Attitudes of Gratitude in Love: Creating More Joy in Your Relationship

When times are hard, like they are now, it is nice to read a pleasant book that reminds us to be thankful and look for the small things that are already in our life that we may have overlooked. Brings happiness to my heart to read a chapter at a time.

[...] As usual, M J Ryan has written an easily read book that allows the reader to absorb some very good ideas. Her chapters are generally short, precise, entertaining, and to the point. I have attempted to purchase all of this author's books. My one regret is that they have not been translated into Spanish. There are so many people here in the USA who speak only Spanish; it is a shame to deny them access to some excellent material.

Each of the short chapters in this helpful book focus on a particular common aspect of living with a significant other. With humor and accuracy, Ryan depicts familiar situations and negative reactions that arise in every day life. She then offers insights regarding how we can place the situation in a new perspective, one of gratitude, that is uplifting for ourselves as well as for our relationship. The book offers the "nuts and bolts" of how to be grateful in a long term relationship. Her writing makes me chuckle as I recognize myself!

This book is really great, whenever you find yourself getting frustated, or depressed or just fed up, it is a real pick-me-up, literally. It is a book you can read over and over again to feel calm and content in your everyday life. Brings you back down to earth and really makes you just appreciate the small things. I love it :-) Thanks Mary !

Don't be duped by the mind-candy, girly look of this book's cover! Attitudes of Gratitude deserves to be taken seriously by anyone who's serious about the practice of love. It's absolutely impossible to read this book without reflecting on all that you have received from your relationships and from your life experience. This powerful and potent feature makes the book worth buying and reading. MaryJane Ryan also reminds us that gratitude is a simple and effective tool for quickly undoing the false judgments we hold against self and others. This is because gratitude and resentment are mutually exclusive, and each one cancels the other one out. Because gratitude enables you to swiftly change your mind, it's a kind of magic fairy dust that turns you into the person you most want to be. Gratitude is easy. It's fast. And anyone can do it. Try it for yourself and see. (The Spiritual Reviewer)