Kindness and Patience in Healing Relationships

The approach of being kind and loving towards oneself for healing instead of self-criticism is a profound shift in self-help literature. The book aims to encourage kindness, patience, and a reconceptualization of long-term sexual relationships, focusing on pleasure over desire. It challenges the norm that it is not dysfunctional to not want sex one does not like. The book's message of kindness and patience may be perceived as challenging because it urges people to redefine their understanding of relationships.