Best Books on Relationships - How to Choose?

If your ex has just broken up with you, you may be in the marketplace for books on relationships. But how do you choose the best books on relationships among the many offerings out there? Here’s how to choose. And the answer may surprise you.

But I've Studied This For So Long!

First, don’t be fooled by all those fancy letters after an author’s name. There are many people out there who find school to be a convenient escape from real life. Instead of engaging and socializing with people, they spend their time in the classroom and library away from the real world. As a result, they end up with a lot of letters after their names when they hit age 35 and use their degrees to indicate that they have “expert knowledge” of a situation. But does their expertise work in the real world?

Instead, look for books on relationships by authors who have been in the trenches. They’ve either put a bad relationship back together themselves or they’ve helped numerous buddies do the same. These aren’t therapy patients that come in for the “fifty-minute hour” either. These relationships are those of people the author cares deeply about.

"Take This Time to Find Yourself!"

Secondly, find books that don’t boil down to the proverbial “put the relationship aside for 30 days and work on yourself during that period” theory. This is in almost all of those “save your relationship” or “get your ex back” reports. Many of the ebooks on the internet turn that concept into 50-page fluff pieces. They don’t deserve your attention – or your hard-earned (especially these days) money.

Instead, look for the book that will give you new information that your good friends can’t give you.

For instance, will the book tell you what women/men crave most? Will it give you a step-by-step guide for how to give them that to them? Will the book show you how to recover from an affair? Will it give you specific techniques to get relief from your pain?


How Credible is the Information and the Writer?

Finally, look at who’s recommending the book. Are the testimonials a little too generic or were they written by the author’s brother and second cousin?

Find books on relationships that come recommended by a wide variety of people, in real and various situations, from all walks of life. If it looks like both an aristratic guy from England and a newly engaged woman from Kansas have used the book, chances are it will work for you, too.


Haven't Been There, Haven't Done That

There are many books on relationships out there. Unfortunately, a lot of them are drivel because they weren’t written by someone in the trenches or by someone who's been where you are and can give you some insight on the very things you’re looking for help with. As a result, they have generic advice that could be best summed up in a paragraph or two. Then, to top it off, what recommendations the book can give are generic in nature because the book really has nothing going for it. It has no substance.

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Finding the best books on relationships can take a little work. Then again, everything about relationships takes work. As my grandma used to tell me, "Anything worth doing is worth doing well."

Shouldn’t you invest the time and money in the very best book out there on them?

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