If "Polyamory, The New Love Without Limits" rocked your world, you owe it to yourself to read this book as well! Deborah's warmth, humor, utter honesty, and lucid writing style cut through the misunderstandings that get in the way of intimacy, and give us an accurate map to the source of love inside ourselves. As we search for love in our lives, most of us often feel as though we're on a journey without a compass, or even worse, with a faulty map. We are programmed from our earliest childhood experiences with scores of assumptions about love.

We're taught male and female roles, and ways of seeing ourselves, that may lead to separation, fear and mistrust. These many fallacies and misconceptions lead us to associate love with disappointment and pain. In The Seven Natural Laws of Love, Dr. Deborah Anapol gives us a warm, simple and universal guide to the principles that are common to all loving relationships.

Drawing from the stories of the thousands of individuals and couples she has counseled in her workshops and private practice, from her own personal struggles and victories, and from sacred texts, Dr. Anapol distills love down to its basic essentials.

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Based on real-world observations, she identifies the seven laws that flow naturally from the true nature of love and shows how we can apply these to our lives. Her warmth, humor, utter honesty, and lucid writing style cut through the misunderstandings that get in the way of intimacy, and give us an accurate map to the source of love inside ourselves.

"Deborah is way ahead of the curve in terms of helping us understand what love is, our relationship to it, and our ways of relating from within it. The Seven Natural Laws of Love came to me at a most auspicious time, in the midst of the most heinous and awful family upset that threw me into a deep sense of victimhood and self-pity. On one tear-soaked afternoon, I devoured the words of this book like they were the most divine nectar, and I felt like I was being comforted and returned to a state of grace and greater consciousness.

—Amy Storm, director/creator of The Goddess Retreat

The original ground-breakingbook on responsible non-monogamy, first published in 1992; revised edition 1997.  Brand new updated edition of the basic sourcebook on ethical alternatives to monogamy and the nuclear family. Draws on psychological, spiritual, and mythic knowledge from many traditions to provide a complete description of polyamory and how to practice it. Well organized, a good read, with new chapters on ethics and jealousy.