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The Broadway Books edition

By "Love Coach" Janet O'Neal

A common-sense guide to love, sex and (yikes!) commitment for the new millennium

- Janet Lever, Ph.D. and Pepper Schwartz, Ph.D., writing in Glamour Magazine

JANET O'NEAL has helped thousands of men and women find lasting love. She was one of the true pioneers in the matchmaking business, having founded the video dating service Friend Connection in the early 1980s. Janet developed Friend Connection into the number-one independent dating service in the U.S., and even after she sold the company she continued with one-on-one "coaching" to help men and women build successful relationships. Now she has distilled her years of real-world experience into her acclaimed new book, Cracking the Love Code. This book, originally edited and developed by Schmidt Kaye and Company, was so successful in a self-published edition that it was picked up by Broadway Books, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell. Janet and her ace "literary support team" are now hard at work on new book projects.

More about Cracking the Love Code

First off, in Love Code territory there are only six principles to remember -- not 35 "rules," not 12 "steps," just six principles. And to make them simple to recall, Janet gave all the principles a name that begins with the letter "C."

Mark our words, though: "simple" in no way means "simplistic." There are no pat answers in this book -- just good, honest, common-sense advice for finding and keeping real love with the right person. This is advice that has worked for thousands, and it can work for you, too, even if you've never had a successful relationship.

A healthy relationship, believes Love Coach Janet O'Neal, is based on these six principles:

 Conceiving: You can't get what you want until you know what you want! This chapter shows you how to form a clear and complete "wish list" of the characteristics, interests, and attitudes you desire in a mate. Includes visualization techniques that will easily and naturally lead you to the right partner.

 Contentment: Learn how to truly satisfy your partner while ensuring your own needs are met. This chapter includes an eye-opening list of the top seven emotional needs of a man (number-one need: to feel adequate and okay just the way he is) - and the seven different needs of a woman (her first need is emotional security). If these basics are not met for both of you, the relationship cannot be successful.

 Connecting: Discover how to truly connect with another person in order to set the groundwork for a real relationship (as opposed to a flirtation or a one-night stand). Included are 11 secrets for establishing genuine rapport with a person of the opposite sex, plus a dating survival guide. You'll want to apply many of the techniques in this chapter to all of your relationships -- personal and business.

 Chemistry: In a word, SEX. This chapter offers a candid guide to men's and women's top sexual turn-ons and turn-offs, plus a relentlessly honest look at safe-sex issues. Included are ten questions to ask yourself -- and answer honestly -- before you get naked. Janet can't even count the times she's heard people say, "Boy, I wish I (or my partner(s)) had had this chapter YEARS ago."

 Conviction: Ah, the bewildering but wonderful process of becoming convinced that this person is really "the one." This chapter includes detailed and tested guidelines for compatibility, plus tips on how to find the weak points in a relationship -- and how to fix them. There's even a section on how to handle conflicts, for, as the Love Coach reminds us, "You haven't been truly intimate with someone until the two of you have had a real fight."

 Commitment: That scary "C": deciding whether or not to make a lifelong commitment to your partner. In this chapter you'll find out about the 11 fears that keep people from taking this big step -- and how to handle them. If you want to avoid making a pledge to the wrong person -- or, equally as bad, letting the right person get away -- you need to read this.

Whether you're already in a committed relationship and just want to make it better, or you're still looking for your perfect match, Cracking the Love Code charts the course for smooth sailing through the C's of love.

Cracking the Love Code: Six Proven Principles to Find and Keep Real Love With the Right Person

by Janet O'Neal

Published by Broadway Books, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell
Available at major bookstores, or through Amazon.com
Hardcover, 240 pp., $22.00 • ISBN 0767901673

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