I AM SO GLAD YOU ARE READING PASSIONATE MARRIAGE!!!!! Those two passages you typed into your post are some of my favorites too !!!!!!!! i am really excited to hear more about what you think about it. I know what you mean, I could read two pages and feel like I had to put the book down to digest. I seriously feel like it is the deepest truth I've ever read about relationships, and I wish everyone on the BBs would read it too. I feel like DB is good for instructions, but in terms of understanding and transformation, a lot of people talk about it on the BB but it's not so much in the DR book, and I feel like passionate marriage is the most amazing tool for that.
that is SO COOL that you and OD got to meet and go to promS!!!! I wish I could have been there!!!
I know what you mean about difficult friends... I'm not sure what the answer is. Some of my friendships/family relationships are OK because I've focused on finding other points of contact, so the relationship has actually been strengthened even though the friend doesn't "get" my DBing... others I feel I am not sure what to do still, and contemplate letting the friendship go ???? though I'm sure you don't want to do that with your BF? Probably patience is the best route?? Maybe you could say something like, "I understand that you would like me to do something different, but this is the path I am choosing to take right now, and I would appreciate your support instead of your criticism." And then eat a cupcake together???
I am sure many people in your life, as they continue to see your success, will later be grateful that you lived this and shared your journey with them, and that now they have another tool they wouldn't have known about otherwise. Even though now they just want you to "get over it" or whatevah!!!
and sometimes we just have to be top secret db operators and not tell anyone what we're doing
ANYWAY thanks for your thoughts on my thread *I* would want to hear your recorder amazingness any day!!
!!!!!!!! i am really excited to hear more about what you think about it. I know what you mean, I could read two pages and feel like I had to put the book down to digest. I seriously feel like it is the deepest truth I've ever read about relationships, and I wish everyone on the BBs would read it too. I feel like DB is good for instructions, but in terms of understanding and transformation, a lot of people talk about it on the BB but it's not so much in the DR book, and I feel like passionate marriage is the most amazing tool for that. 
I'm not sure what the answer is. Some of my friendships/family relationships are OK because I've focused on finding other points of contact, so the relationship has actually been strengthened even though the friend doesn't "get" my DBing... others I feel I am not sure what to do still, and contemplate letting the friendship go ???? though I'm sure you don't want to do that with your BF? Probably patience is the best route?? Maybe you could say something like, "I understand that you would like me to do something different, but this is the path I am choosing to take right now, and I would appreciate your support instead of your criticism." And then eat a cupcake together???