Rational Relating: The Smart Way to Stay Sane in the Crazy World of Love

Relationships don't have to be that hard! Billions of people are walking around on this Earth, trying to connect with others and build meaningful and satisfying bonds. Yet for so many, there is something getting in the way of this wonderful experience. Something is preventing individuals and couples from having the joyful life they want and deserve. Rational Relating guides you through the simple, step-by-step process of creating and sustaining a relationship structure that serves to enhance love, serenity, and pleasure, while minimizing stress, resentment, and fear in relationships. It outlines the "five pillars" that will uphold and sustain emotional connections, even during the rough times. It will give you clear tools and resources for discovering abundance in your life, while using the power of your mind and spirit to enhance positive, nurturing relationships. If you are in the early stages of a new relationship, heading toward marriage or partnership, or even looking for refreshing ways to reconnect in a long-term partnership, then Rational Relating will offer you smart, innovative, and fun ways to create the love you want with others. Based on two decades of experience and thousands of sessions, Damon L. Jacobs has developed a simple framework that helps couples build a lasting and sustainable union that endures the largest and smallest of relationship "earthquakes."

Damon L. Jacobs has worked as a marriage/family therapist in both New York and California since 1996. His years of helping couples led him to develop an effective and comprehensive framework for helping couples enhance joy, serenity, and pleasure in their relationships. His ideas combine psychological theories, spiritual perspectives, social justice, and the newer science of seismic retrofitting, in order to allow couples to create a unique and sustainable "structure" He currently maintains his private practice in Manhattan, New York.