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F*ck Love
F*ck Love: One Shrink's Sensible Advice for Finding a Lasting Relationship | Michael Bennett, MD, Sarah Bennett
5 posts | 8 read | 1 to read
From the brilliant New York Times bestselling authors of the “refreshingly blunt” (Harper’s Bazaar) F*ck Feelings—this seriously irreverent roadmap reveals the essentials to look for when you're done being suckered by the promise of true love and want help seeking a real, lasting relationship. Many people have opinions on the subject of romantic relationships—why they’re so hard to find, so difficult to maintain, so easily analogized to planets and pets—but the real source of trouble isn’t too complicated: it’s that we are choosing our partners based on love, excitement, lust, attraction, neediness…on feelings. Instead of helping readers find true love (also known as “total bullshit”), Dr. Michael Bennett and his comedy-writing daughter Sarah reveal the practical, commonsense criteria for good partnerships that will allow real love to develop, even after the romance has died down or been buried completely. Finding a good partner involves losing preconceived notions about who your dream date might be, so the Bennetts helpfully appraise the pros and cons of eight traits people most commonly seek: charisma, beauty, chemistry, communication, sense of humor, family stability, intelligence, and wealth. They suggest you’ll have better luck finding a partner in a bar, online, or on a date arranged by your chiropractor if you focus on ideas like mutual attraction and respect and common interests and common goals. With helpful quizzes, case studies inspired by Dr. Bennett’s practice, and unscientific flow charts, F*ck Love is packed with enough advice and wisdom to help you avoid the relationship nightmares that led you to this book in the first place.
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Dre43
Pickpick

Pretty good book and very interesting held my attention most of the time. A good read on a rainy day.

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CorLie
Panpan

Break from the book challenge because this book looked somewhat interesting. It wasn't. About 1/5 was decent, if not novel, advice. Over a half was obviously recycled advice blog posts*, strung together to kind of form a point of view. The rest was gimmicky filler. All of it was **TRYING TOO HARD** to be edgy or relevant or millenial or something.

Basically, someone got a contract for a 250 page book and only had 30 pages of content.

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kaykay521
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Mehso-so

Meh...so so. The book did have some decent advice, but so much of it seemed to be just basic common sense to me. Plus I‘m not sure I agree with the idea of treating finding a life partner exactly like a business transaction.

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alvingregorio
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Mehso-so

There were nuggets of wisdom, mixed with hilarious sarcasm. Overly practical and too pragmatic for my taste, and some of the advice was... unsavory. An indiscriminate reader might take all of what this book offers at face value, which scares me.

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OneCent76
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Barcoding new books at work and found these grouped together. Is this a new fad? D*mn! :p