Broken Promises, Mended Hearts : Maintaining Trust in Love Relationships

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Summary: A Practical Guide for Troubled Couples
Review: As a psychologist who works with couples, I was very happy to find Dr. Block's book. He provides an excellent understanding about the way childhood and family issues can interfere with a person's ability to maintain trusting adult relationships. And even more importantly, he gives concrete, useable ideas for repairing, improving and maintaining trust in love relationships. I will gladly recommend this book to my patients and I think it is particularly useful for those couples who are reluctant to see a therapist for help.

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Summary: A Rare Find!
Review: As a therapist working with couples for the past thirty years, I found this book to be one of the most helpful and inspiring. Trust...the loss of it and the repairing process, as Dr. Block poignantly shows us, is one of the most crucial issues. Dr. Block's clarity and wisdom as a clinician and as an author is to be commended.

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Summary: A Rare Find!
Review: As a therapist working with couples for the past thirty years, I found this book to be one of the most helpful and inspiring. Trust...the loss of it and the repairing process, as Dr. Block poignantly shows us, is one of the most crucial issues. Dr. Block's clarity and wisdom as a clinician and as an author is to be commended.

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Summary: BRILLIANT WORK!
Review: BROKEN PROMISES, MENDED HEARTS, provides answers to many questions concerning trust issues in love relationships. Dr. Block remains consistent in his ability to write with the reader in mind, and his compassionate approach to writing makes this book particularly helpful with such a delicate subject as dealing with one's "heart". He covers many topics such as: everyday events that break down trust, playing jealousy games, to the struggle with vulnerability. Through the use of questionnaires, Dr. Block encourages the reader to take an active approach to learning about their own relationship struggles. He ultimately helps the reader understand the mechanics behind their issues with a sensitive yet direct technique. GRAND APPLAUSE FOR DR. BLOCK!

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Summary: A MUST-READ!
Review: Once again, Joel Block offers a highly sensitive rendition on the nuances of relationships, opening the reader to new perspectives and ways to effect change with those they love. Dr. Block is a master of creating movement in one's imagination to help couples and individuals increase, fortify, or repair their trust in one another. I applaud his efforts!!

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Summary: maintaining trust in love relationships
Review: This book has become a tool to use with couples who are in pain around issues of betrayal and trust. This is the first book that I have come across that approaches the subject with such clarity. Thank you Dr. Block.

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Summary: The most helpful book I've read
Review: This book helped me and my young wife go through a troubled period. Dr. Block's emphasis on maintaining and rejuvinating trust in the couple showed us the way to get along and reinvigorated our relationship. This book is a wonderful tool in any relationship, whether in trouble or not.

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Summary: The most helpful book I've read
Review: This book helped me and my young wife go through a troubled period. Dr. Block's emphasis on maintaining and rejuvinating trust in the couple showed us the way to get along and reinvigorated our relationship. This book is a wonderful tool in any relationship, whether in trouble or not.

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Summary: A NECESSARY LOOK INTO CREATING A TRUSTING RELATIONSHIP
Review: Trust can be the one factor that can bind or erode a couple's relationship. Dr. Block's excellent book confronts this issue by recognizing triggers that interfere and destroy that trust. Through the recognition of one's past and the learning to separate it from the present,as well as developing a more forthright style of communication, Dr. Block's book leads a couple in a most useful and positive direction that can only correct, improve, and enhance their chances for a successful relationship. An important book that is extremely instructive and useful for all couples to read. It is very highly recommended.

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Summary: User friendly and extremely helpful
Review: Trust is essential to love relationships and I thought Dr. Block looked at it from every angle while avoiding the simplistic comments found in so many self-help books. In contrast to a lot of the self-help genre, his case examples were very realistic and his suggestions were very wise and well thought out. It is apparent that he took the subject seriously and he has the ability to take complicated issues and make them quite understandable. What's more, he looked at aspects of trust that most of us miss--the everyday minor things that add up and crush a relationship over time. I especially appreciated chapter 5 in the book--issues between couples where trust takes center stage--he went into detail in a sophisticated yet clearly written manner about a difficult topic. Lastly,I thought his suggestions for repairing trust were sensitive and very helpful.