Below I’ll give you my selections for the best Relationship books by a few categories. I will cover these and other great books more in depth later.
- 1. The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts (2015)
- 2. The Relationship Cure: A 5 Step Guide to Strengthening Your Marriage, Family, and Friendships (2002)
- 3. How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving (2002)
- 4. 201 Relationship Questions: The Couple’s Guide to Building Trust and Emotional Intimacy (2015)
- 5. Relationships: A Mess Worth Making (2006)
- 6. Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connection (2018)
- 7. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert (2015)
- 8. The Seven Secrets to Healthy, Happy Relationships (2018)
- 9. The Secret Language of Relationships: Your Complete Personology Guide to Any Relationship with Anyone (2013)
- 10. No More Fighting: The Relationship Book for Couples: 20 Minutes a Week to a Stronger Relationship (2018)
- 11. The Verbally Abusive Relationship, Expanded Third Edition: How to recognize it and how to respond (2010)
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1. The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts (2015)
Falling in love is easy. Staying in love—that’s the challenge. How can you keep your relationship fresh and growing amid the demands, conflicts, and just plain boredom of everyday life?In the #1 New York Times bestseller The 5 Love Languages, you’ll discover the secret that has transformed millions of relationships worldwide. Whether your relationship is flourishing or failing, Dr. Gary Chapman’s proven approach to showing and receiving love will help you experience deeper and richer levels of intimacy with your partner—starting today.The 5 Love Languages is…
2. The Relationship Cure: A 5 Step Guide to Strengthening Your Marriage, Family, and Friendships (2002)
Gottman provides the tools you need to make your relationships thrive. In The Relationship Cure, Dr. Gottman:- Reveals the key elements of healthy relationships, emphasizing the importance of what he calls “emotional connection”- Introduces the powerful new concept of the emotional “bid,” the fundamental unit of emotional connection- Provides remarkably empowering tools for improving the way you bid for emotional connection and how you respond to others’ bids- And more! Packed with fascinating questionnaires and…
3. How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving (2002)
“Most people think of love as a feeling,” says David Richo, “but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present.” In this book, Richo offers a fresh perspective on love and relationships—one that focuses not on finding an ideal mate, but on becoming a more loving and realistic person. Drawing on the Buddhist concept of mindfulness, How to Be an Adult in Relationships explores five hallmarks of mindful loving and how they play a key role in our relationships throughout life: 1. Attention to the present moment; observing, listening,…
4. 201 Relationship Questions: The Couple’s Guide to Building Trust and Emotional Intimacy (2015)
Question Your Way to Lasting Love and IntimacyWouldn’t it be great to have a relationship counselor on call to help you and your love partner have the most joyful, loving relationship possible? What if you had someone who knew to draw out your deepest desires and help you calmly navigate areas of pain or conflict? Having a coach is wonderful, but if you know the right questions to ask one another, you can start right now building the relationship you both desire. Mutual questioning is a powerful technique to draw out deeper emotions and desires and address potential areas of conflict before they disrupt your…
5. Relationships: A Mess Worth Making (2006)
Hope for messy, conflict-ridden relationships. Your best friend is suddenly cool and distant. Your spouse can t stop complaining about your bad habits. Your son refuses to talk to you. What are you supposed to do? Plans A, B, and C might be to shut down, lash out, or get out. But consider Plan D: Recognize that God has the last word on those messy, conflict-ridden relationships. He can use them to make you into someone who can give and receive love with God and others. Impossible? Idealistic? Not really. In Relationships: A Mess Worth Making, Tim Lane and Paul Tripp show you…
6. Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connection (2018)
It’s easy to fall in love. The challenging part is keeping that spark alive while you and your partner deal with “the real world.” Your relationship can often seem less urgent than the day-to-day emergencies that you deal with — your job, finances, children, and that to-do list full of chores. They all demand your immediate attention. So how do you find the time to nurture your love and intimacy? What often . Maybe you’ve neglected some of the positive habits you adopted when you were dating to win over your love partner. Or perhaps all of your conversations seem to end in arguments? Or worse, you might occasionally wonder if your…
7. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert (2015)
John Gottman’s unprecedented study of couples over a period of years has allowed him to observe the habits that can make—and break—a marriage. Here is the culmination of that work: the seven principles that guide couples on a path toward a harmonious and long-lasting relationship. Straightforward yet profound, these principles teach partners new approaches for resolving conflicts, creating new common ground, and achieving greater levels of intimacy. Gottman offers strategies and resources to help couples collaborate more effectively to…
8. The Seven Secrets to Healthy, Happy Relationships (2018)
As humans, most of us yearn for fulfilling relationships. They provide unlimited ways for us to learn, grow, thrive, and have fun!Yet, as we know, relationships aren’t always a “bed of roses”–especially romantic ones. They don’t make themselves, nor do they continue happily on autopilot once they begin.In this one-of-a-kind book, bestselling authors don Miguel Ruiz, Jr. and HeatherAsh Amara share their seven secrets to healthy, happy relationships: Understanding and enacting these principles can help you at any stage in your intimate partnering, whether you’ve been with someone for many years or are currently…
9. The Secret Language of Relationships: Your Complete Personology Guide to Any Relationship with Anyone (2013)
The bestselling companion book to the groundbreaking The Secret Language of Birthdays, The Secret Language of Relationships offers a fascinating look into why we are drawn to certain people. Goldschneider divides the year into 48 “weeks,” showing the personality traits for each period. With an amazing 1,176 combinations of personalities, you can better understand any relationship in your life.Beautifully illustrated and designed, the Secret Language series is sure to delight a new generation of astrology enthusiasts and all people who are interested in better understanding…
10. No More Fighting: The Relationship Book for Couples: 20 Minutes a Week to a Stronger Relationship (2018)
No More Fighting offers fast strategies to stop fights now and build a stronger relationship long-term.All couples fight―but a little guidance goes a long way to tackling the issues that trigger fights in the first place. No More Fighting offers couples fast and effective strategies to overcome common relationship problems and build lasting love together.In just 20 minutes per week, couples will learn how to effectively speak and listen to each other as they confront critical relationship issues. From reconciling different values to navigating intimacy issues and everything in between, No…
11. The Verbally Abusive Relationship, Expanded Third Edition: How to recognize it and how to respond (2010)
In this fully expanded and updated third edition of the bestselling classic, you learn why verbal abuse is more widespread than ever, and how you can deal with it. You’ll get more of the answers you need to recognize abuse when it happens, respond to abusers safely and appropriately, and most important, lead a happier, healthier life. In two all-new chapters, Evans reveals the Outside Stresses driving the rise in verbal abuse – and shows you how you can mitigate the devastating effects on your relationships. She also outlines the Levels of Abuse that characterize this kind of behavior – from subtle,…
Best Relationship Books You Should Read
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The relationship between democracy and education
Author(s): Ayşe Ottekin Demirbolat
ID: 1330908, Publisher: Bentham eBooks, Year: [2012], Size: 1 Mb, Format: pdf
Friendship Versus Business in Marketing Relationships
Author(s): Kent Grayson
ID: 1352641, Publisher: Journal of Marketing, Year: October 2007, Size: 178 Kb, Format: pdf
Energy Healing for Relationships: Meditations, Mudras, and Chakra Practices for Partners, Families, and Friends
Author(s): Keith Sherwood, Sabine Wittmann
ID: 2400490, Publisher: Llewellyn Publications, Year: 8 Aug 2019, Size: 5 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not definite. Some books are truly best-sellers according to Chicago Tribune, others are drafted by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.