Book Club
The relationships & emotional health Book Club - recommended relationship reads via LifeLube. Send us a note with your favs.
Affirmative Gay Relationships: Key Steps in Finding a Life Parter
2006, by Neil Kaminsky, LCSW. This book presents a step-by-step strategy for gay men serious about finding a life partner and establishing a committed relationship.
Confusing Love with Obsession2006, by John D. Moore. Are you concerned that your attraction to another person has become unhealthy? Do you feel that you have become obsessed with someone or with your relationship? Are the feelings you experience around this person overwhelming? Why do so many women and men attach themselves to destructive and painful relationships -- relationships that they cannot walk away from? Why do they need to manipulate and control their partners, using whatever means necessary? Therapist John Moore helps these people to identify, comprehend and become aware of their destructive behaviors in personal relationships so they can stop the vicious cycle of pain. Check out the Relationship Addiction website for more insights.
Gay Relationships: How to Find Them, How to Improve Them, How To Make Them Last
2003, by Tina Tessina, PhD. Gay Relationships is a comprehensive guide to health, loving relationships for gay men and lesbian women. This book provides unique insights into the special issues faced by sam-sex couples and offers practical and sensitive advice that all gay men and women will find valuable.
Gay and Single... Forever?: 10 Things Every Gay Guy Looking for Love (and Not Finding It) Needs to Know2006, by Steven Berenzai. The author of this book investigates the basic question of whether there can be acceptance for him and other single gay men- as single men- when the push to partner with a man has replaced the pressure to marry a woman.
Love Between Men: Enhancing Intimacy and Resolving Conflicts in Gay Relationships
2005, by Ric Isensee. In this book the author presents ways to improve your relationship and communicate better with your boyfriend, lover, or even your next date! You'll learn how to resolve conflicts instead of escalating or retaliating, enhancing the sense of intimacy and love that brought you together in the first place.
Keeping Mr. Right: The Gay Man's Guide to Lasting Relationships
2004, by Kenneth George, PhD. This book provides guidelines for gay men on forming successful relationships including tips on:Negotiating changes rather than living with annoying differences, defining your relationship with a "job description," resolving conflicts rather than walking away, maintaining your friendship within the context of your partnership, having a great sex life, developing a willingness to continue working on the relationship.
Pink Therapy - recommended reading for relatioships
Pink Therapy is the UK's largest independent therapy organisation working with gender and sexual minority clients. As an organisation they aim to promote high quality therapy and training services for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and others who identify as being sexual minorities. The page linked above has a nice selection of books to check out.
Permanent Partners: Building Gay & Lesbian Relationships Last
2004, by Betty Berzon, PhD, In this book the author offers up-to-the-minute advice on emotional, financial, and legal issues that two men or two women face as they create a life together.
