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You used to be so in love, so connected. But now, planning anything, making decisions, talking over issues-even lovemaking-is fraught with tension and difficulty. It seems that you're complete opposites, and you're beginning to think your relationship may never work out.
In When Opposites Attract, Rebecca Cutter draws from her extensive work with both straight and gay couples to propose a bold new solution to the problem of couple communication. She makes the case that it's right-brain or left- brain dominance, rather than gender, that plays the greatest role in how partners and spouses approach the world and one another.
Right-brainers are intuitive; they value emotion, intimacy and connectedness; they tend to think in associative patterns and "illogical" leaps. (Their left-brain partners complain that they're disorganized and too needy.) Left brainers love facts, linear thought processes, and familiar routines. (Their right-brain partners find them emotionally unavailable and inhibited.) The good news is that once "opposites" learn to negotiate their differences, they can heal their conflicts and embark on a profoundly rewarding journey of discovery with one another.
ISBN:9780525937319
