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The School of Life: Relationships

learning to love
By The School of Life
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In The School of Life: Relationships, The School of Life explores the complexities and dynamics of modern relationships. The book offers insights and advice on how to build and maintain healthy, fulfilling connections, addressing common challenges and providing practical strategies for improvement.
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You might enjoy this book if you are looking to understand the complexities of relationships and seek practical advice on building and maintaining strong connections with your loved ones. This book offers valuable insights and strategies to enhance your emotional intelligence and improve your interpersonal interactions.

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A book to inspire closeness and connection, helping people not only to find love but to make it last.

A book to encourage compassion and forgiveness, showing us how we can work towards a better and kinder world.

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Few things promise us greater happiness than our relationships, yet few things more reliably deliver misery and frustration. Our error is to suppose that we are born knowing how to love and that managing a relationship might therefore be intuitive and easy. The School of Life: Relationships starts from a different premise: that love is a skill to be learnt, rather than just an emotion to be felt.

It calmly and charmingly takes us around the key issues of relationships, from arguments to sex, forgiveness to communication, making sure that success in love need never again be just a matter of luck.

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The School of Life: Relationships is praised for offering a simple and honest perspective on love and relationships, challenging common stereotypes and highlighting the influence of romantic love stories on our perceptions. Readers find it eye-opening and highly recommend it.

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ISBN: 9781912891979

Publisher: The School of Life Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 March 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: The School of Life Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 120

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About the Author

The School of Life is a global organisation helping people lead more fulfilled lives. Through our range of books, gifts and stationery we aim to prompt more thoughtful natures and help everyone to find fulfilment.



The School of Life is a resource for exploring self-knowledge, relationships, work, socialising, finding calm and enjoying culture through content, community and conversation. You can find us online, in stores and in welcoming spaces around the world offering classes, events and one-to-one therapy sessions.The School of Life Press brings together the thinking and ideas of the School of Life creative team under the direction of series editor, Alain de Botton.

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