Author : Ruth L. Schwartz
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780996558822
If you're a single lesbian who wants deeply fulfilling lasting love, this book was written for you. You'll learn exactly why and how the conscious approach to dating and love will make all the difference for you, and also get a detailed roadmap to help you find and create the relationship you most want.
Author : Lauren D. Costine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1442248092
Everyone makes mistakes in relationships at one time or another. Sometimes they learn from those mistakes. Other times, they return to those behaviors and cycle through failed relationship after failed relationship. Sometimes those behaviors become an addiction to love that may leave a person feeling unhappy, unfulfilled, lonely, or worse. Lesbian Love Addiction: Understanding the Urge to Merge and How to Heal When Things go Wrong makes visible the elements of love addiction that many lesbians suffer from. Love addiction for lesbians comes in many forms. Some struggle by sexually acting out and others are serial relationship junkies, jumping from one relationship into the next. Some are addicted to the high of falling in love and once that wears off don’t know how to handle the day-to-day realities of a committed relationship. Some are even addicted to fantasy and intrigue, while others are love avoidants and sexual anorexics. Love avoidants may be able to get into a relationship but once they are fully committed, struggle with feeling smothered. Others may avoid intimate or sexual relationships all together, becoming sexually anorexic. Some may even vacillate between all of these. The underlying component and common denominator in all of these scenarios is the “Urge to Merge.” Lesbian Love Addiction is designed to help ameliorate at least part of this problem. Lauren D. Costine offers insight for lesbians, bisexual women in relationships with women, queer women, and more specifically, any woman who loves women, as well as their family and friends, and health care professionals, into the psychology of lesbian love addiction. It will give those who struggle with and suffer from love addiction ways to understand, cope, and heal from this debilitating addiction. It will give those who work with this population new tools to use to do this more effectively. Mostly, it will help lesbians understand their relationship failures and how to heal from problems associated with them, so they may grow and cultivate happier, more fulfilling connections in the future.
Author : David Steele
Publisher : Relationship Coaching Institute
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 32,72 MB
Release : 2007-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0975500570
We want to be happy in relationships, but don't know how. The old way of dating and mating simply doesn't work anymore. The rules have changed and most of us don't know what the new rules are. In searching for love, most singles are using trial and error, flying by the seat of their pants, or following bad advice. Conscious Dating does not offer manipulative or deceptive practices that compromise who you are, in fact it helps singles celebrate who they are and see being single as an opportunity and not a disease. This is not just another dating book filled with tired ideas about how to get a man or woman. Conscious Dating provides relationship information and strategies proven and tested with thousands of singles worldwide from a pioneering leader in the field of relationships.
Author : Jesika Babylon
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 2017-10-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781977674227
Ever wanted to ask someone out on a date? Ever wanted someone to provide some motivation for doing it? Inside you'll find tips and tricks for how to survive being a single women-loving woman whether you ID as queer, gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, or anything else on the spectrum of sexuality. Heck some hetero people might find the information funny and useful!
Author : Robin McCoy
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0595162274
Join thirty-eight smart, funny, sexy women over forty as they take you on their exuberant journeys of awakening lesbianism. What they have to say will make you laugh, will make you cry, and most certainly will make you reach for your bedmate.
Author : Beverly Burch
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Homosexuality
ISBN : 9780252018015
On Intimate Terms looks at the internal logic of lesbian relationships, arguing that they are not patterned after heterosexual ones but rely on the interplay of psychosexual differences between women. The book suggests that everyone seeks psychic complementarity with an Other in intimate relationships as a way of supporting personal growth and development. A complementary partner is one who is different in some individually meaningful way, not necessarily in terms of gender. Drawing upon interviews with individuals and lesbian couples, literature on lesbian psychology, and contemporary psychoanalytic theory, Beverly Burch observes a special attraction between primary lesbians - women who have been attracted to other women from an early age - and lesbians who formerly were heterosexual. This difference may be a source of tension for lovers, but it also attracts and bonds them in conscious and unconscious ways. The intimacy between lesbian partners permits interpersonal exchanges that foster the continuing development of each, according to Burch. This development can occur in three areas, with the significance of each varying from couple to couple. It can be a source of both conscious and unconscious psychosexual exchanges, a way in which each partner can experience "the road not taken" through her relationship with the other. The partners' different histories can reflect different ways of negotiating difference itself, a pivotal theme in the development of adult women. And gender role identities related to different developmental experiences can be played with, expanding the experience of being female in a way that can challenge gender categories.
Author : Glenda Corwin
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1580053033
A guide for lesbian couples to improve their levels of intimacy, providing exercises and anecdotes, covering common issues women in same-sex couples have, and discussing the intricacies of female desire.
Author : Alain Torres
Publisher : Blisslife Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 2016-05-11
Category :
ISBN : 9780997739206
Conscious Love Relationships On FIRE! Explore New Paradigms of Love in this Fresh, New Book with 11 Love Experts who Reveal Their Secrets to Conscious Love! What if the love that didn't work for you was actually just the training ground for the conscious love you were really meant to have in your life? What if the heavy weight of a relationship that just isn't working could be lifted off your shoulders forever? What if the cure to depression was as simple as passionate love-making? What if the way to connection was through conflict? What if food, money and sex were all connected in unexpected ways? How would your life change if your dried-up old, non-existent sex life was suddenly wild, wet and rejuvenated again? What if the secret to the type of conscious relationship you've been waiting for all these years lay in the pages of this book ... Wouldn't you want to find out? The system and paradigms around Intimate Relationships are changing. We are approaching a time in our history where massive changes in consciousness are challenging our visions of what is possible in relationships. Men and Women are unsatisfied with themselves, with each other and with what they create together, and often, desperately unhappy as well. It is time for new paradigm thinking, and these soul-based experts in conscious relationships are leading the conversation. Get this paradigm shifting book and Get Ready to Open your heart, Lovingly Transform Conflict, Create a Sensual Connection with your Partner, Enjoy Sacred Sex and even Become a Power Couple! Here's just a sampling of our topics and experts; "Power Couples: Successful or Entrepreneurial? Learn the Secrets to Having It All - Work, Play, and Love" - Alain Torres "The Birth of the Sensual Foodist and the Kitchen Portal to Love" - Lana Baumgartner "Creating Connection through Conscious Conflict" - Deborah Morehead "50 Shades of Conscious Sexuality: The Cosmic Dance of Sex, Love, and Awakening." - Christopher Menne "The Power of Authentic Relating"- Lucia Nicola Evans "Moving on from Love that didn't Work Out" - Kristina Shumilova "In this Dance, Dance of Love"-Deborah Nielsen "Love, Success, and Philanthropy...You Can Have It All !!!"-Joni Young "How to Open Your Heart to True Love"- Sky Blossoms "The Quest for Conscious Love: A Lesbian Perspective" - Christine Dunn "Alchemy of Love: Find the Key to keeping your Bank Account Flowing, Your Body Glowing & Your Business Growing" - Dr. Elena Estanol "Conscious Love: Enlightened Relationships and Soulful Sex. http: //consciousloverelationshipsbook.com/
Author : Jill Gutowitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1982158506
A "collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, relationships, pop culture, the Internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original new voices today. Jill Gutowitz's life--for better and worse--has always been on a collision course with pop culture, [including] ... the pivotal day when Orange Is the New Black hit the airwaves and broke down the door to Jill's own sexuality. In these honest examinations of identity, desire, and self-worth, Jill explores perhaps the most monumental cultural shift of our lifetimes: the mainstreaming of lesbian culture"--
Author : Amber Ault Ph. D.
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 13,81 MB
Release : 2013-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780982605318
Is your relationship "always about her?" Does it seem condemned to an endless break-up/ make up cycle? Do your friends think your girlfriend is bad news? If you are stuck in a confusing, exhausting, crazy-making relationship and looking for a way to make sense of your girlfriend's self-centered, erratic, or volatile behavior, you need The Wise Lesbian Guide to Getting Free from Crazy-Making Relationships and Getting On With Your Life. In one small volume, Amber Ault, Ph.D., MSW spells out how three "personality disorders" (Narcissistic, Anti-social, Borderline) account for much of the toxic "come here/go away" "I love you/I hate you" and "it's all about me" drama that keeps good women in relationships that are great every once in awhile but wretchedly crazy-making most of the time. While other books explore the rise of narcissism, surviving the abuse of psychopaths, and responding to people who have borderline personality disorder in general, this book takes a lesbian-specific look at the devastation these personality disorders can cause in relationships and the special challenges facing women in same-sex partnerships with personality-disordered women. In The Wise Lesbian Guide to Getting Free from Crazy-Making Relationships and Getting on With Your Life, Dr. Ault, a clinical sociologist and psychotherapist, draws from clinical literature and experience, expertise in LGBT culture, and a series of interviews with lesbian and queer women who have survived relationships with toxic partners to help you determine if the trouble you are experiencing in your relationship is rooted in a partner's personality disorder. She reviews common toxic relationship dynamics, the costs of staying with personality disordered partners, common personality disorder patterns, and why you might have been vulnerable to getting involved with a personality disordered woman. Perhaps most importantly, she provides specific skills you need to use if you are preparing to exit a toxic relationship, and detailed strategies for recovery, once you are free. Every person deserves to be in a happy, joyful, supportive relationship. As we move into an era in which same-sex partners have access to legal marriage, it is perhaps more crucial than ever that we clarify our expectations for same-sex relationships and become skilled at choosing partners with the capacity to fully participate in mutually respectful, reciprocally supportive, life-enhancing relationships. You deserve to be in a relationship that promotes your happiness, health, and peacefulness. If your current relationship undermines your ease, well-being, and productivity, this book can help you get clearer about what is not working and how to take action so that you can open yourself to the possibility of having the relationship happiness you deserve.
