True Love: How to Make Your Relationship Sweeter, Deeper and More Passionate

by Daphne Rose Kingma

Wherever you are on the relationship spectrum—married, dating, or single—you can learn about love! Expert on love and relationship oracle Daphne Rose Kingma is here to help readers love more passionately. Your go-to guide to healthy love. Love can come in many ways, and can be just as complex as it is beautiful. Relationship books for women and love gifts for men tend to focus on the end goal being something physical, but the best love stories end with something better than that—healthy love and tips to being a power couple. True Love is a spiritual love book that focuses on building the foundations of love and how to experience a healthy love within all of your relationships, including the relationship you have with yourself. A warm and welcoming voice from an expert on love. Daphne Rose Kingma knows what it takes to experience deep love and how to become a real-life power couple. Her witty, poetic voice, recognizable from her frequent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show , helps couples and individuals to embrace passionate marriages and deep relationships. Read her keys to creating sweet, healthy marriages and relationships right here! Inside True Love , you’ll If you enjoy love books—best sellers like The Naked Marriage , Married Roommates , or Modern Love , you’ll love True Love .

Genres: Relationships, Self Help

204 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 1991

Reviews

[Janet · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dismissed as one of those fluffy fillers that are overused in Easter baskets and Christmas stockings, True Love sat on my nightstand for over a decade. The only time I picked it up was to dust in and around it’s resting place. A recent change in my relationship status brought to light what I’d been missing.

This tiny package is crammed with great things and should be on the shelf of every committed couple’s library. Each 6”x6” double page spread covers a very specific aspect of a relationship. No long drawn-out chapters (destined to glaze man eyes or induce man naps). In less than 10 minutes, you and your partner can be enlightened and motivated to focus in on a single piece of the puzzle of your relationship.

Examples of “chapters” include...

Love is a Process, Not a Destination
Your Sweetheart Isn’t You
Relationships Have Seasons
Reveal What Makes You Feel Loved
Fight the Good Fight
Apologize, Apologize, Apologize

SUGGESTION: When a relationship issue arises, this book can serve as an effective argument diffuser. Find the page that addresses your part of the situation, sit down, and soak it up. Then, find the page that you feel best brings to light your partner’s part. Either sit down and read both chapters together...or...use a couple of Post Its, a pen, and healthy doses of humility, sensitivity, and love to write notes to mark each respective page and leave the Post It endowed book in a place your partner will soon find it.

[Megan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Haven’t read through the whole thing, only skimmed - but I love how timeless, mature, and truly sweet all the advice is. I especially love that it’s not needlessly gendered/unnecessarily asserting gender roles in romantic love, like many non-fiction books about romance (especially older ones). It is also secular.

It’s packed full of lovely info, I’m guessing most helpful for very established couples who may want some reminders or new lessons. But this book also has a lot of wisdom for newer romantic relationships or if you want to get an idea of what a healthier relationship (rooted in mutual respect, appreciation, and care… rather than possession) looks like.

I’ll be honest, I have no idea where I got my book - maybe from my parents? Maybe from a garage sale in the 2000s? Either way, finding a book from 30 years ago that resonates with my values (as a very progressive elder Gen Z) was really nice. I will be using this book in my new romantic relationship and have shared some of it with my (male) partner who also enjoyed it.

The book is broken into 5 large themes. With a new bit of advice every 1-2 pages, which is then expanded upon. This book can be read all the way through, but also reads very well by choosing pages at random or just reading whatever lessons interest you.

The lessons in this book can be applied to non-monogamous romantic connections and many friendships as well :)

[VeeDawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Everyone wants true love, and this book teaches you how to experience it. Witty, poetic, and exuberant, True Love contains an introduction to the essence of love, as well as over sixty suggestions for expanding the psychological and spiritual aspects of love."
I have loved the suggestions in this book for many years--they have been true elements in my 49 years of marriage.

[Michelle Nichols · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book made me feel good. Great reminders how to make your relationship beautiful.

[Bridget · Rating 4 out of 5]

In such a small package. Who would have thought it. It is a very insightful book full of the small things that should make a relationship last forever. It should be required reading each year of a marriage. OR better yet after each disagreement. Remind you of why you entered the relationship. Also how to make the relationship much more fulfilling for both partners. Give a set as a engagement gift or a wedding gift.

[Rachel]

Legitimate self-help books don't need to be saved for when your life is in crisis... I subscribe to the "make a great thing even greater" camp. Look forward to reading this.

[Dawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Should be required reading for all couples. Now, just need to do what it says. (laughing out loud)

[Armatstorage]

Great book. Every married person should read!

[Swhite]

A book full of priceless gems of relationship insight. Not to be underestimated. Read years ago.

[Margaret · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like how this series of essays, both sappy and practical, included encouraging a point of view that everyrelationship has the larger result in shaping who we are becoming.