Download or read book You Complete Me and Other Myths That Destroy Happily Ever After written by Victoria Fleming Ph.D. and published by North Shore Wellness Services. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author shares her experience as a counselor working with couples in marriage counseling to illustrate the falsehoods in common marriage myths, along with her own perspectives on the marriage relationship and advice on working through various relationship issues.
Download or read book Holistic Beauty from the Inside Out written by Julie Gabriel and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated author of The Green Beauty Guide Julie Gabriel presents a comprehensive yet simple book that brings all four corners of the natural beauty paradigm together: natural skincare, holistic nutrition, stress-relief, and healthy lifestyle. A holistic nutritionist, Gabriel teaches her reader how to 'eat yourself beautiful' using building blocks from a wholesome diet, and as a long-time beauty writer and editor, reveals why beauty-boosting changes to our everyday lifestyles are essential in helping us to discover the allure we are looking for. Holisitic Beauty from the Inside Out claims that true beauty radiates from inner physical and emotional harmony. Our body is equipped with a full set of tools to maintain and restore our intrinsic assets, and has enormous healing powers to rejuvenate our skin, hair, and nails. The book includes handy and straightforward lists of what products to avoid, what foods to eat, and natural recipes to use for skincare.
Download or read book Why You re Not Married Yet written by Tracy McMillan and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Very wise . . . Give this book to every single girlfriend [you] have.”—Marie Claire If you’re looking to get married and you’re not, there’s most likely a very good reason: you. Hey, you’re certainly not a bad person! You just haven’t yet become the woman you need to be in order to have the partnership you want. That’s where this book comes in. Based on her wildly popular Huffington Post article, Tracy McMillan’s Why You’re Not Married . . . Yet dishes out no-holds-barred practical wisdom for women hoping to head down the aisle. And this new edition features even more candid advice and sisterly insight. McMillan points out the behaviors that might be in your blind spot and shows you how to adjust them to get the relationship you deserve. Do any of these chapter headings sound familiar? • You’re a Bitch: How defensiveness can hide behind a tough exterior, and why being nice is never a sign of weakness. • You’re a Liar: How to stop lying to men—and get honest with yourself—about the kind of relationship you really want. • You’re Selfish: The big secret about marriage: It’s about giving something, not getting it. A funny, insightful guide, Why You’re Not Married . . . Yet will change your life and the way you think about relationships, and it may very well lead you down the aisle. “Equal parts BFF, boot-camp instructor, and relationship guru, Tracy McMillan will change the way you think about yourself and your relationships. This book is for every woman out there who wants to have a great marriage.”—Ricki Lake
Download or read book The Truth About Happily Ever After written by Karole Cozzo and published by Swoon Reads. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theme park princess must put her life back together after her happily ever after falls apart in this contemporary YA romance from the author of How to Keep Rolling After a Fall.
Download or read book Eternal Faith Book 4 written by Chrissy Peebles and published by Dark Shadows Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-23 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Larker is dying. And there’s nothing modern medicine or science can do to help her predicament. Sarah knows Victor has been desperately searching for a cure without success. Without a cure, she will never be able to carry her precious baby to full term. She is desperate to give her son a chance at life, but every day is a struggle to live. Victor was forced to leave the only world he ever knew and loved to be with Sarah in California so they could raise their son together. They have agreed to stay until Alexander turns eighteen so he won’t be influenced by Ethano, who wants him for his own selfish and destructive gain. Victor is at a disadvantage in a world he knows nothing about. He has no allies, friends, or connections like he did back in his kingdom. But losing his kingdom and trying to fit in this culture is more difficult than he ever imagined. As Sarah declines, Victor fears the worst. His only hope is to make an allegiance with the enemy. Both are scared of the consequences, but they are left with little choice. Sarah will do anything to stay alive for her husband and unborn child. As they try to adjust to life in California, their lives come crashing down all around them. When Sarah is kidnapped by the Blue-ringed Immortals and learns the sinister plans in store for her, she is mortified and will fight with her very last breath.
Download or read book Between the World and Me written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by One World. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
Download or read book The Silent Patient written by Alex Michaelides and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "An unforgettable—and Hollywood-bound—new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy." —Entertainment Weekly The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....
Download or read book All the Light We Cannot See written by Anthony Doerr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Download or read book Divorce Busting written by Michele Weiner Davis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step approach to making your marriage loving again.
Download or read book Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land Complete written by Charles M. Skinner and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INDEX PREFACE THE HUDSON AND ITS HILLS RIP VAN WINKLE CATSKILL GNOMES THE CATSKILL WITCH THE REVENGE OF SHANDAKEN CONDEMNED TO THE NOOSE BIG INDIAN THE BAKER'S DOZEN THE DEVIL'S DANCE-CHAMBER. THE CULPRIT FAY POKEPSIE DUNDERBERG ANTHONY'S NOSE MOODUA CREEK A TRAPPER'S GHASTLY VENGEANCE THE VANDERDECKEN OF TAPPAN ZEE THE GALLOPING HESSIAN STORM SHIP OF THE HUDSON WHY SPUYTEN DUYVIL IS SO NAMED THE RAMAPO SALAMANDER CHIEF CROTON THE RETREAT FROM MAHOPAC NIAGARA THE DEFORMED OF ZOAR HORSEHEADS KAYUTA AND WANETA THE DROP STAR THE PROPHET OF PALMYRA A VILLAIN'S CREMATION THE MONSTER MOSQUITOE THE GREEN PICTURE THE NUNS OF CARTHAGE THE SKULL IN THE WALL THE HAUNTED MILL OLD INDIAN FACE THE DIVISION OF THE SARANACS AN EVENT IN INDIAN PARK THE INDIAN PLUME BIRTH OF THE WATER-LILY ROGERS'S SLIDE THE FALLS AT COHOES FRANCIS WOOLCOTT'S NIGHT-RIDERS POLLY'S LOVER CROSBY, THE PATRIOT SPY THE LOST GRAVE OF PAINE THE RISING OF GOUVERNEUR MORRIS THE ISLE OF MANHATTOES AND NEARBY DOLPH HEYLIGER THE KNELL AT THE WEDDING ROISTERING DIRCK VAN DARA THE PARTY FROM GIBBET ISLAND MISS BRITTON'S POKER THE DEVIL'S STEPPING-STONES THE SPRINGS OF BLOOD AND WATER THE CRUMBLING SILVER THE CORTELYOU ELOPEMENT VAN WEMPEL'S GOOSE THE WEARY WATCHER THE RIVAL FIDDLERS WYANDANK MARK OF THE SPIRIT HAND THE FIRST LIBERAL CHURCH ON AND NEAR THE DELAWARE THE PHANTOM DRAGOON DELAWARE WATER GAP THE PHANTOM DRUMMER THE MISSING SOLDIER OF VALLEY FORGE THE LAST SHOT AT GERMANTOWN A BLOW IN THE DARK THE TORY'S CONVERSION LORD PERCY'S DREAM SAVED BY THE BIBLE PARRICIDE OF THE WISSAHICKON THE BLACKSMITH AT BRANDYWINE FATHER AND SON THE ENVY OF MANITOU THE LAST REVEL IN PRINTZ HALL THE TWO RINGS FLAME SCALPS OF THE CHARTIERS THE CONSECRATION OF WASHINGTON TALES OF PURITAN LAND EVANGALINE THE SNORING OF SWUNKSUS THE LEWISTON HERMIT THE DEAD SHIP OF HARPSWELL THE SCHOOLMASTER HAD NOT REACHED ORRINGTON. JACK WELCH'S DEATH LIGHT THE LADY URSULA FATHER MOODY'S BLACK VEIL THE HOME OF THUNDER THE PARTRIDGE WITCH THE MARRIAGE OF MOUNT KATAHDIN THE MOOSE OF MOUNT KINEO THE OWL TREE A CHESTNUT LOG THE WATCHER ON WHITE ISLAND CHOCORUA PASSACONAWAY'S RIDE TO HEAVEN THE BALL GAME BY THE SACO THE WHITE MOUNTAINS THE VISION ON MOUNT ADAMS THE GREAT CARBUNCLE SKINNER'S CAVE YET THEY CALL IT LOVER'S LEAP SALEM AND OTHER WITCHCRAFT THE GLOUCESTER LEAGUERS SATAN AND HIS BURIAL-PLACE PETER RUGG, THE MISSING MAN THE LOSS OF WEETAMOO THE FATAL FORGET-ME-NOT THE OLD MILL AT SOMERVILLE EDWARD RANDOLPH'S PORTRAIT LADY ELEANORE'S MANTLE HOWE'S MASQUERADE OLD ESTHER DUDLEY THE LOSS OF JACOB HURD THE HOBOMAK BERKSHIRE TORIES THE REVENGE OF JOSIAH BREEZE THE MAY-POLE OF MERRYMOUNT THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER THE GRAY CHAMPION THE FOREST SMITHY WAHCONAH FALLS KNOCKING AT THE TOMB THE WHITE DEER OF ONOTA WIZARD'S GLEN BALANCED ROCK SHONKEEK-MOONKEEK THE SALEM ALCHEMIST ELIZA WHARTON SALE OF THE SOUTHWICKS THE COURTSHIP OF MYLES STANDISH MOTHER CREWE AUNT RACHEL'S CURSE NIX'S MATE THE WILD MAN OF CAPE COD NEWBURY'S OLD ELM SAMUEL SEWALL'S PROPHECY THE SHRIEKING WOMAN AGNES SURRIAGE SKIPPER IRESON'S RIDE HEARTBREAK HILL HARRY MAIN: THE TREASURE AND THE CATS THE WESSAGUSCUS HANGING THE UNKNOWN CHAMPION GOODY COLE GENERAL MOULTON AND THE DEVIL THE SKELETON IN ARMOR MARTHA'S VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET LOVE AND TREASON THE HEADLESS SKELETON OF SWAMPTOWN THE CROW AND CAT OF HOPKINSHILL THE OLD STONE MILL ORIGIN OF A NAME MICAH ROOD APPLES A DINNER AND ITS CONSEQUENCES THE NEW HAVEN STORM SHIP THE WINDAM FROGS THE LAMB OF SACRIFICE MOODUS NOISES HADDAM ENCHANTMENTS BLOCK ISLAND AND THE PALATINE THE BUCCANEER ROBERT LOCKWOOD'S FATE LOVE AND RUM LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF THE SOUTH THE SWIM AT INDIAN HEAD THE MOANING SISTERS A RIDE FOR A BRIDE SPOOKS OF THE HIAWASSEE LAKE OF THE DISMAL SWAMP THE BARGE OF DEFEAT NATURAL BRIDGE THE SILENCE BROKEN SIREN OF THE FRENCH BROAD THE HUNTER OF CALAWASSEE REVENGE OF THE ACCABEE TOCCOA FALLS TWO LIVES FOR ONE A GHOSTLY AVENGER THE WRAITH RINGER OF ATLANTA THE SWALLOWING EARTHQUAKE LAST STAND OF THE BILOXI THE SACRED FIRE OF NACHEZ PASS CHRISTIAN THE UNDER LAND THE CENRAL STATES AND THE GREAT LAKES AN AVERTED PERIL THE OBSTINACY OF SAINT CLAIR THE HUNDREDTH SKULL THE CRIME OF BLACK SWAMP THE HOUSE ACCURSED MICHEL DE COUCY'S TROUBLES WALLEN'S RIDGE THE SKY WALKER OF HURON THE COFFIN OF SNAKES MACKINACK LAKE SUPERIOR WATER GODS THE WITCH OF PICTURED ROCKS THE ORIGIN OF WHITE-FISH THE SPIRIT OF CLOUDY THE SUN FIRE AT SAULT SAINTE MARIE THE SNAKE GOD OF BELLE ISLE WERE-WOLVES OF DETROIT THE ESCAPE OF FRANCOIS NAVARRE THE OLD LODGER THE NAIN ROUGE TWO REVENGES HIAWATHA THE INDIAN MESSIAH THE VISION OF RESCUE DEVIL'S LAKE THE KEUSCA ELOPEMENT PIPESTONE THE VIRGINS' FEAST FALLS OF ST. ANTHONY FLYING SHADOW AND TRACK MAKER SAVED BY A LIGHTNING-STROKE THE KILLING OF CLOUDY SKY PROVIDENCE HOLE THE SCARE CURE TWELFTH NIGHT AT CAHOKIA THE SPELL OF CREVE CIUR LAKE HOW THE CRIME WAS REVEALED BANSHEE OF THE BAD LANDS STANDING ROCK THE SALT WITCH ALONG THE ROCKY RANGE OVER THE DIVIDE THE PHANTOM TRAIN OF MARSHALL PASS THE RIVER OF LOST SOULS RIDERS OF THE DESERT THE DIVISION OF TWO TRIBES BESIEGED BY STARVATION A YELLOWSTONE TRAGEDY THE BROAD HOUSE THE DEATH WALTZ THE FLOOD AT SANTA FE GODDESS OF SALT THE COMING OF THE NAVAJOS THE ARK ON SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS THE PALE FACED LIGHTNING THE WEIRD SENTINEL AT SQUAW PEAK SACRIFICE OF THE TOLTECS TA-VWOTS CONQUERS THE SUN THE COMANCHE RIDER HORNED TOAD AND GIANTS THE SPIDER TOWER THE LOST TRAIL A BATTLE IN THE AIR ON THE PACIFIC COAST THE VOYAGER OF WHULGE TAMANOUS OF TACOMA THE DEVIL AND THE DALLES CASCADES OF THE COLUMBIA THE DEATH OF UMATILLA HUNGER VALLEY THE WRATH OF MANITOU THE SPOOK OF MISERY HILL THE QUEEN OF DEATH VALLEY BRIDAL VEIL FALL THE GOVERNOR'S RIGHT EYE THE PRISONER IN AMERICAN SHAFT AS TO BURIED RICHES KIDD'S TREASURE OTHER BURIED WEALTH STORIED WATERS, CLIFFS AND MOUNTAINS MONSTERS AND SEA-SERPENTS STONE-THROWING DEVILS STORIED SPRINGS LOVERS' LEAPS GOD ON THE MOUNTAINS
Download or read book If He Had Been with Me written by Laura Nowlin and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...
Download or read book Symbols of the Soul written by Marianne Runberg and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 1993-03-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy tales are part of our culture and history. They have been with many of us since we were children. During the last 20 years there has been an increasing interest in psychoanalytically-orientated interpretation of fairy tales, opening them up as a medium for therapy. The authors show that fairy tales can be used in therapy and guidance in a number of ways and on many different levels. They found that using such stories in their daily work proved beneficial for staff-members and patients alike, generating a response of interest, attention and sensitivity, underlining their point that fairy tales have an impact on, and importance for, everyone.
Download or read book Race Monogamy and Other Lies They Told You written by Agustín Fuentes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; and men and women are truly different in behavior, desires, and wiring. In an engaging and wide-ranging narrative, Agustín Fuentes counters these pervasive and pernicious myths about human behavior. Tackling misconceptions about what race, aggression, and sex really mean for humans, Fuentes incorporates an accessible understanding of culture, genetics, and evolution, requiring us to dispose of notions of “nature or nurture.” Presenting scientific evidence from diverse fields—including anthropology, biology, and psychology—Fuentes devises a myth-busting toolkit to dismantle persistent fallacies about the validity of biological races, the innateness of aggression and violence, and the nature of monogamy and differences between the sexes. A final chapter plus an appendix provide a set of take-home points on how readers can myth-bust on their own. Accessible, compelling, and original, this book is a rich and nuanced account of how nature, culture, experience, and choice interact to influence human behavior.
Download or read book The Complete History of Guitar World written by Editors of Guitar World magazine and published by Backbeat Books. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). For 30 years, Guitar World magazine has served as North America's leading publication for rock guitarists and with more than 325 issues under its belt, the world's bestselling guitar magazine is showing no signs of slowing down. In this extraordinary book, the complete history of Guitar World is chronicled from July 1980, when the very first issue, which featured Johnny Winter on its cover, took the guitar-playing community by storm, to issues from 2010 featuring the likes of Jimi Hendrix, John Mayer, Keith Richards, and many other guitar icons. Frank Zappa, Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Kurt Cobain, Jimmy Page, and Eric Clapton are just some of the artists who have sat down with Guitar World over the years: the full transcripts of these legendary, revealing interviews are here. This lavishly illustrated edition takes you behind the scenes of such monumental events as Nirvana's Unplugged performance, Stevie Ray Vaughan's funeral, and the making of Led Zeppelin IV , and includes Guitar World 's great dual interviews: Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck, Tony Iommi and James Hetfield, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani, and more. Rock music has gone through many changes since 1980 bands have come and gone, musical styles have shifted dramatically, heroes have fallen and through it all, Guitar World has been there, reporting on the events of the day and interviewing the musicians who keep the genre alive. It's all here, in The Complete History of Guitar World .
Download or read book The State of Affairs written by Esther Perel and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fresh look at infidelity, broadening the focus from the havoc it wreaks within a committed relationship to consider also why people do it, what it means to them, and why breaking up is the expected response to duplicity — but not necessarily the wisest one.” — LA Review of Books From iconic couples’ therapist and bestselling author of Mating in Captivity comes a provocative and controversial look at infidelity with practical, honest, and empathetic advice for how to move beyond it. An affair: it can rob a couple of their relationship, their happiness, their very identity. And yet, this extremely common human experience is so poorly understood. What are we to make of this time-honored taboo—universally forbidden yet universally practiced? Why do people cheat—even those in happy marriages? Why does an affair hurt so much? When we say infidelity, what exactly do we mean? Do our romantic expectations of marriage set us up for betrayal? Is there such a thing as an affair-proof marriage? Is it possible to love more than one person at once? Can an affair ever help a marriage? Perel weaves real-life case stories with incisive psychological and cultural analysis in this fast-paced and compelling book. For the past ten years, Perel has traveled the globe and worked with hundreds of couples who have grappled with infidelity. Betrayal hurts, she writes, but it can be healed. An affair can even be the doorway to a new marriage—with the same person. With the right approach, couples can grow and learn from these tumultuous experiences, together or apart. Affairs, she argues, have a lot to teach us about modern relationships—what we expect, what we think we want, and what we feel entitled to. They offer a unique window into our personal and cultural attitudes about love, lust, and commitment. Through examining illicit love from multiple angles, Perel invites readers into an honest, enlightened, and entertaining exploration of modern marriage in its many variations. Fiercely intelligent, The State of Affairs provides a daring framework for understanding the intricacies of love and desire. As Perel observes, “Love is messy; infidelity more so. But it is also a window, like no other, into the crevices of the human heart.”
Download or read book The Myth of Sisyphus And Other Essays written by Albert Camus and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaffirming the value of personal existence, and the possibility of life lived with dignity and authenticity.
Download or read book Newsweek written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
