Download or read book The Smart Girl s Guide to Polyamory written by Dedeker Winston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one likes a know-it-all, but everyone loves a girl with brains and heart. The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory is an intelligent and comprehensive guide to polyamory, open relationships, and other forms of alternative love, offering relationship advice radically different from anything you'll find on the magazine rack. This practical guidebook will help women break free of the mold of traditional monogamy, without the constraints of jealousy, possessiveness, insecurity, and competition. The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory incorporates interviews and real-world advice from women of all ages in nontraditional relationships, as well as exercises for building self-awareness, confidence in communication, and strategies for managing and eliminating jealousy. If you're curious about exploring group sex, opening up your current monogamous relationship, or ready to “come out” as polyamorous, this book covers it all! Whether you're a seasoned graduate, a timid freshman, or somewhere in between, you'll learn how to discover and craft unique relationships that are healthy, happy, sexy, and tailor-made for you. Because when it comes to your love life, being a know-it-all is actually a great thing to be.

Download or read book Managing a Long Distance Relationship written by Joy Deborah Adewuyi and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people repel long-distance love relationships for several reasons, one of which emanates from the popular cliché 'out of sight is out of mind'. The fears of uncertainties and concerns about the low likelihood of success long-distance relationships are further amplified by tales of heartbreaks or unpleasant experiences shared by couples in long-distance relationships. Although it is advisable that couples guide against long-distance separation in their relationship, the demands of life sometimes present situations where temporal geographical separations become inevitable for couples. Hence, there is a need to help couples overcome setbacks and other challenges associated with long distance, and equip them with pragmatic principles and strategies to grow in love and intimacy while going through such phases. Having personally encountered the highs and lows of long-distance relationship, our goal is to help other long-distance relationship couples to 'stay in mind while they are temporarily out of sight'. This book is directed at helping couples in long-distance relationships to successfully navigate the hurdles and challenges peculiar to the journey.Many people think that love is all that matters. We thought so too, but realized along the path that although love is important, love is helpless when it lacks the requisite knowledge. Love without knowledge is helpless.Just like a plant obtains its nourishment for survival and sustenance, relationships too need nourishment. Many relationships, which started with promising hopes and great energy, started declining and withering when long-distance sets in. This is a common case of many great friendships that started off on campus, but gradually collapsed after graduation. Our long-distance relationship (LDR) experience has taught us that a good relationship, either long-distance or short, needs some essential elements, of which understanding is also non-negotiable. I usually tease my wife that our courtship qualifies for a certificate degree in Long-Distance Relationship (LDR). First, it was a four-year long courtship (not the longest out there though), and was long-distance for the most part. As you would discover in the course of this book, about 90% of our courtship period was long-distance. My first proposal to Joy was done over a phone call and a follow-up love letter (email actually), and our traditional wedding was done on Skype because we were on different continents when the time was ripe for the wedding. Despite the ups and downs and the emotional hysteresis in our long-distance relationship, we sailed successfully and anchored our ship at the conjugal bliss border on the fourth year of courtship.

Download or read book The Long Distance Relationship Survival Guide written by Chris Bell and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skyrocketing phone bills. Layovers and missed flights. Countless hours spent pining, worrying, and wondering, Why do we do this to ourselves? Long-distance love can be one challenge afteranother, but as most committed couples will tell you, the rewards well outweigh the stresses. In this sensitive yet sensible guide, long-distance veterans Chris and Kate provide strategies for making the distance seem shorter and outline eight essential skills for relationship success: Communicating effectively Establishing mutual goals and expectations Dealing with issues of trust, fidelity, and independence Having fun in spite of the distance Managing time, schedules, and stress Keeping the relationship real Balancing sex and emotional intimacy Making the transition to same-city living Based on interviews with more than 100 couples and packed with knowledgeable tips and honest advice, THE LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP SURVIVAL GUIDE proves that, with patience and dedication, a loving relationship can not only survive but also thrive across the miles.

Download or read book Superhero of Love written by Bridget Fonger and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Heal a Broken Heart Discover the superhero within your own heart. Every women knows that sometimes, love hurts, and learning how to let go of lost love can seem impossible. You find yourself asking, "How do I live without you?" The good news is that inside each one of us is our very own love superhero. You can find the strength inside yourself to live and love like never before, and Superhero of Love will teach you how. Moving on after heartbreak is much easier when you use your five superpowers. You already have the power to get over your break up─to find happiness again. In Superhero of Love, expert author and writer Bridget Fonger shares her own personal experience of going through a painful breakup and shows you how to rediscover your deep connection to your own heart, the ultimate source of love in your life. Bridget's method reveals The Five Superpowers: • Super Sight – the courage to see clearly • Super Hearing – the ability to hear your highest truth • Super Humility – discovering your true place in the universe • Super Self-Love – the magic of being in love with you • Super Alignment – knowing the presence of the divine in all things Learn how to get over heartbreak and soar. Whether you’ve been burned by a recent breakup, are harboring old wounds, or find yourself thinking, “Is this as good as it gets?” Superhero of Love will help heal your broken heart and show you that we are all superheroes who are born to fly. In this book, you will discover: • Tools for strengthening your emotional resilience • How to break free from old patterns that keep you stuck • How to gain wisdom to empower you to be your mightiest self Readers of books on how to heal a broken heart like The Wisdom of a Broken Heart, How to Fix a Broken Heart, and This Is Me Letting You Go will find happiness again with Superhero of Love.

Download or read book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F ck written by Mark Manson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller Over 10 million copies sold In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up. Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek. There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.

Download or read book Maintaining Relationships Through Communication written by Daniel J. Canary and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relational maintenance provides a rallying point for those seeking to discover the behaviors that individuals utilize to sustain their personal relationships. Theoretical models, research programs, and specific studies have examined how people in a variety of close relationships choose to define and maintain those relationships. In addition, relational maintenance turns our attention to communicative processes that help people sustain their close relationships. In this collection, editors Daniel J. Canary and Marianne Dainton focus on the communicative processes critical to the maintenance and enhancement of personal relationships. The volume considers variations in maintaining different types of personal relationships; structural constraints on relationship maintenance; and cultural variations in relational maintenance. Contributions to the volume cover a broad range of relational types, including romantic relationships, family relationships, long-distance relationships, workplace relationships, and Gay and Lesbian relationships, among others. Maintaining Relationships Through Communication: Relational, Contextual, and Cultural Variations synthesizes current research in relationship maintenance, emphasizes the ways that behaviors vary in their maintenance functions across relational contexts, discusses alternative explanations for maintaining relationships, and presents avenues for future research. As such, it is intended for students and scholars studying interpersonal communication and personal relationships.

Download or read book Relating Difficulty written by D. Charles Kirkpatrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relating Difficulty offers insight into the nature of difficulty in relationships across a broad range of human experience. Whether dealing with in-laws or ex-spouses, long-distance relationships or power and status in the workplace, difficulty is an all too common feature of daily life. Relating Difficulty brings the academic understanding of relational processes to the everyday problems people face at home and at work. These essays represent a groundbreaking collection of the multidisciplinary conceptual and empirical work that currently exists on the topic. Along with issues such as chronic illness and money problems, contributors investigate contexts of relational difficulty ranging from everyday gossip, the workplace and shyness to more dangerous sexual “hookups” and partner abuse. Drawing on evidence presented in the volume, editors D. Charles Kirkpatrick, Steve Duck, and Megan K. Foley explain how relational problems do not emerge solely from individuals or even from the relationship itself. Instead, they arise from triangles of connection and negotiation between relational partners, contexts, and outsiders. The volume challenges the simple notion that relating difficulty is just about problems with "difficult people" and offers some genuinely novel insights into a familiar everyday experience. This exceptional volume is essential reading for practitioners, researchers and students of relationships across a wide range of disciplines as well as anyone wanting greater understanding of relational functioning in everyday life and at work.

Download or read book The Long Distance Relationship Guide written by Caroline Tiger and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master the challenges of long-distance relationships with this fun and practical survival guide for geographically challenged lovers The phone company might think long distance is the next best thing to being there, but The Long-Distance Relationship Guide knows better: long-distance relationships require hard work, commitment, a sturdy travel bag, a good calling plan, a healthy sense of humor, supportive friends—and lots of ice cream. Here’s everything you need to make sure your relationship can go the distance. Learn how to: • Spot the serial long-distance dater • Prepare for “The Visit” • Discover the joys of phone sex • Write a juicy love letter • Negotiate turn-taking visits Full of helpful quizzes, checklists, and advice from relationship experts and long-distance veterans, The Long-Distance Relationship Guide will help you make the most of your long-distance romance.

Download or read book Separated By Duty United In Love revised written by Shellie Vandevoorde and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Can You Turn. . .? . . .when the bills are due, the kids are acting out, loneliness and doubt are creeping into your quiet hours--and you're handling it all alone? If your partner is in the military, these challenges may be the greatest that your relationship will ever face. Now is the time you need answers, resources, and understanding. This is the book that will give them to you. Military wife and U.S. Army veteran Shellie Vandevoorde has penned a practical, compassionate guide to help military couples cope with the separation of active deployment. Now updated and expanded, Separated by Duty, United in Love is infused with her years of experience, offering sound and comforting advice from someone who's been there. Vandevoorde explores real-life issues and shares invaluable insights on the best ways to: • Keep the lines of communication open while your partner is away • Address your children's fears as you cope with your own • Juggle finances and other household duties • Find the balance you desperately need • Cope with post-traumatic stress, injury and other challenges when a spouse returns from war • Utilize military resources and support groups to help yourself through the toughest times You are not alone. Separated by Duty, United in Love gives you the tools and the encouragement you need to help your military relationship survive--and thrive.

Download or read book Wired for Love written by Stan Tatkin and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Invaluable for so many partners looking to reconnect and grow closer together." —Gwyneth Paltrow, founder and CEO of goop "Stan Tatkin can be entirely followed into the towering infernos of our most painful relationship challenges." —Alanis Morissette, artist, activist, and wholeness advocate The complete “insider’s guide” to understanding your partner’s brain, sparking lasting connection, and enjoying a romantic relationship built on love and trust—now with more than 170,000 copies sold. “What the heck is my partner thinking?” “Why do they always react like this?” “How can we get back that connection we had in the beginning?” If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions, you aren’t alone, and it doesn’t mean that your relationship is doomed. Every person is wired for love differently—with different habits, needs, and reactions to conflict. The good news is that most people’s minds work in predictable ways and respond well to security, attachment, and routines, making it possible to neurologically prime the brain for greater love and connection and fewer conflicts. This go-to guide will show you how. Drawn from neuroscience, attachment theory, and emotion regulation, this highly anticipated second edition of Wired for Love presents cutting-edge research on how and why love lasts, and offers ten guiding principles that can improve any relationship. This fully revised and updated edition also includes new guidance on how to manage disagreements, as well as new exercises to help you create a sense of safety and security, establish healthy conflict ground rules, and deal with the threat of the third—any outside source which threatens the harmony in your relationship, including in-laws, alcohol, children, and affairs. You’ll find proven-effective strategies to help you strengthen your relationship by: Creating and maintaining a safe “couple bubble” Using morning and evening routines to stay connected Learning how to see your partner’s point of view Meeting each other halfway in a fight Becoming the expert on what makes your partner feel loved By using simple gestures and words, you’ll learn to put out emotional fires and help your partner feel appreciated and loved. You’ll also discover how to move past a “warring brain” mentality and toward a more cooperative “loving brain.” Most importantly, you’ll gain a better understanding of the complex dynamics at work behind love and trust in intimate relationships. While there’s no doubt that love is an inexact science, if you understand how you and your partner are wired differently, you can overcome your differences, and create a lasting intimate connection.

Download or read book Maintaining Long Distance and Cross Residential Relationships written by Laura Stafford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-13 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Laura Stafford summarizes literature across the social sciences on various types of long-distance relationships and extracts themes and patterns across the relational types. In so doing, she reconsiders approaches to and offers an expanded vision

Download or read book The Psychology of Friendship written by Mahzad Hojjat and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 20th and 21st centuries, the meteoric rise of countless social media platforms and mobile applications have illuminated the profound need friendship and connection have in all of our lives; and yet, very few scholarly volumes have focused on this unique and important bond during this new era of relating to one another. Exploring such topics as friendship and social media, friendship with current and past romantic partners, co-workers, mentors, and even pets, editors Mahzad Hojjat and Anne Moyer lead an expert group of global contributors as they each explore how friendship factors within our lives today. What does it mean to be a friend? What roles do friendships play in our own development? How do we befriend those across the race, ethnicity, gender, and orientation spectrums? What happens when a friendship turns sour? What is the effect of friendship - good and bad - on our mental health? Providing a much needed update to the field of interpersonal relations, The Psychology of Friendship serves as a field guide for readers as they shed traditional definitions of friendship in favor of contemporary contexts and connections.

Download or read book The Long Distance Relationship Guidebook written by Sylvia Shipp and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-01-28 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Distance Relationship Guidebook is the definitive book on strengthening your long distance relationship (LDR). Its inspirational, no-nonsense advice and discussions are based on years of research and the author's personal experience. It is meant for all couples who have had time to establish their connection and are now facing the challenge of spending time and distance apart. Inside you will find: * 8 key elements to LDR success * 3 discussions you must have * 6 serious LDR problems * 28 red-alert warning signs * 17 ways to harmonize your moments * simple and high-technology ideas * advice based on interviews and surveys * fun and easy activity and gift ideas * case studies With the Long Distance Relationship Guidebook in hand, learn what you can do to bolster, nurture, impassion and protect your relationship, as well as foresee problems before they arise. This book will guide you through rough spots, and inspire you to create incredible moments that will have long-lasting positive effects on your unique relationship.

Download or read book Boundaries in Dating Workbook written by Henry Cloud and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cloud and Townsend apply their award-winning boundaries concepts to the dating relationship. This workbook helps readers work through the principles in "Boundaries in Dating" to make the dating arena a more satisfying, productive one. Those in the dating phase can learn to enjoy its benefits to the fullest, increasing their ability to find and commit to a marriage partner.

Download or read book Long Distance Relationships How to Maintain a Successful Long Distance Relationship Tips to Keep Things on Track and Long Distance Relationship Messages for Him and Her written by Walter Martin and published by Walter Martin. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The parting of the ways is inevitable in life and during the period between teen years and adulthood is even more likely due to the constraints of university choices. Other reasons why there may be long distance relationships is because not every part of the world has the job availability and often people go away from home to work for a while, to gain the extra experience that they need in order to jump up the ladder in their own hometowns. There can be any number of reasons why people find themselves in a long distance relationship, especially since the birth of the internet because romances often bloom online and promises are made that are in fact just as serious as those made face to face. Here is a preview of what you'll learn... • Can you survive a long distance relationship? • Communicating regularly and staying committed • Trust in your long distance relationship • Being creative in your long distance relationship • Making that time together count • Being there for each other • Finally moving to the same place together Living apart might be challenging, but even though you currently live apart, there are plenty of things you can do together and methods to hang out. You can find the answers to your queries and fixes for your issues within the pages of this book. Most importantly, though, you'll learn how to communicate with your partner so that you two may enjoy yourselves more and become closer.

Download or read book The Sociopath Next Door written by Martha Stout, Ph.D. and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2005-02-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the devil you know? Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband? Your sadistic high school gym teacher? Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings? The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own? In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door, you will realize that your ex was not just misunderstood. He’s a sociopath. And your boss, teacher, and colleague? They may be sociopaths too. We are accustomed to think of sociopaths as violent criminals, but in The Sociopath Next Door, Harvard psychologist Martha Stout reveals that a shocking 4 percent of ordinary people—one in twenty-five—has an often undetected mental disorder, the chief symptom of which is that that person possesses no conscience. He or she has no ability whatsoever to feel shame, guilt, or remorse. One in twenty-five everyday Americans, therefore, is secretly a sociopath. They could be your colleague, your neighbor, even family. And they can do literally anything at all and feel absolutely no guilt. How do we recognize the remorseless? One of their chief characteristics is a kind of glow or charisma that makes sociopaths more charming or interesting than the other people around them. They’re more spontaneous, more intense, more complex, or even sexier than everyone else, making them tricky to identify and leaving us easily seduced. Fundamentally, sociopaths are different because they cannot love. Sociopaths learn early on to show sham emotion, but underneath they are indifferent to others’ suffering. They live to dominate and thrill to win. The fact is, we all almost certainly know at least one or more sociopaths already. Part of the urgency in reading The Sociopath Next Door is the moment when we suddenly recognize that someone we know—someone we worked for, or were involved with, or voted for—is a sociopath. But what do we do with that knowledge? To arm us against the sociopath, Dr. Stout teaches us to question authority, suspect flattery, and beware the pity play. Above all, she writes, when a sociopath is beckoning, do not join the game. It is the ruthless versus the rest of us, and The Sociopath Next Door will show you how to recognize and defeat the devil you know.

Download or read book Long Distance Love written by HowExpert and published by HowExpert. This book was released on 2016-09-11 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to make your long distance relationship work, then get this step by step guide by someone who has that EXACT experience in real life. As with any relationship, a long distance relationship involves more than just the two people trying to make it in a difficult and strenuous relationship. It involves family, friends and all people who care about us. Because long distance relationships can be especially stressful, I offer a step-by-step guide to negotiating different aspects of the relationship. In my book, I discuss tips and guidelines that will help with each phase of the relationship from meeting to courtship. I interject personal stories and asides regarding my UK to US romance in a way that showcases the human side of the advice that is always easier to offer than to truly apply. Advice includes: • What to consider entering a long distance relationship. • How to find love and decide whether or not a connection is worth fighting for as it is maintained through a long distance relationship. • Establishing the objectives and logistics involved in seeing through an online relationship to a successful outcome. • How to trust and rely on a partner you are no with in the flesh. What to consider before committing to an online relationship and how to tackle feelings of mistrust and insecurity. • Modern courtship and how to negotiate meeting the family and courting a long distance partner in an already difficult situation. • Coping with the distance and loneliness involved in a long distance relationship. • Preparing for the big day and changes that lie after working to be together with a long distance partner at last. As a long distance relationship forms and progresses, there are many obstacles, which require being addressed. My guide describes he stages of the relationship and the stages of planning a long distance relationship must undergo in order to succeed. About the Expert Having been in a long distance relationship more than once, I am all too familiar with the obstacles and concerns of everyone involved. Long distance relationships are something my family had to cope with as being part of a wave of the future. The ease of communication in the modern age also makes it easier to develop strong emotional attachment to people you can’t since. My behavior initially made my family confused when I began expressing myself through online communication and relationships. While I did not expect to find love, let alone fight for it as I did, it was worth it in the end to see it succeed. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.