Real Love—The Truth About Finding Unconditional Love and Fulfilling Relationships

"Once in a great while, I find a book that is head and shoulders above the rest. I could not wait to turn each page. It was like stepping from the shadows into the sun! Dr. Baer has given us a monumental achievement in understanding love and relationships."
Metaphysical Reviews

"This book is a benchmark event in our understanding of relationships. It takes real genius to explain relationships simply, in a way everyone can understand—Greg Baer is a visionary leader who has done that."
Allen Hunkin, radio host

"I couldn't stop reading this phenomenal book! It was powerful, motivating, and simple!"
Steve Hexom, KBUR

Most of us are not genuinely happy, and we prove that with our desperate pursuit of money, power, sex, and entertainment—and with our anger, constant seeking of approval, and withdrawing from relationships. We do all these things because we're trying to fill a huge emptiness inside us, an emptiness created because we don't have enough of the one thing—love—that we need more than anything else in order to be happy. But not just any kind of love will do. We need unconditional love—Real Love—where we can make our foolish mistakes and fail to do what other people want, but they're still not disappointed or angry with us.

Very few of us have received that kind of love. Instead, we've been "loved" when we've met the expectations of others—when we've been "good." In other words, we pay for the love we receive, and that leaves us feeling empty and alone. To fill our emptiness, and to protect ourselves from pain, we manipulate and control the people around us in predictable ways that consistently lead to disaster in relationships. Two people without sufficient Real Love cannot enjoy a loving and happy relationship. They can only experience the temporary satisfaction of Imitation Love in the form of praise, power, pleasure, and safety.

Most of us have been searching all our lives for the secret to happiness. It's not a secret. In Real Love—The Truth About Finding Unconditional Love and Fulfilling Relationships, learn why we—and other people— keep behaving in ways that are so unproductive, even harmful. Learn how to take the simple and powerfully effective steps that lead to the Real Love that invariably gives us the genuine, lasting happiness we want. And learn how to share that love with others, which profoundly enriches our relationships with spouses, children, parents, friends, and co-workers.

Publisher: Gotham Books, division of Penguin Putnam USA Inc