FROM PAIN TO PASSION Building a Truly Great Relationship

Though we want romantic love to run on autopilot, mature love takes work, according to the radio and TV expert whose website--www.AskAdele.com--offers relationship advice. Though offered in the language of marriage therapy and office case studies, the advice incorporates some of the most sophisticated ideas available on making love relationships work. The ideas are collapsed into nine themes that are vividly illustrated and will make sense to people of all ages. The author's reading is innocent and endearing, but it works well to deliver the brutal truth in a palatable way: Good relationships require emotional insight, discipline, relentless communication, and enough patience, love, and respect to weather the inevitable storms in one or both people. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine [Published: JUN/ JUL 04]