Relationships require tending-and who better to turn to in those moments of need than Melody Beattie? Melding essays and meditations, this book offers the best-selling author's reflections on the joys and challenges that relationships present every day. Distilling her compassionate insights on how best to nurture spiritual and emotional health, Beattie touches on questions of honesty and surrender, defensiveness and drama addiction, healthy communication and unhealthy tendencies. Her characteristically direct, unsentimental words give voice to the thoughts and feelings common to men and women in recovery-and point the way to healing and hope by creating opportunities for reflection, affirmation, and change.