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Cupidity : 50 stupid things people do for love and how to avoid them
—DiMarco, Hayley.
2010

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ISBN: 9781414324678

Description: xii, 245 pages ; 21 cm

Contents:

  • What is cupidity?
  • Emotional acts of cupidity
  • Believing love is a feeling
  • Believing romance equals love
  • Standing on your rights
  • Misunderstanding forgiveness (or refusing to get over it)
  • Letting the other person's emotions control you
  • Mental (gender-specific) acts of cupidity
  • Thinking that telling him everything is a good idea
  • Trying to fix things
  • Taking charge
  • Failing to provide
  • Fearing the silence
  • Refusing to grow up
  • Failing to notice him
  • Neglecting romance
  • Loving who you want him to become instead of who he is
  • Loving who she was instead of who she is
  • Not accepting his skills
  • Walking on eggshells
  • Refusing to receive protection or correction
  • Physical acts of cupidity
  • Using sex to get love
  • Using romance to get sex
  • Believing sex will keep them
  • Withholding sex to get romance
  • Becoming too comfortable with each other
  • Shacking up
  • Enabling abuse
  • Having friends with benefits
  • Blending finances before marriage
  • Giving up food to get love
  • Loving her for her body only
  • Dressing to get attention
  • Looking at porn
  • Social acts of cupidity
  • Having friends of the opposite sex
  • Giving too much information
  • Refusing to move forward emotionally
  • Letting technology define your relationship
  • Pleasing the other person at all costs
  • Disrespecting your significant other in public
  • Refusing to apologize
  • Not knowing how to break up
  • Making a big deal out of everything
  • Having unrealistic expectations
  • Wishing your significant other were your gender
  • Spiritual acts of cupidity
  • Loving someone with a different faith
  • Expecting another person to bring you hope, joy, or peace
  • Playing God
  • Obsessing over yourself
  • Obsessing over them
  • Rehearsing the other person's faults in your mind
  • Sharing sins
  • Not knowing what true love is.

LCCN: 2009027422

Control Number: 820666

Publisher: Carol Stream, Ill. : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. ; Orange, CA : Published in association with the literary agency of Yates & Yates, 2010.
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