The Relationship Guide to Guides

By Darrell Scott

The guide to relationship guides is the first in the soon to come guide to guides line. This particular manual was created in an effort to help make sense of relationship guides that offer generic approaches that are meant to encompass all relationships. Most people's relationship issues can't be resolved in any specific terms but need to be addressed in a manner that is unique to their set of circumstances. The relationship guide to guides is a humorous approach to addressing real issues and offers an alternative approach to reshaping the way we approach our relationships with people.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Darrell Scott
• Release date: May 9, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458023155

Book preview

VOLUME

One

FROM THE GUIDE TO GUIDES COLLECTION

A Guide to Relationship Guides

by Darrell A. Scott

Copyright © 2011 Darrell A. Scott

Smashwords Edition

License Statement

This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1-Now There Is An Instruction Manual

Grooming

Love Games

Deal or No Deal

Breaking the Routine

The Learning Curve

Resource Guide

Chapter 2-It’s Like The School Science Fair All Over Again

Experimentation

Control Group

Experimental Group

Chapter 3-Forget Everything You Know Or Think You Know

What you don’t know won’t hurt you

Growing Pains

Chapter 4-Misdirection

Situational Awareness

You got what they need like Biz Markie

How to always win an argument by losing it

The Emotional Tease

Chapter 5-Embrace the Obvious

Women Lie

Men Lie

Chapter 6-It’s A Little Crazy If You Think About It

Organized Chaos

The Ex Factor

Chapter 7-A Formidable Opponent

The Truth About Chemistry

Keep your lovers close and your enemies closer

Chapter 8-Financing Your Relationship

Cashing Out

Authors Notes

CHAPTER 1

Now There Is An Instruction Manual

Most guides will begin by claiming relationships don’t come with instruction manuals. Well now they do…

The first thing that should be taken into account before reading this guide is that I don’t care if you’re talking with Dr. Phil or the guy at the supermarket no one has a better understanding of the dynamics of your relationship than you. This guide will help you interpret all the other relationship guides out there by giving it to you straight so maybe you can develop a means of applying some of this stuff to your life. I am by no means claiming to be a relationship guru or expert and in fact have had trouble maintaining my own relationships at times. However, I believe this is what makes my guide valuable. Most guides give you a generic guideline to follow with no exact information about how to apply it to your specific circumstances. I on the other hand am not going to outline what you should do, but what you should avoid doing. If you put it into context, that significantly increases the credibility of this guide. Typically, if someone attempts to tell you what you should do, more often than not they should be ignored, however if they approach you with a personal experience about what not to do, pay attention.

Luckily for you this guide will not provide you with useless schematics or cheesy mantras. Instead it will attempt to provide you with insight that may or may not improve the quality of your interactions with friends, loved ones or even strangers. The problem with people is everybody is different, if everyone was exactly the same that would make our lives a lot easier. I could write some detailed one-size fits all instruction booklet that let you set up your relationship without any leftover pieces and you would live happily ever after. However, the truth of the matter is there are NO rules when it comes to how you approach your relationships. You may yield better results by implementing things you pick up here or elsewhere, but in reality no one can teach you how to form long lasting healthy relationships with people.

I think part of the joy of forming new relationships and nurturing current ones is the nauseous unpredictability of it all. We can’t get it down to a science because relationships are elusive creatures. What would be the fun in catching a unicorn or the lochness monster, then how would we spend our time? Although it is true you can take steps that can help prevent destroying your relationships with others, you will never reach an auto-pilot moment in your life when it comes to maintaining them. In fact, if you haven’t noticed, what is the first thing people ask you when you lose touch with them for a few days? Why haven’t you called me? No matter how bad you would like to say maybe it’s because after I get off the phone with you I’m clinically depressed or "because I don’t