If love--the greatest of human emotions--has

so far brought you little but pain and anguish,

hcrc is help.

Over the past fiftccn years, Dr. Ken Piazza

has treated thousands of unhappy people...

people, like you, who need a new way to love

and to be loved. When Love Hurts is his pre-

scription for all of us in pain--women and

men, children and parents, companions and

friends. This book offers us a healthy way

to love.

Dr. Piazza believes that love hurts when you

are "caring" in the wrong way.

To discover why, in your case, he will help

you look at each of your lovc relationships

from three fresh perspectives--what he calls

the love pyramid. Its three elements are:

(1) the survival plan (your personal strategy

for facing the rigors, pitfalls and challenges

of life),. (2) the love debt (the wrongs you feel

your life must redress, based on your percep-

tion of inequalities in your parents" relation-

ship); and, (3) the romantic ideal (your

expectations of romantic love, based largely

on fantasy).

First Dr. Piazza helps you study your love

pyramid, then he offers a way to change the

elements that aren t working. Dr. Piazza s

treatment involves the most ancicnt of all

human loves--nurturing, the simple act of

compassion and empathy, the reaching-out to

others without pity or self-sacrifice. It is nur-

turing, you ll learn, that will help you rise

above your hurting relationship, "see" it in a

new way, and alleviate thc pain, once and for

all. That s what makes this book very different

from most recent guides to contemporary

living.