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99 LIES ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS & DATING: The Beliefs About Love, Attraction, and Commitment That Are Quietly Sabotaging Your Relationships and the Truths That Fix Them. - Softcover

Bob, Marle

 
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Synopsis

You didn't choose most of what you believe about love. You inherited it from movies, from family patterns, from the loudest advice in the room, repeated so often it started to feel like fact.

99 Lies About Relationships & Dating takes apart the beliefs quietly running your love life without your permission: that chemistry means you've found "the one," that real love should feel effortless, that jealousy proves someone cares, that a little distance and a little game-playing is how attraction is built. One by one, each lie is named, traced back to why it felt true in the first place, and replaced with a clearer, more useful truth.

Organized into 11 chapters covering attraction, dating, communication, commitment, conflict, trust, intimacy, breakups, long-term love, gender roles, and outside influence, this book doesn't ask you to overhaul your relationship overnight. It asks you to notice which of your convictions were ever actually yours and which ones were just repeated at you until they stuck.

Each of the 99 entries follows the same shape: the lie, why it took hold, and the truth that replaces it because understanding *why* a belief felt convincing is what keeps it from sneaking back in. Every chapter closes with a five-question "Test Yourself" quiz to help the ideas actually stick, and the back matter includes a rapid-fire Myth vs. Truth cheat sheet for the most quotable lies in the book.

Whether you're single and tired of chasing advice that doesn't hold up, newly dating and trying to separate real signals from noise, or years into a relationship wondering why some of the old rules stopped making sense, this book gives you permission to stop performing beliefs you never chose and start building a relationship on ones that actually work.

Read it start to finish, or open to whatever chapter stings the most tonight. Either way works.

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