Who Deserves Your Love is an easy to read guide and toolkit for beginning to understand and manage relationships. This book can be valuable to anyone, but is especially wonderful for anyone struggling with a parent and child relationship, romantic relationship or friendship. Split into three sections: How to Work on Your Relationships, How to Make Decisions About Relationships and How to Use Boundaries to Have Better Relationships, author KC Davis gives meaningful advice on how to approach, understand and solve relationship issues. I really appreciated that right from the introduction, the author tells you what sections to read if you are in crisis or need information now. The writing throughout is also direct, down to earth and extremely easy to read, making what could be a very heavy topic easy to digest and even fun! I also got a lot of use out of the tools that are provided, the questions to ask yourself and the decision tree can be used everyday to help navigate any kind of relationship.
I personally gained a lot of valuable information from reading Who Deserves Your Love. Right from the introduction, I gained insight into myself and why I react the way I do in relationships due to psychological safety needs. I appreciated the breakdown of the three types of relationship harm: screwups, mistreatment and abuse and the statement that "...your reactions can be traced back to some old wound when you were most vulnerable...Your past relationship wounds can cause you to accept unreasonable behavior from others. These same wounds can cause you to hurt the people closest to you." Another large part of the book is understanding the Vulnerability Cycle, why you might feel like you keep having the same argument over and over and how to address your own behavior to help stop it. The Decision Tree was another great tool to help with the unique and personal decision of whether or not to stay in a relationship and at what level of engagement.
This book was received for free in return for an honest review.
I personally gained a lot of valuable information from reading Who Deserves Your Love. Right from the introduction, I gained insight into myself and why I react the way I do in relationships due to psychological safety needs. I appreciated the breakdown of the three types of relationship harm: screwups, mistreatment and abuse and the statement that "...your reactions can be traced back to some old wound when you were most vulnerable...Your past relationship wounds can cause you to accept unreasonable behavior from others. These same wounds can cause you to hurt the people closest to you." Another large part of the book is understanding the Vulnerability Cycle, why you might feel like you keep having the same argument over and over and how to address your own behavior to help stop it. The Decision Tree was another great tool to help with the unique and personal decision of whether or not to stay in a relationship and at what level of engagement.
This book was received for free in return for an honest review.
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