{"product_id":"how-we-miss-each-other-sarah-swenson-9798995262718","title":"How We Miss Each Other: Meaning, Misunderstanding, and the Search for Connnection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow We Miss Each Other\u003c\/i\u003e examines how two people can care deeply about each other and still repeatedly misread what is happening between them. Many relational conflicts are treated as failures of communication or signs that love is missing. Yet often the deeper problem lies elsewhere, in the way human beings interpret words, tone, timing, silence, and emotional response before they are fully aware they are doing so.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing from clinical work with couples and from philosophical reflection on perception and meaning, Sarah Swenson explores how misunderstanding takes shape inside intimate relationships. She shows how each person may experience their own perception as simple reality while remaining confused by the other's reaction. In these moments, attempts to clarify, defend, or repair can intensify the rupture rather than resolve it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is not only about conflict. It is about the structure of human understanding itself: how meaning forms between people, how certainty hardens too quickly, and why goodwill alone is often not enough to restore connection once two realities have taken hold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClear, thoughtful, and deeply humane, \u003ci\u003eHow We Miss Each Other\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new way of understanding relational impasse, one that is relevant to couples of all kinds and especially illuminating where differences in perception, communication, or emotional processing are pronounced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Swenson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798995262718\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Swenson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d","brand":"Sarah Swenson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997961957631,"sku":"9798995262718","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-we-miss-each-other-sarah-swenson-9798995262718","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}