How can I love you if I love myself?

This book is a practical guide to a new kind of relationship. In it, Marshall Rosenberg turns a familiar notion on its head: for him, love is not a feeling that simply comes to us, but something we do, willingly and from the heart, time and time again.

At its core, it’s about openness: honestly showing your partner, your family and your friends what is alive within you at that moment, without putting on a front. And to be just as attentive to what is going on inside the other person at that moment, to receive it with empathy and to connect with their feelings and desires. From this joyful giving and receiving arises the heart-to-heart connection we all long for.

Rosenberg shows how giving and receiving can succeed without feelings of guilt and without the sense of being obliged to do anything. In this way, relationships can develop in which nobody needs to prove anything anymore.

Translated from the English by Michael Dillo. Published by Junfermann Verlag, 72 pages.