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.
- The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts (2015)
- The Relationship Cure: A 5 Step Guide to Strengthening Your Marriage, Family, and Friendships (2002)
- How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving (2002)
- 201 Relationship Questions: The Couple’s Guide to Building Trust and Emotional Intimacy (2015)
- Relationships: A Mess Worth Making (2006)
- Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connection (2018)
- The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert (2015)
- The Seven Secrets to Healthy, Happy Relationships (2018)
- The Secret Language of Relationships: Your Complete Personology Guide to Any Relationship with Anyone (2013)
- No More Fighting: The Relationship Book for Couples: 20 Minutes a Week to a Stronger Relationship (2018)
- The Verbally Abusive Relationship, Expanded Third Edition: How to recognize it and how to respond (2010)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.