be in a commited relationship. I feel like a lot of the books that are out there are for how to pick up women in thirty seconds and they are somewhat funny but don't help and not what I am after. If you want to read that kind of book look elsewhere. This book provided good advice as far as steps to take to head in the right direction. I bought this with the book "Stumbling Naked in the Dark" upon suggestion of a friend that I work with and they worked well together for me.
Be True To Yourself,
October 11, 2002
I found this book very interesting, helpful, and an excellent educational tool. I would recommend this book to anyone who is in a dating relationship and also for pregnant teens and others who are entering into the social/dating world following a break-up.
The dialogue is honest, concise, in-depth, and written well. The reader is treated like an intelligent person who can think and make sound judgments when in a dating or other relationship.
I especially liked Part II, The Relatiohsip and the chapters dealing with Attachment, Sex, Love, and Communication. These chapters address and discuss what is needed to talk about before entering into a committed exclusive relationship. I read it last year and reviewed several chapters again in 2002 to keep myself on track.
Regarding any advice on dating and interpersonal relationships,
the information should be assimilated and used prudently. Human behavior is, for the most part, unpredictable and to adhere to a set dating plan or to categorize a person as a North/South/East/Westbound Train is unrealistic. But the book defines the user, non-committed, and unavailable people and lists warining signs of the Westbound (not available for a committment but has a desire to be with you).Dating goals should be based on individual preferences, lifestyle, and needs.
The best,
January 11, 2002
The best book about dating relationships I have found... and it's about much more than just getting dates. As a male psychiatrist at a major university student health service where inability to make good choices in finding a healthy relationship is a common presenting complaint I recommend this book when I feel the patient could benefit from some study concerning the matter. Ordinarily I'm not really a fan of what I consider pop psychology but this book is very insightful and gives a good framework for understanding a process that we are taught very little about but somehow we are supposed to know. The reality for most us is learning in a trial and error fashion, often blindly, without much understanding about why things are going so badly and accumulating baggage along the way. There should be a course on this in high school if education is about preparing people for life, and if so, this book would be on my required reading list.
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