Erotic sepia photographs combine with a sensitive, informative text in this frank guide to keeping a sexual relationship fresh and vital

Drawing from her years of professional experience as a sexual surrogate and therapist, Keesling delves into the profound and complex powers of sexuality, offering readers the idea that sexual exchange between loving partners contains all the elements necessary for healing and happiness: touch, intimacy, communication, physical activity, and playfulness.

For years Gary Smalley has helped millions of couples throughout North America enrich their relationships and deepen their bonds of love and companionship. In this extraordinary book, he shows you how to stay in love through all the stages of life. From first attraction to lifelong commitment, Gary's proven techniques and practical advice show you how to pursue and keep the love you want, and how to energize your relationship with enduring, passion-filled love. In this book you'll learn how to: Understand and use love's best-kept secret Deal with the number one enemy of love Turn headaches into more love Increase your energy to keep loving Find the power to keep on loving your spouse Use normal conflicts as doorways to intimacy Read a woman's built-in marriage manual twelve ways Divorce-proof your marriage Develop the five vital signs of a healthy marriage Respond to your partner's number one request Find the powerful secret to great love Bring out the best in your maddening mate With humor, empathy, and insight, Gary Smalley inspires you to fall in love with life and enjoy the deep satisfaction of a lifelong love. Down-to-earth examples, touching personal experiences, and inspiring spiritual principles will motivate you to bring about positive changes in your marriage-whether or not your mate is a willing participant. You'll learn how to tap resources at hand to help you follow through with your journey-and make your love last forever.

"Make Love Better" is part self-help, part memoir, part instruction manual--a psychologically savvy self-improvement guide, to help couples understand themselves and navigate complex and intersectional relationship issues. Using stories from her own checkered and colorful relationship life and over 25 years of international, cross-cultural experience as a couples therapist and relationship coach, Jan Dworkin, PhD, lays bare her missteps, cringes, and triumphs both in and out of the bedroom with honesty, humor and depth. Loaded with examples, exercises, practical tools, and hard-earned wisdom, she guides readers to develop expertise and build their very own "relationship practice."--Publisher

“Something is wrong with our culture’s understanding of marriage,” says best-selling author and Bible teacher Tommy Nelson (The Book of Romance). In Better Love Now!, Nelson mends that understanding, comparing the essential but too often ignored elements of matrimony to fence posts. With wisdom, humor, and frankness, he clearly expounds on the areas that keep a marriage standing strong: Priorities; Communication; Your Life Together; Family Life; Respect; and Sex. Best of all, Tommy mixes scientific and psychological insight with biblical assuredness, exciting readers about the improving state of their sacred union.“ Build your marriage on God’s revelation and it will never fail.”

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Your Prescription for Good Health --and a Great Relationship People don't often think of lovemaking as a way to improve their health, but accord- ing to expert Dr. Barbara Keesling, loving sexual exchange can enhance physical, emotional and spiritual wellness in real--and amazing--ways. And the same lovemaking includes all the elements necessary for a healing relationship: touch, communication, physical activity and playfulness. Rx Sex asks what you want to heal--emotions, physical problems or relationship--and directs you to the setting and exercises that are right for you. Adults of any age, sexual orientation and level of fitness can perform the exercises, which progress from simple to advanced. The positive effects of this loving prescription include: Physical benefits Strengthening your immune system, breathing and circulation Giving you healthier-looking skin, hair and eyes Relieving pain and helping to improve chronic conditions Mental and emotional benefits Helping you overcome depression and anxiety Improving concentration and memory Restoring a positive body image and a sense of joy Relationship benefits Finding and bonding with a true partner Discovering the difference between having sex and making love Enriching your partnership with intimacy, mutuality and commitment No pills to swallow, no shots to endure--just exciting, fulfilling lovemaking. What better prescription could there be for you and your partner--or your relationship?

"One of the foremost relationship experts at work today offers creative insight on building trust and avoiding betrayal, helping readers to decode the mysteries of healthy love and relationships"--

Declutter Your Love Life and Go From Falling to Not Failing in Love Why is love so elusive? Why can it be there one day and gone the next? Why does everything change for some people as soon as they move in together, get married, or have children? Why do people who seem so right for each other fall out of love without warning? Or is there a warning? Is there a science, an art behind all of this? How do couples that stay madly in love for decades, truly until death does part them, do it? Figuring this out has been my mission ever since I was a young boy, given that my parents had a very unstable relationship with more yelling than your average death metal concert. Nevertheless, I didn