Do It Like an Animal: Relationship Advice from Horses

She hits 55 miles per hour in a dead sprint. She reads your mood before you open your mouth. She forgives in under 5 minutes. She remembers where water was a decade ago. And therapists use her to treat combat veterans because she detects emotions humans can't fake.

In Do It Like an Animal: Relationship Advice from Horses, Duktor Anamel Magnis Tsom - your otterly qualified Advisor of Wild & Domesticated Affection - decodes 1,200 pounds of herd-tested wisdom into strategies for building connections that actually last.

Inside you'll discover:

• Why horses spend 2 hours a day grooming each other - and what daily touch does for trust
• How therapists use horses to treat PTSD because they read your emotions before you speak
• Why the leader of every horse herd is a female who never forgets - and what competence-based leadership does for partnerships
• How a horse hits 55 MPH and always comes back - and why freedom strengthens bonds instead of breaking them
• Why a horse will only lie down if another horse stands guard - and what shared protection does for intimacy
• How horses play-fight every day and nobody holds a grudge - and why couples who play together stay together
• Why Secretariat's 22-pound heart won by 31 lengths - and what endurance really means in year seven of a marriage
• How a horse decides if it trusts you in 7 seconds - and why small promises kept precisely matter more than grand gestures

Whether single, dating, or partnered - if a 1,200-pound animal can forgive in 5 minutes, you can probably stop stonewalling after 3 days.

Part of the Do It Like an Animal series.