Loving Him Without Losing You: How to Stop Disappearing and Start Being Yourself - Seven Empowering Strategies for Better Relationships

Although modern women are able to maintain a successful independent life , many still psychologically succumb to the old-fashioned societal expectation that their overriding role is to be a loving subservient mate to their man. By reading Loving Him Without Losing You, "women will come to understand that the tendency to lose themselves in relationships is partly a natural by-product of their cultural conditioning and biological hardwiring".

Beverly Engel, psychotherapist and author of numerous self-help books for women (such as Raising Your Sexual Self-Esteem), sets about explaining the phenomenon of the "Disappearing Woman". A woman who, in spite of being strong, secure and self-assured, forfeits her own personality and ignores her own needs whenever she enters into a romantic relationship.

Do you tend to fall head over heels in love quickly and intensely? Do you neglect friendships to be with your lover? Do you tend to undervalue and question your own feelings whenever they differ from your lover's? Do you need constant reassurance of your lover's feelings toward you? According to Engel, these are just some of the symptoms of "Disappearing Woman" syndrome.

Loving Him Without Losing You offers empathy and insight coupled with exercises and cures. By including excerpts of interviews with 47 subjects, the author illustrates the biological and sociological factors that cause women to become "emotional chameleons" and offers advice to those stuck in similar behavioural ruts. Empowering and encouraging, Losing Him Without Losing You is a must for all women who immerse themselves in their men. --Christopher Kelly