Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship

Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship

Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship

Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship

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Overview

"Invaluable for so many partners looking to reconnect and grow closer together."
—Gwyneth Paltrow, founder and CEO of goop

"Stan Tatkin can be entirely followed into the towering infernos of our most painful relationship challenges."
—Alanis Morissette, artist, activist, and wholeness advocate

The complete “insider’s guide” to understanding your partner’s brain, sparking lasting connection, and enjoying a romantic relationship built on love and trust—now with more than 170,000 copies sold.

“What the heck is my partner thinking?” “Why do they always react like this?” “How can we get back that connection we had in the beginning?” If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions, you aren’t alone, and it doesn’t mean that your relationship is doomed. Every person is wired for love differently—with different habits, needs, and reactions to conflict. The good news is that most people’s minds work in predictable ways and respond well to security, attachment, and routines, making it possible to neurologically prime the brain for greater love and connection and fewer conflicts. This go-to guide will show you how.

 

Drawn from neuroscience, attachment theory, and emotion regulation, this highly anticipated second edition of Wired for Love presents cutting-edge research on how and why love lasts, and offers ten guiding principles that can improve any relationship. This fully revised and updated edition also includes new guidance on how to manage disagreements, as well as new exercises to help you create a sense of safety and security, establish healthy conflict ground rules, and deal with the threat of the third—any outside source which threatens the harmony in your relationship, including in-laws, alcohol, children, and affairs.

You’ll find proven-effective strategies to help you strengthen your relationship by:

  • Creating and maintaining a safe “couple bubble”
  • Using morning and evening routines to stay connected
  • Learning how to see your partner’s point of view
  • Meeting each other halfway in a fight
  • Becoming the expert on what makes your partner feel loved
 

By using simple gestures and words, you’ll learn to put out emotional fires and help your partner feel appreciated and loved. You’ll also discover how to move past a “warring brain” mentality and toward a more cooperative “loving brain.” Most importantly, you’ll gain a better understanding of the complex dynamics at work behind love and trust in intimate relationships.

While there’s no doubt that love is an inexact science, if you understand how you and your partner are wired differently, you can overcome your differences, and create a lasting intimate connection.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781648482960
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Publication date: 06/01/2024
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 216
Sales rank: 217,269
Product dimensions: 8.90(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, is a clinician, teacher, and developer of the Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT). He has a clinical practice in Calabasas, CA; where he has specialized for the last twenty years in working with couples and individuals who wish to be in relationships. He and his wife, Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin, developed the PACT Institute for the purpose of training other psychotherapists to use this method in their clinical work.


Harville Hendrix, PhD, is co-creator of Imago relationship therapy, and is known internationally for his work with couples. Hendrix is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Foreword ix

Introduction: Wired for Love 1

Chapter 1 The Couple Bubble: How You Can Keep Each Other Safe and Secure 7

Chapter 2 The Warring/Loving Brain: How You Can Keep the Love Alive 23

Chapter 3 Know Your Partner: How Does He or She Really Work? 45

Chapter 4 Becoming Experts on One Another: How to Please and Soothe Your Partner 71

Chapter 5 Launchings and Landings: How to Use Morning and Bedtime Rituals 89

Chapter 6 The Go-To People: How to Remain Available to One Another 103

Chapter 7 Protecting the Couple Bubble: How to Include Outsiders 119

Chapter 8 Fighting Well: How to Win by Letting Your Partner Win, Too 139

Chapter 9 Love Is Up Close: How to Rekindle Love Through Eye Contact 157

Chapter 10 Live a Happier, Healthier Life: How Your Partnership CanHealYou 169

Postscript 177

References 179

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