Some of the later passages read like poetry to me and overall, it's a beautiful and inspiring book. Love, love, love. Unconditional, healthy and good love for all. Women and men. We can all do wrong, we can all do right. Many women, especially those who are in right after breakup or rejection phase may find this as a comforting book. But, the book doesn't really convey the truth "He's just not that into you". It sugarcoats the situation to make the woman feel she deserves better, which also means sour grapes in certain scenarios. Reflections helps us to understand the problem that has not gone away: the dilemma of the intellectual (the writer, the artist) in politics.

Nationalist, patriotic, conservative, and spiritually autobiographical . . . it is a strange, enormously, clever (also foolish) and (in an alarming sense) fascinating piece, of sustained, often anguished and sometimes contorted eloquence. At long last, a magnificent full translation of Mann's untimely masterpiece . . . an obviously complex and profound work.The author of this book must have a wonderful, loving heart and soul and anyone, man or woman, should aspire to be just as insightful, loving, soulful, and intuitive to their significant other. Yes, a relationship is a full-time job. You can’t just leave it to a person and hope for the best. It is a 50/50 thing. Both parties have to play their part till forever as they usually do at the beginning. This is the only way to make it work. I guess the quotes are supposed to be made up by the author himself. I wish they were more original. I wish they would teach something more than the stuff you read on inspo insta accounts.

Then again I know awesome examples for non fictional/self-help books on topics that don‘t affect me at all, I love beyond words. I appreciate the few chapters you dedicated to men, Mr Soul, but I can‘t befriend the number of times you stated the women as the victims and the men as the wrong doers in here.Her poetry (I'm not sure it's poetry) is just too plain (I don't want to use a harsh word). She rhymes 'you' with 'you', Even William Herondale's comic poetry in Cassandra Clare's The Infernal Devices is better (which according to Cassandra is not a top notched one but I found it amusing and perfect) However, for married couples, termination of marriage puts too much at stake and a different approach is needed to save whatever is left. Not to judge, but I have a sense that the author is unmarried and had gone through a bad relationship in the past. The author encourages more of termination of relationship rather than to talk, discuss and sort things out between the 2 lovers. Now I know I'm not the target audience ( strong, confident, overly sensitive and fragile woman :D :P ) for this book but I'd still leave a review just because I'm so tired of stupid people making all the men look bad without any strong arguments... When are people going to realize that this is exactly the kind of shit that promotes the "blame culture". The shit that promotes you standing in front of the mirror and saying "I am beautiful, I am strong" just so you could hide the fact that you won't accept a fact.. No beautiful person ever goes in front of the mirror and says that crap.. They just know they are..