The roles we play
Through counseling-session excerpts, the book names the personas and moves people adopt in relationship, without making those patterns wrong.
Relationship book
Love Games
The Hidden Rules of Relationship
A practical manual for seeing the roles, games, and agreements that shape romantic partnership.
- Author
- Thomas M. Jones
- Format
- Book
- Status
- Available now
The Hidden Rules of Relationship
What it opens
The patterns in love become workable when they can be seen.
Love Games follows romance from first attraction to recurring conflict, showing how partners move into roles such as the Caretaker and the Free Spirit. Thomas M. Jones treats those positions as workable strategies, not character flaws, and gives readers exercises for identifying what is really being sought in love.
Conflict as information
Disconnects do not arrive in a vacuum. They reveal what partners are trying to protect, get, avoid, or repair.
A new agreement
Instead of the old myth of falling in love, Love Games points toward conscious loving: practical partnership built on truth, accuracy, and explicit agreements.
Working notes
01
Identify relationship positions
See the roles that shape attraction, testing, withdrawal, and repair.
02
Understand the game beneath the fight
Look past the surface argument to the need, strategy, or protection underneath it.
03
Practice with chapter exercises
Use the exercises as a structured way to discover what works in love and why.
04
Build conscious loving
Replace inherited romantic myths with agreements based on what each person truly wants and needs.
A clearer conversation about partnership.
For people looking for love, inside a relationship, or trying to understand a repeating pattern, Love Games offers a direct map for more honest participation.