The Seven Steps to Passionate Love

by William Cornelius Van Horne and MD Dr. William Van Horn

The 7 Steps to Passionate Love is a revolutionary guide for people searching to enrich their relationships with a more profound and intimate experience of love. It is a challenge to become a more... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967735807
• ISBN13: 9780967735801
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Brilliant in a very practical way!

My husband and I both have professional degrees from Ivy League universities. About 20 years into our lonely, workaholic marriage, I was seriously thinking about leaving him. Yet because I did not want to subject our son to the anguish of divorce, I started to search for books that could help us learn how to improve our relationship and deepen our love for one another.Two books helped tremendously: David Schnarch's Passionate Marriage, and William Van Horn's 7 Steps to Passionate Love. Each is brilliant in a different way. Schnarch's book helped us to see that "emotional gridlock" was inevitable in a longterm relationship, but that there were ways to grow individually and collectively into a much more fulfilling relationship. Van Horn's book has helped us to see what we must do day-to-day to create a more satisfyingly loving experience. Van Horn's book is lacking re design, editing, and proofing, but these are minor complaints. Today, we are a far happier couple because of the things that we learned from these two wise books.

Review from a skeptic- this book WILL change your life!

I started seeing Dr. Van Horn in the summer of 1996 at a time in my life when I was severely depressed. I continue to see him today. In all honesty, coming from a true skeptic, the process outlined in this book completely changed my life. In a society that wants to drug away their problems and a psychiatric community that keeps people on the counseling bandwagon for years, this book is SO needed. Dr. Van Horn teaches you the the truth about why you feel the feelings you do, and why you act the way you do and how to change! These are principles that I have for life to utilize for life based on a foundation of love. If I could I would buy it for every person I know. The skeptic says,"Get it"!

Real Hope for a Truly Intimate, Loving Relationship On EARTH

Having read Men Are From Mars; Women Are From Venus, John Gray misses the mark where really intimate, loving relationships are concerned. His perception of the dynamics involved in relationships between men and women brings to mind the movie The Stepford Wives. In the movie, women are merely automotons, meeting the basic needs and desires of men, never needing to relate intimately with them or get involved in their lives. Rather than offering a hollow substitute, Dr. William Van Horn's book, The Seven Steps to Passionate Love, teaches couples how to enjoy a relationship of satisfying substance built on a solid foundation. You will not only learn what skills and tools are necessary to build and maintain true intimacy and passion in your relationship, but also how to heal the pain each partner brings into it. You will also learn how to break the destructive patterns that prevent lovers from effectively communicating. If this book had been available ten years ago, my husband and I would not have wasted so much time, money and energy on other ineffective books, tapes, videos and marriage councelling. We have literally fallen in love again and enjoy a truly intimate,loving,passionate relationship we never dreamed possible. Learning The Seven Steps to Passionate Love helped a dream become a reality. Thank you, Dr. Van Horn!

Real Life Advice

My wife and I read this book together and love it. A few years ago we read the Mars Venus one and felt like we had to act in serotypical ways, it was very limiting. This book goes way beyond that stupid cave theory and helps you understand love is something that you can get if you have the capability to love. Our love is now rekindled and better than ever. If you can use help with your love life, you and your spouse should read this.

Finally! A Relationship Book with Depth

I wanted to learn how to energize my marriage, but I couldn't find any book that offered real solutions. When I read "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus", I had trouble relating to the women John Gray described, so it was difficult to apply any of his teachings (most of which, by the way, seemed very sexist to me). Dr. Van Horn talks about experiencing love on a whole new level and that's exactly what my marriage needed. Now, my husband and I are even closer to each other than we were when we first met. It feels good to share this love again and it spills out into our relationship with our children and friends. After reading this book, I feel WHOLE.