Long Relationships

Relationship Magic invites you on a journey that moves away from childhood habits of reacting and moves towards gaining control of your personal power. Enjoy the tale of Prince James and Princess Cinda while you learn the basics of Imago Relationship Therapy. This couple, and their mentor, teach you how to be your own best friend rather than your worst enemy.

Being married just over a year and having everything still going very well, I wasn’t sure how I would react to a relationship book. However, I decided to go in with an open mind, and I’m glad I did.

Relationship Magic takes you through the lives of Prince James and Princess Cinda as they work through their issues and try to rebuild their crumbling marriage. While the reader (as I did) may at first feel ‘talked down’ to when having the subject of a deteriorating marriage put into a fairy-tale-esque type story, it makes the story easier to get into and the messages the author wants to get across easier to understand.

I was surprised to find myself so easily drawn into the relationship of the characters and applying it to my own relationship. Some lessons weren’t of interest to me, but I could see current behaviours of mine and childhood traumas that could easily lead to some of the problems James and Cinda were facing.

In the back of the book, there are also sections to help you get started with your own ‘relationship magic’ as well as a section for all the questions posed previously in the book.

I definitely recommend this book whether you ‘need’ relationship help or not. My husband and I don’t, but I still found things in the book that I could apply to my marriage and think about.

Hello everyone!

I recently had the pleasure of reading Leslie Oren’s book Fine, I’ll Go Online! The Hollywood Publicist’s Guide to Successful Internet Dating. Being the happily married lady I am, I wondered if I would find the book a chore to read. However, the fact that my husband and I met online and later married made me want to give this guide a chance. Leslie says many of the things I say to people when they talk about the ’stigma’ when it comes to online dating…

Leslie starts the book exactly how I expected a good publicist should: She pitched her idea and let you know exactly why she’s qualified to be giving you advice. Why does the pitch work in a book? Because it’s a book designed to guide, and Leslie makes you feel safe. She let’s you know you’ll be working with a professional from here on out when it comes to your online dating life – a professional who happens to have lived and learned by taking her own advice!

Though the book is designed to guide and coming from a Hollywood publicist, you might feel like things might get overwhelming and confusing. That’s not the case with this online dating diva because she talks to you like the older sister who has been dating online and knows exactly what you’re going through no matter what step you are at.

What I love about this book is that Leslie not only speaks with confidence, but she also acknowledges things can be very scary. She gives you end of chapter recaps of what she’s talked about as well as breaking up the chapters with short (all about half a page) stories about people she knows who have met their love online.

Leslie truly provides a step-by-step guide. You don’t have to worry about being left to wonder “where do I go from here” after the first email or even after the first date. She guides you from on the computer to out on the town and back again, which I found very impressive.

If you are nervous about getting into online dating or even if you haven’t tried the big singles’ sites yet, I highly recommend this book. Leslie will make you feel at ease and will help you to acknowledge your feelings all along the way while helping you to present the best of yourself (without lying about anything!).