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Secrets to Surviving Infidelity
Now completely updated! A compassionate guide to help couples survive infidelity and improve their relationship.When a couple's trust is shattered by infidelity, healing may seem beyond reach--but it doesn't have to be. This second edition of Secrets to Surviving Infidelity offers a compassionate and practical roadmap toward recovery and reconnection. Through humane insights and step-by-step strategies, Dr. Scott Haltzman, a psychiatrist and marriage educator, shares how to overcome the pain of betrayal and strengthen relationships in its wake. Whether you are the wronged partner, the one who strayed, or a therapist navigating your clients' infidelity, this book serves as an essential guide to the intricacies of infidelity--from the initial shock and heartache to the complex process of rebuilding trust. This second edition includes new information on: - The evolving definitions of marriage and commitment, with updated language to include those who are in unmarried, committed relationships.- Relationship challenges unique to the LGBTQ+ community - Gender and sex issues - The neuroscience of infidelity and "flame addiction" - Strategies for conflict managementDr. Haltzman combines real-life stories with robust research to illuminate the types of infidelity, the varied motivations behind affairs, and their impacts on relationships. He provides clear guidance on how to end an affair, how to cope with feelings of anger and grief, and how to foster forgiveness and healing. This book can also serve as a preventive tool to explore and strengthen bonds to make relationships affair-resistant. Secrets to Surviving Infidelity is a lifeline for those desperate to recover and safeguard their relationships.
No Fault
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025: Vogue, Vulture, Bustle, Lit Hub "Enigmatic, opalescent, so precise." --Jia Tolentino An intimate and candid account of one of the most romantic and revolutionary of relationships: divorce Divorce was everything for Haley Mlotek. As a child, she listened to her twice-divorced grandmother tell stories about her "husbands." As a pre-teen, she answered the phones for her mother's mediation and marriage counseling practice and typed out the paperwork for couples in the process of leaving each other. She grew up with the sense that divorce was an outcome to both resist and desire, an ordeal that promised something better on the other side of something bad. But when she herself went on to marry--and then divorce--the man she had been with for twelve years, suddenly, she had to reconsider her generation's inherited understanding of the institution. Deftly combining her personal story with wry, searching social and literary exploration, No Fault is a deeply felt and radiant account of 21st century divorce--the remarkably common and seemingly singular experience, and what it reveals about our society and our desires for family, love, and friendship. Mlotek asks profound questions about what divorce should be, who it is for, and why the institution of marriage maintains its power, all while charting a poignant and cathartic journey away from her own marriage towards an unknown future. Brilliant, funny, and unflinchingly honest, No Fault is a kaleidoscopic look at marriage, secrets, ambitions, and what it means to love and live with uncertainty, betrayal, and hope.
How to Be Dateable
Does dating feel like an endless maze with no way out? Break free from the traps of modern dating and learn how to take control of your love life in this actionable, compassionate guide that will help you find your person and become your most dateable self. As creators and hosts of the hit dating podcast Dateable, Julie Krafchick and Yue Xu have made breaking down the nuances of the ever-evolving dating world, and empowering the people within it, their purpose and passion. Drawing on a decade's worth of research from speaking to thousands of daters and world-renowned experts, Julie and Yue have come to realize that everyone is dateable--it's just the modern dating norms that keep us from falling in love. Contrary to other dating books, How to Be Dateable isn't a playbook of rules to follow or methods to hack your love life. But it will help you identify your dating strong suits and what's getting in your way. To personalize your reading experience, start off with a quiz that reveals your dating archetype (are you an Achiever, Dreamer, Energizer, Maverick, or Thinker?). Then, you'll learn how to break free from the traps that continue to get in your way (The Expectation of Love on Demand, Settling Paradox, Validation Trap, and Relationship Chicken) and how to clear your path to love. Within the book, there are case studies, personal anecdotes, exercises, and self-assuring mantras designed to help you understand your core strengths, date on your terms, and find the relationship that's right for you. Written with the knowledge of experts and the warmth of a wise best friend, How to Be Dateable will help you create a dating life filled with joy, fulfillment, extraordinary connections, and love.
Loveology
What are the most statistically-effective flirting techniques? Is there any such thing as an aphrodisiac? And why does everyone on earth fancy George Clooney? In Loveology, science writer and TV presenter Stefan Gates (author of Rude Science) combines evidence-based research by psychologists, biochemists and neuroscientists to take you on an enlightening journey through some very sticky subjects in his usual humorous style. Packed with surprising facts, flirting techniques and answers to life's big questions, this is the perfect book for Valentine's Day. Chapters include: The Biochemistry of Love The Science of Chat-Up Lines Lustology Snogology Sexology Is Break-Up Sex Ever a Good Idea? 10 Things Every Sex Therapist Wants You To Know When Love Goes Wrong ...And Then What? Loveology is an exhilarating but surprisingly practical journey through romantic and sexual science. Stefan Gates separates agony-aunt wisdom from scientific data with wit and good humour, striking a delicate balance between bald, bold scientific research and luscious, romantic, unknowable expert opinion.
Vows
From the bestselling author of Home Comforts comes the "timely" (The New Yorker), "fascinating, and morally serious," (The Wall Street Journal) story of our wedding vows--what they mean and why they still matter. In the West, marrying is so thoroughly identified with ceremonial promises that "taking vows" is a synonym for getting married. So, it's a surprise to realize that this custom is actually a historical and anthropological oddity. Most of the world, for most of history, married without making promises. And there's a reason for that. Marriage by vow presupposes free choice, and free choice makes a love-match possible. It is a very modern arrangement. Vows is both a moving memoir of two marriages and an "illuminating" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) meditation on marriage itself. Cheryl Mendelson tackles the sociology of commitment through our most traditional promises and shows why they endure. In considering the kind of marriage these vows entail, she helps answer some of life's most urgent and personal questions: Could I, would I, or should I make these promises to someone? Using history and literature, the book describes the parameters of the behavior that traditional vows promise and, in doing so, answers a whole series of other questions: Why did wedding-by-vow arise only in the West? Why are they recited in weddings around the world today? Why have these vows lasted for nearly a thousand years? Why does the kind of marriage promised in the vows survive?
Mean Girls Burn Book
A burn book is like writing a diary. Instead of writing things about yourself, you write mean things about people who are supposed to be your friends. This can be an outlet of your anger. Some can be lies, and some can be secrets that you know about someone.Big Size 8.5" x 11"+60 pagesWhite empty pagesMatte Cover
40 Things I Want to Do with You Forever
The Ultimate Gift for Couples: A Celebration of Love, Laughter, and Lifelong MemoriesImagine a book that feels like a love letter-a beautifully crafted, cool, full-color keepsake that turns shared moments into unforgettable adventures. "40 Things I Always Want to Do with You Forever" is an invitation to deepen your connection, nurture your love, and create the kind of memories that will make your hearts race for years to come.Inside these pages, you'll find 40 meaningful plans designed to bring you closer, whether it's simple joys like sharing a sunset or spontaneous getaways to explore new horizons. Every idea is infused with the magic of togetherness, making this book the ultimate toolkit for love, connection, and laughter.Why this book will melt your heart: Romantic Inspiration: Discover ideas for date nights, adventures, and cozy moments you'll cherish forever.Timeless Design: With its stunning full-color pages and elegant layout, it's as beautiful as the love it celebrates.Made for Gifting: Perfect for anniversaries, Valentine's Day, weddings, birthdays, or just to say, "I love you."This isn't just a gift-it's a promise. A promise to dream together, laugh together, and always find time for one another, no matter where life takes you.Whether you're celebrating years of love or sparking something new, "40 Things I Always Want to Do with You Forever" is the perfect way to say, "You're my forever."Turn your love into a masterpiece.
On Marriage
A compulsively readable, startling, and philosophically rich book about marriage, from an acclaimed critic and filmmaker A New Yorker Best Book of the Year - A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year - A Seminary Coop Notable Book of 2023 "Baum is an erudite and entertaining guide through the landscape of marriage. . . . A fascinating exploration."--Stephanie Merritt, The Guardian "As far back as our history books go, we have no record of a time preceding marriage. Isn't that an extraordinary fact?" So writes Devorah Baum in this searching and revelatory book. Marriage, for better or for worse, is how humans have organized their world and told their story. Straight, queer, coupled, single: none live outside the remit of marriage. One might as well try to live beyond language. But when confronted with the question "What do intellectuals think of marriage?" Baum concludes that most philosophers have preferred to avoid the subject. Is marriage then an intellectual blind spot? To fill in the gaps, she draws on a wide range of cultural material, from the classical to the contemporary, while interweaving reflections on her own experiences of matrimony to both critique and celebrate marriage's many contradictions and its profound effects on us all. In doing so, she reveals how marriage has worked as a cover story for power and its abuses on the one hand, and for subversive and even utopian relational practices on the other. Entertaining, illuminating, consoling, and candid, On Marriage is an unprecedented investigation of what we are really talking about when we talk about marriage.
The Psychology of Menopause
What physical and psychological changes can I expect when going through the menopause? How can I protect my well-being during menopause? How can I ensure a good menopause experience?The Psychology of Menopause provides a useful and positive guide to understanding the psychological, social, and sexual changes that occur during and following menopause. Going beyond hot flushes and HRT, it focuses on how to enhance psychological well-being by looking at the science behind women's lived experiences of perimenopause and postmenopause. The book explores key psychological issues during this transition, such as the risk factors associated with mood and anxiety, the changing social and personal roles for women in midlife, the impact on relationships, and the reasons for brain fog.By putting women's psychological well-being at the heart of this stage of life, The Psychology of Menopause provides a much-needed examination into the psychological, social, cultural, and interpersonal aspects of the transition into and beyond menopause.
