A Fine Romance by Judith Sills - Book Report/Review Example

Dr. Sills wrote this book in 1987, and its complete title is A Fine Romance: The Passage of Courtship from Meeting to Marriage. In it, she has used all her hard-earned 16 years of experience, and its title is a quintessence of its contents. In other words, A Fine Romance explains how becoming a couple is a matter of gradual unfolding of events in a succession of some predictable and some unpredictable stages and offers a clear and useful map to this process. Best of all, Dr. Sills has clearly and satisfyingly defined the meaning of love and relationships, but most importantly (for the readers); she also identifies the bottlenecks any relationship can face.

She explains when a couple needs space and time to make sense of the scenario. She identifies, what she adequately calls the 'stuck points' in a path leading towards a successful relationship; the common and expected as well as some of the unexpected happenings that can put even thriving couples in a morass. That is exactly what makes it such a compelling must-read for anyone contemplating to find true love - it explains all the things they cannot understand along the way. She explains all the times when a call is misunderstood, or something meant to be for simple conversation misconstrued as something serious, and thus leading to a mix-up.

Thus its readers get a clearer understanding of all the choices they would otherwise have been stumped by; a clearer perspective of what to do and what not to do when pursuing a relationship. Dr. Sills' writing style is pure perfection - a mixture of common sense and reassurance. Her insights are impressively eerie. It's like she was with you all the time; in the bedroom, in the car, the restaurant. She is with you when you are agonizing over something your partner said or did. If you're a woman, Dr.

Sills knows what you did wrong when you stalked him after he didn't call you. She knows why your sweet little voicemail message was a put-off. If you're a man, Dr. Sills knows exactly what went wrong when she was trying to have a heart to heart conversation with you, but all you did was snap at her for interrupting your football game. Apart from this, the five-stage process she has mapped for a successful relationship is easy to relate to. For example, many readers were able to relate to the 'Switch' a process of changing.