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Truth in Dating: Finding Love by Getting Real Kindle Edition

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Millions of single people — whether never married or divorced — put a lot of energy into meeting and dating new people, but because they don't invest their true selves, their efforts often go nowhere. To counter this trend, Susan M. Campbell presents an approach to dating that many consider radical: Be honest about yourself and ask for what you want, up front.

Campbell shows people how to have fun by flirting truthfully; date without getting ahead of the relationship; enjoy the freedom of being themselves; relate to their dates with honesty; realistically examine what a romantic partner can — and can't — offer in the way of fulfillment and happiness; and move forward when the time is right, or say goodbye if it's not working. On the way to finding the love of their lives, readers gain the tools they need to successfully manage the entire process.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004OL24DW
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ New World Library (February 8, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 8, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1059 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 338 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings

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Susan M. Campbell
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Psychologist Susan Campbell has worked as a corporate trainer and relationship coach for over 50 years. A former professor at the University of Massachusetts, she is author of twelve books on the topic of relationships and human communication. Her most recent work centers on how to use honest, present-centered communication as vehicle for personal healing and expanded self-awareness. This body of work has put her at the forefront of the Honesty Movement in Psychology and is detailed in her best-selling, Getting Real and her more recent books, Truth in Dating, Saying What's Real, and Five Minute Relationship Repair. Her work has been featured in many popular magazines including New Woman, Psychology Today, Self, Harvard Business Review, Seventeen, Men's Health, New Age, Fast Company, and Yoga Journal. To view her recent work on video, go to You Tube and search for drsusan95472. For more information, visit her website www.susancampbell.com

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Customers find the book practical and useful. They say it provides useful information and is a great guide for relationships. The book disperses theory, practice, and examples in an engaging format. It complements other resources that help people communicate effectively.

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"...I found her to be unpretentious and personable, as well as a good teacher. I highly recommend her to you." Read more

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Customers appreciate the book's authenticity. They find it helpful for fostering honest relationships and deep connections with themselves. The book encourages open communication and honesty.

"Getting Real, Saying What's Real, and Truth in Dating are three of Susan Campbell's books that I have been reading and rereading recently...." Read more

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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2024
    Susan Campbell’s Getting Real is the most practical guide I know of. This book takes that and her The Couple’s Journey into the dating world. I’ve also known established couples who found it useful. I have often suggested to young people, telling them you don’t necessarily read from front to back. You can look through it with your partner stopping to read where you find an interesting pull quote
  • Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2010
    Getting Real, Saying What's Real, and Truth in Dating are three of Susan Campbell's books that I have been reading and rereading recently. These books are making a difference in my life.

    Keeping relationships alive and living life fully - this is what Susan's books address.

    She has a lifetime of experience working as a therapist, author, coach, and consultant. Based on this experience, she has developed a set of simple principles and tools that we can apply every day of our lives.

    I find her ideas very helpful in looking at past relationships - what went right and what went wrong. I feel much more optimistic about creating a solid relationship in the future.

    Susan is an excellent writer (and teacher). I recently attended a workshop that Susan lead. I found her to be unpretentious and personable, as well as a good teacher.

    I highly recommend her to you.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2010
    First I read "Saying What's Real," which I highlighted until it looks like a rainbow. So, I took my chances on this book and, again, found so much useful information that's it's hard to capture it all in this window. I can't say enough about the practical advice and numerous examples Susan Campbell lays out in this book.
    Suffice it to say that Ms. Campbell has proven to me that I can handle the truth and whatever side-effects come from it. After all, if I tell you I can't tolerate perfumes and you continue to wear it strong, I've got some decisions to make. And, deciding to be true to myself, I am sure I'll be better off without someone who disrespects me.
    In my opinion, it's a book about learning to stand for something versus accepting the justifications I tell myself and making us both miserable. Or, said another way, being co-dependent always backfires, so why not choose the truth.
    There are exercises to work with if you have a partner, whether new or someone you've been with for years.
    She's the best! I highly recommend!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2015
    In preparation for writing my own book on the pitfalls and promises of internet dating, I surveyed the existing dating literature – and discovered that much of it was nonsense or trivial or simply pablum for little minds. Of those books, many were written by academic women with degrees in the social sciences who seemed to have little acquaintance with logic and little insight into or empathy for men. Therefore, when I read that Susan Campbell has a Ph.D. in psychology and is a “relationship coach and a teamwork consultant” – I was prepared to be disappointed again. Happily, I was not. Dr. Campbell knows what she is talking about, and she is not, as many female authors tend to be, an ardent feminist with an axe to grind. The book is well-written – and she actually likes and understands men. Intellectually, Dr. Campbell is the kind of woman most thinking men would like to marry.

    The premise of this book is stated in the subtitle, “Finding Love by Getting Real” and by the line on the flyleaf, “Honesty is the only hope for relationships.” I couldn’t agree more. In successful relationships, men and women are partners, not adversaries or reciprocal users. Dr. Campbell’s book is devoted to insights on how to make dating “real” rather than the romantic charade that passes for relationships in the popular media, fairy tales, and the minds of the immature. Her approach to making dating “real” is to persuade men and women to be honest with each other and with themselves – to take the pretense out of dating and to moderate expectations. That is excellent advice, but not easy to do if you or your date are not already mature and relatively free of romantic or political expectations of male-female relationships.

    For that reason, I favor in my own book dispensing altogether with “dating,” an artificial construct, in favor of “relating,” doing normal things together as friends and building reciprocal trust and understanding through shared activities (work and play) meaningful to both. But although our approaches to “dating” are different, Dr. Campbell and I agree on all material points, and I recommend this book very highly.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2013
    I bought a copy for my girlfriend and we read it together. I'm not sure we would have made it through the first year without it. We are now six years into a rich, steamy, completely honest relationship. I had no idea hot hot honesty could be. TID introduces all the relationship principles that I had only dreamed as possible and showed a way to make them real.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2015
    I love this book!
    I think that it really complements other resources that help people to communicate openly and honestly, as much with themselves as with others. For example, there's an exercise where you and the person take turns answering the question, "“I’m Afraid You Would Reject Me If You Knew...” I agree with the author that, "If you take a risk and tell the truth, you may find that the bond actually gets stronger."

    If you find this "Truth in Dating" helpful, some of those other resources that I feel compliment this book include, "Daring Greatly" by Brene Brown and "Nonviolent Communication" Marshall B. Rosenberg.
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