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Summary of Loving Bravely 

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What’s inside

Unlock the golden doors to cultivating deep partnerships. Recognize a potentially harmful relationship and find the love you truly want and deserve.

You’ll learn

  • Where the love comes from
  • The secret to thriving relationships
  • The mysterious ways your past shapes your love life
  • Why self-compassion matters
  • The healing power of forgiveness

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  • Topics in Loving Bravely
first key point

We can't be completely honest with others until we are truthful with ourselves

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Sitting around and hoping for the right person to come along is not a viable strategy. Our most adventurous and significant endeavor will be to examine, understand, and develop ourselves so that we may be special to others. We must bring a positive light into others’ lives as we expect them to do to ours.
Brave love simply means that we commit ourselves to staying with the messy richness of love instead of ignoring it, suppressing it, or being crushed by it. ~ Dr. Alexandra H. Solomon
When we pay attention to and take responsibility for how we love, we attract partners who are as engaged, caring, and willing to be vulnerable as we are. We’re able to show up as our true selves without fear or confusion. In addition, we build long-lasting personal relationships with people who value genuine and profound connections through self-awareness. It’s easier to commit to others when we know what we like and how we react to the things around us.
Our love for ourselves significantly influences our love for others. So, we can't be enthusiastic about others until we love ourselves.
Self-awareness is recognizing and understanding our history, character, feelings, ambitions, and desires. It means true acceptance of who we are and what makes us behave the way we do. This tidbit is about developing relational self-awareness, which is the ability to see how we show up for love in a very emotional way. It doesn't matter how many talents, tools, and pieces of relationship advice we have; if we don’t base them on the commitment to a brave, questioning, and compassionate connection with ourselves, we'll struggle to love others properly.

In the subsequent chapters, we’ll learn more about self-love and how we can love others in the right way. We’ll also see how we can build existing and new relationships, navigate conflict, and show up for ourselves and our loved ones.
second key point

Enjoying the present requires learning from the past and being open to healing

Although we all exist in the present moment with the future in front of us, we are still heavily influenced and shaped by the past — the lens through which we experience the present moment. For example, the family you grew up in granted you your first relationship experience. Through the kind of love that existed in your family, you learned lessons about giving and receiving love, handling differences and conflicts, and asking for your needs to be met. Your parents' relationship was your first intimate model, whether the relationship was loving, dysfunctional, or broken. Even if your parents never had a close bond, the absence of a relationship may impact you; you learned about love through your parents' interactions.
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Our culture shapes how we make decisions regarding intimate relationships and how we feel about those choices

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Even though sex is entirely natural, intimacy needs some effort

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Apologies are a powerful tool for de-escalating a difficult situation and improving our relationships with others

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It’s easy to fall out of love when we fail to prioritize our relationships with others

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