Get the 10 essential steps to a successful, long-term relationship that supports your personal growth and healing in this critically acclaimed book. The Perfect Relationship shows you how to establish and strengthen the backbone of your relationship - your connection with your partner. It reveals how the unconscious patterns all couples fall into cause automatic reactions rather than genuine communication. It illustrates how when we over-identify with a particular part of our personality, such as the pleaser, controlling parent, needy child, responsible self, perfectionist or rebellious child, all kinds of relationship problems result, such as diminished desire, increased judgment, difficulty with communication and intimacy, and attractions to other people. This book explains how to navigate the bonding patterns in your relationship so that you can deal with any relationship issue. The 10 steps can transform your entire life if you have the desire to more fully understand yourself, your partner, and the process of relating. They include profound ideas from leading-edge psychological research and common-sense advice, presented as a simple and practical guide. Astra Niedra is an internationally-respected teacher of Voice Dialogue, a unique personal growth system that involves working with the many facets of the psyche known as selves or inner selves. Her other books include The Greatest Relationship Secret, The Simplest Relationship Remedy, Which Self Are You? and Enlightenment Through Motherhood. "This book could really save your relationship..." - Rebecca "We want you to know how much we enjoyed your book... My husband Peter and I are using it as a guide." - Francesca "I loved your book. It was very easy to read, and really brought my awareness to the 'mother' part of me even though I have no children! Not surprisingly, the first step has been the hardest. How can something so simple as spending time in your partner's energy feel so alien? It's been great working through the book with my fiancé, I appreciate him and our relationship a lot more when looking at it from a different perspective." - Narrah "This was really enlightening. ...it provides eye-opening info and easy to understand cures for stalled relationships. An absolutely stellar read." - Laura "...filled with powerful yet easy to apply methods that can really improve any type of relationship. I recommend this book wholeheartedly." - Michael Domeyko Rowland "A wonderfully simple, clear and practical book on relationship that will be of great help to anyone who reads it. Astra Niedra has an ability to work with very profound ideas and translate them into language that makes them available to people with little psychological experience." - Dr Hal Stone and Dr Sidra Stone