Intimate passionate love has been the undying quest of human beings in western cultures and immortalised in movies, literature and the arts. The desire to be intimately related to another to whom one feels cherished, precious and unconditionally accepted and understood is at the heart of the dream. Once found we wake to the realities of intimacy with all the passion and pain of living in an intimate relationship. It becomes a furnace for the burnishing of our minds and hearts evoking both aversion and desire, longing and avoidance, warmth and coldness, intimacy and alienation.

This book provides a deep and enlightening revelation on how and why relationships can sometimes be a roller coaster of emotions and it elucidates not only the biological drives that bring us together but the deepest psycho-spiritual karmas that drive the meeting. It provides signposts that herald danger and strategies for maximising the potential strength in your intimate relationship.

A must read for anyone who has ever asked the question: How could such intense love and passion end this way?