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The New York Times bestselling guide to transforming an intimate relationship into a lasting source of love and companionship, now fully revised with a new forward and a brand new chapter.
Getting the Love You Want has helped millions of people experience more satisfying relationships and is recommended every day by professional therapists and happy couples around the world. Dr. Harville Hendrix and Dr. Helen...
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Convergent
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Discover the keys to upholding your vows while staying sane in this hilariously candid guide to relationships, from the husband-and-wife team of comedian Kevin Fredericks and influencer Melissa Fredericks. Growing up, Kevin and Melissa Fredericks were taught endless rules around dating, sex, and marriage, but not a lot about what actually makes a relationship work. When they first got married, they felt alone-like every other couple had perfect chemistry...
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HarperCollins
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2004
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English
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In her most provocative book yet, Dr. Laura urgently reminds women that to take proper care of their husbands is to ensure themselves the happiness and satisfaction they yearn for in marriage.
Women want to be in love, get married, and live happily ever after. Yet disrespect for men and disregard for the value, feelings, and needs of husbands has fast become the standard for male-female relations in America. Those two attitudes clash in unfortunate...
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2016
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Not long ago, same-sex couples had to jump through endless hoops to make their relationships even close to legal. For the most part, those days are over. Same-sex couples no longer have to operate as outlaws-they too can have in-laws! But here's the rub: many gay and lesbian couples, accustomed to living off the grid, are so thrilled to have the benefits of marriage that they gleefully jump into marriage without fully understanding the consequences....
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2015
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Is he the right one? Is this the right time? How cold is too cold if you get cold feet? How do you keep your wife satisfied? is infidelity wrong? Where and how do children fit in? What's so bad about marriage? And what's so sublime? - Mining centuries and cultures, sources and genres, bestselling editors Lisa Gurnwald and Stephen Adler offer answers from ancient history and modern politics, poetry and phamphlets, plays and songs, newspaper ads and...
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Carlisle Press
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2017
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The stories and poems of Thirty Little Fingers invite you into the world of one wife and mother as she chronicles the mix of love and tears, of labor and grace, by which she and her family life. Raising children is hilarious, exasperating, and sometimes terrifying; knowing and being known in marriage leads to seasons of delight and to moments of sheer bafflement; expanding one's circle of friends brings bracing insights and unmatched opportunities...
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New Harbinger Publications
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[2016]
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English
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"Every couple fights--it's how you fight that can determine the success of your relationship. This book teaches you to look beyond what you and your partner fight about, and discover the core issues that undermine your relationship.In the midst of a disagreement, many couples ask themselves, "What are we really fighting about?" Sound familiar? As it turns out, breakups and divorce don't happen because couples fight, they happen because of how couples...
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"Marital strife and divorce can be your chance to profoundly transform yourself, your mindset and your relationship with a more harmonious and steady vision. While many of us may be better apart, some of us can actually become better together.What if you emerged from your divorce stronger and more resilient than ever before? Better Apart is the first book to apply the life-changing, healing wisdom of meditation and yoga, combined with practical advice,...
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"In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London's Bond Street and set about the delicate business of matchmaking. Drawing on the bureau's extensive archives, Penrose Halson--who many years later found herself the proprietor of the bureau--tells their story, and those of their clients."--Back cover.
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2015
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Renowned litigator Robert Kaplan knew from the beginning that it was the perfect case to bring down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer had been together as a couple, in sickness and in health, for more than forty years- enduring society's homophobia as well as Syper's near total paralysis from multiple sclerosis. Although the couple was finally able to marry, when Syper died the federal government refusing to...
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ABC-CLIO
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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The subject of same-sex marriage, including its intersection with the subject of religion, has exploded onto the cultural and political scene in the last 50 years. Before 1970, no state acted to ban same-sex marriage. In fact, it wasn't until 1970 that a same-sex couple applied for (and was denied) a marriage license in the United States. Thus, nearly 200 years after our country was founded, the subject was not even on most people's radars. Now, just...
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"A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists Jessica Compton's family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter Brianna in Chicago often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends. After two decades of brilliant research on American poverty, Kathryn Edin noticed something she hadn't...
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BenBella Books
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[2015]
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English
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"Every marriage has its rough patches. If you're wondering how to repair yours, step away from the therapist, put down the magazine, and pick up this book. If you want to build a long, happy, fulfilling marriage, why not learn from the women who've done it? Laura Doyle's marriage was in trouble. After five years, her husband had become distant. He seemed checked out of their relationship, preferring watching TV to making love. There were frequent...
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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This beautiful lookbook contains all the inspiration you need for planning a bridal shower, rehearsal dinner, ceremony, and reception filled with laidback elegance, easygoing charm, and eye-catching details. It shows you more than a dozen gorgeous settings - everyday sites transformed into festive venues, from a simple outdoor shed sweetened up for a gardening-themed bridal shower to a weathered barn decked out for a stunning reception. Featuring...
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