Passionate marriage : love, sex and intimacy in emotionally committed relationships / David Schnarch.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2009]Edition: Norton pbk. edDescription: 444 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780393334272
- 0393334279
- Subtitle on cover: Keeping love & intimacy alive in committed relationships
- RC557 .S312 2009
Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Main Collection Books | John Brown University Library | Main | RC557 .S312 2009 | Checked out | 09/18/2024 | 39524100445174 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-428) and index.
With a new preface by the author, this updated edition explores the ways in which passion can be kept alive and how the height of sexual and emotional fulfillment can be reached in later life.
Nobody's ready for marriage--marriage makes you ready for marriage -- Differentiation : developing a self-in-relation -- Your sexual potential : electric sex! -- Intimacy is not for the faint of heart -- Sexual desire : who wants to want -- Hugging till relaxed -- Love and foreplay aren't blind, unless you insist on it -- Eyes-open orgasm : making contact during sex -- Where's your head during sex? : mental dimensions of sexual experience -- Fucking, doing, and being done : it isn't what you do, it's the way you do it -- Two-choice dilemmas and normal marital sadism -- Hold onto yourself : your crucible survival guide -- Couples in the crucible : reaching critical mass -- Sex, love, and death.