Terence Watts - The Secret Life of Love and Sex: Making relationships work and what to do if they dont

This book is engrossing to the point that time passes far more quickly than you realise while youre reading it. From the opening chapter which poses an important question which most will never have considered right at the beginning, to the closing paragraphs which inspire much thought, this is a fascinating and enjoyable read.

It becomes clear almost straight away that to enjoy a satisfying and successful relationship you have to first truly know yourself, and I defy anybody not to be surprised at what they discover about themselves in these pages! As soon as you start reading about the three major personality types, the Warrior, the Settler and the Nomad, you start to recognise your true self, the part you might have kept hidden for yearsand with that comes a staggering insight into why things dont always work out the way you want them to.

It is a fact that discovering why we behave in the way we do towards others, and why we react to them as we do, can provide an astonishingly clear insight into almost every aspect of relationships. So much so, that this book should be required reading for all those who are about to embark on a romance, whether its for the first, twenty-first or fifty-first time. You will discover more easily than you thought possible how to recognise the truth about the one you are preparing to entrust your emotions to before its too late!

But its not just about getting into a relationship in the first place. Its about how to sustain the feeling of love and affection that we usually start out with, or how to rekindle them if theyve faded. More importantly, perhaps, its also about how to easily extricate yourself from a pairing that has passed its sell by date or has become abusive.

The whole gamut of the relationship game is covered here; how to make sure you choose the right partner in the first place, how to keep sex alive and joyful, how to confidently sort out sexual difficulties, how to argue without ending up in the divorce courts and the times when a lie or a secret is a good thing and the other times when it will come back to haunt you. It even covers a whole host of common problems that are often prickly to deal with and shows the reader how to address them in such a way that there is a positive outcome instead of an argument.

Of course, not all relationships have a happy ending and when things go awry we can so easily descend into a welter of self-pity and self-recrimination that stops us from moving on for far too long. But there is even help for that unhappy circumstance here, help that can soon have you picking yourself up, brushing yourself down, and raring to move on to something new and spectacular because this book can help you find just that!

Dame Emma Jane Brown

Dame Emma Jane Brown is a former international show-jumper who was ranked the best female rider in Great Britain for many years. Winner of numerous championships, she represented her country in the Nations Cup no less than 13 times. After illness ended her career prematurely she has worked as a commentator for Sky and Eurosport, a columnist for several womens and lifestyle magazines and as a tireless charity ambassador. Emma received a knighthood for services to equestrianism in Malta in 2011 and runs a luxury concierge and events company.