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A review by iabouzied
The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book about Relationships by Neil Strauss
5.0
*This book is very graphic*
Wow, this book was just phenomenal.
While much of the book follows Strauss's excursions into exploring non-monogamy, it is ultimately about how unacknowledged childhood traumas prevent intimacy.
Strauss believes monogamy to be a broken system, restricting freedom and demonizing our most basic desires. After jumping around from non-monogamous relationship style to the next, he realizes that it is not the system that is broken, its him. Sex was his coping mechanism for trying to receive the love he was never given as a child. He is forced to confront his past and heal his childhood wounds.
Made my must-read list.
Wow, this book was just phenomenal.
While much of the book follows Strauss's excursions into exploring non-monogamy, it is ultimately about how unacknowledged childhood traumas prevent intimacy.
Strauss believes monogamy to be a broken system, restricting freedom and demonizing our most basic desires. After jumping around from non-monogamous relationship style to the next, he realizes that it is not the system that is broken, its him. Sex was his coping mechanism for trying to receive the love he was never given as a child. He is forced to confront his past and heal his childhood wounds.
Made my must-read list.