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While

most of us have moments of loving freely and openly, it is often hard to

sustain this where it matters most—in our intimate relationships. Why if love

is so great and powerful are human relationships so challenging and difficult?

If love is the source of happiness and joy, why is it so hard to open to it

fully and let it govern our lives? In this book, John Welwood addresses these

questions and shows us how to overcome the most fundamental obstacle that keeps

us from experiencing love's full flowering in our lives.

*Perfect

Love, Imperfect Relationships

*

begins by showing how all our relational problems arise out of a universal,

core wounding around love that affects not only our personal relationships but

the quality of life in our world as a whole. This wounding shows up as a

pervasive

*mood

of unlove

*—a

deep sense that we are not intrinsically lovable just as we are. And this shuts

down our capacity to trust, so that even though we may hunger for love, we have

difficulty opening to it and letting it circulate freely through us.

This

book takes the reader on a powerful journey of healing and transformation that

involves learning to embrace our humanness and appreciate the imperfections of

our relationships as trail-markers along the path to great love. It sets forth

a process for releasing deep-seated grievances we hold against others for not

loving us better and against ourselves for not being better loved. And it shows

how our longing to be loved can magnetize the great love that will free us from

looking to others to find ourselves.

Written

with penetrating realism and a fresh, lyrical style that honors the subtlety

and richness of our relationship to love itself, this revolutionary book offers

profound and practical guidance for healing our lives as well as our embattled

world.