How to Understand Your Relationships, MegJohn Barker
How to Understand Your Relationships, MegJohn Barker
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How to Understand Your Relationships
A Practical Guide

Author: Meg-John Barker, Alex Iantaffi

Narrator: Robyn Holdaway

Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: John Murray

Published: 02/27/2025

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

'Profound and vulnerable. An essential gift for all of us that relate' - Anne Mauro

What do we mean when we say 'relationship'?
How do we separate our needs and desires from norms and expectations?
How can we approach our relationships with mutuality, care and compassion?

This down-to-earth guide is the ultimate companion for anybody who wants to examine their place in the world -- how we relate to ourselves, and others.

With considerations of historical, cultural, and developmental contexts; explorations of relationship diversity as it manifests in queerness, the ace and aro spectrum, non-monogamy and neurodivergence ; and a look towards deeper, compassionate, interdependent ways to relate - this book will help people of all ages, backgrounds and identities explore their relational world.

About Meg-John Barker

Meg-John Barker is a writer, therapist, and activist-academic specialising in sex, gender and relationships. They are a senior lecturer in psychology at the Open University. @megjohnbarker on Twitter.

About Alex Iantaffi

Alex Iantaffi is an internationally recognized independent scholar, speaker and writer on issues of gender, disability, sexuality and mental health. They are also a licensed marriage and family therapist, sex therapist, somatic experiencing practitioner and supervisor.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Royal on August 12, 2024

Although the authors write with a lot of empathy, kindness, and inclusivity in mind, it was hard to get into this book because the writing has a reoccurring issue of too much fluff and takes awhile to get into the substance of the book. Much of the content were long-winded and could be stated more s......more

Goodreads review by Síle on September 24, 2024

Received this book as an ARC. These thoughts are all my own. If you're not into psychological books, this book isn't for you. But if you are, give it a shot! I myself liked this. It was a bit difficult to read sometimes cause some of the content is missing, such as certain graphs and tables. Other tha......more

Goodreads review by Linn on April 08, 2025

This was so not my cup of tea at the moment. The definition of the book is just to heavy. Not the subject but the way how this book is formatted. The authors question the reader all the practical context we have in the society and as individuals. The book is interactive using: reflection points, acti......more

Goodreads review by Elina on May 01, 2025

Getting into this book was very hard for me, not because of the content, but because of the amount of fluff in the opening pages which just didn't make it something I wanted to reach for so I ended up soft DNF'ing. After almost 4 months, I did go back to it and it wasn't life changing, but it was de......more

Goodreads review by Moth on January 06, 2025

4.25/5 stars How to Understand Your Relationships is a book for self-reflection on your history and perspectives of relationships. It explores pretty much every type of relationships (familial, romantic, nonhuman, etc.) and how our cultural backgrounds affect our relationships. This book gave me a lo......more

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