On the Way to the Wedding, Linda Schierse Leonard

On the Way to the Wedding, transforming the love relationship, Linda Schierse Leonard

In On the Way to the Wedding, Linda Leonard points the way to overcoming the inner obstacles that can prevent us from forming a meaningful love relationship that endures. Using her own experiences and those of her clients, she writes with understanding about creating an inner marriage of souls. She refers to a wide variety of familiar tales about love and marriage - from the myth of Beauty and the Beast to Wim Wenders' film Paris, Texas to Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro - to illustrate the psychological barriers that men and women need to overcome to form committed relationships.

By identifying the various difficulties that block the way to the wedding — like the Ghostly Lover, an idealized love object who is unattainable, or the Demon Lover, an irresistibly attractive seducer who possesses and finally imprisons the suitor - Leonard offers ways to break self-destructive patterns and to confront the feelings of jealousy, guilt, and self-pity that so often stand in the way of wholehearted commitment to relationship.

Leading the reader on a journey deep into the soul of love and creativity, Leonard shows that the work of love is the work of transformation within. She uses the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke to illumine the meanings of the traditional rituals of putting on the veil, taking the vow, and exchanging rings.

Details

• Hardcover with dust-jacket (good)
• First printing 
• ISBN: 0394552504
• Condition: Very Good 
  
• Publisher: Shambhala