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"All you need is love" and "Marriage is a 50-50 proposition" are ideas many of us have absorbed. The advice we've gotten from friends, family, and clergy and the stories in movies, music, and fiction feed these notions. (See the blockbuster book and movie Love Story for Myth 7: Love Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry.) Ideas about love banishing loneliness or making life perfect are also, undeniably, appealing. Renowned, and married, therapists Linda and Charlie Bloom aren't here to rain on parades or lower expectations. As they deconstruct misconceptions - using true couple stories - they replace them with the often-uplifting truth. Freed from the notions that don't apply to most actual human beings, readers can use the realistic, practical, and truly loving practices the Blooms offer.
About the Author
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Linda Bloom LCSW and Charlie Bloom MSW are considered experts in the field of relationships. They have been married since 1972. They have both been trained as seminar leaders, therapists and relationships counselors and have been working with individuals, couples, and groups since 1975.
They have been featured presenters at numerous conferences, universities, and institutions of learning throughout the country and overseas as well. They are regular faculty members at the Esalen Institute, the Kripalu Center, the California Institute for Integral Studies, and many other learning facilities.
They have appeared on over two hundred radio and TV programs and are co-authors of their latest book, "Happily Ever After...and 39 Other Myths about Love: Breaking Through to the Relationship of Your Dreams" and their bestselling book, "101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married: Simple Lessons to Make Love Last", and "Secrets of Great Marriages: Real Truth from Real Couples about Lasting Love". They live in Santa Cruz, California, near their two children and three grandchildren.
Their website is www.bloomwork.com.
