Emotional intimacy is the very fabric of healthy, happy, and fulfilled relationships. Based on doctoral research, Emotional Intimacy 101, explores how emotional intimacy functions in romantic relationships. Learn how gender differences affect emotional intimacy. Learn what really builds emotional intimacy. Learn what breaks down emotional intimacy. Get to the root causes of relational troubles. Understand temperaments and how they influence emotional intimacy. Discover tools to develop bet...

The Phenomenal #1 New York Times BestsellerIn his classic guide to understanding the opposite sex, Dr. John Gray, provides a practical and proven way for men and women to improve their communication and relationships by acknowledging the fundamental gender differences between them.Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together because they respected and accepted their differences. Th...

Have you ever dreamed about walking the Camino de Santiago? Join Peter Murtagh, acclaimed Irish journalist, and his teenage daughter Natasha on their epic pilgrimage across the Way of St James and experience their life-changing adventure with them.If you've ever wondered what a hike of 900 miles involves, physically and emotionally, look no further than Buen Camino! You will be transported to Northern Spain, to bull-running and fiestas, to prayers and ancient Christian churches, to a gruel...

As parents, we all want our boys to grow up to be happy, healthy and successful. For this to happen, it’s vital we understand their world, their challenges, and how our relationship with them must change as they become young men. Using real-life examples, parenting expert Dr Arne Rubinstein clearly explains the risks teenagers face today, including drugs, alcohol, technology and peer group pressure. He then shows how you can equip your son to make safe and sensible choices.

In 1971, a teenage girl briefly disappears from her house in the middle of the night, only to return a different person, causing fissures that threaten to fracture her Punjabi Sikh family.As Singapore’s political and social landscapes evolve, the family must cope with shifting attitudes toward castes, youth culture, sex and gender roles, identity and belonging. Inheritance examines each family member’s struggles to either preserve or buck tradition in the face of an ever-changing n...

Connemara and the wildness of the Irish coast came to mean so much to Annie and Noel Quinn. For just as the Atlantic Ocean had over time carved deep wounds into that coastline, life had dealt Annie and Noel some profound losses-a traumatic childhood accident and lengthy hospitalization, the death of a spouse, and a divorce after thirty years of marriage, before they magically met at the Connemara Coast Hotel.  Just as those oceanic wounds resulted in the beauty of the inlets, bays, an...

Everyone swears it is part of our culture, but do we teach our children how to swear, where to swear, when to swear and why? In direct response to the promptings of her friends Anita and Steve, Kim answers these very questions through this humorist docufiction. The unpredictable lives of three engaging children: Abbey (an inspiring know it all teen); Ben (an action-hero middle syndrome child); and Chloe (the temper-tantrum-ridden baby) are shared in presenting How to Teach Your Kids to Swe...

My husband has AIDS. I miraculously don’t.How am I going to survive?…I try to keep from screaming, “Dennis, you can’t do this to me now. I left my family, my friends, my job, pulled the kids away from their school and friends—you can’t quit on us. You can’t.”Through clenched teeth, he controls his response, “Scott, I’m tired. I’m dying.” Dennis is walking away and does not sound tired; he sounds angry.“Have you not heard anything I’ve told you for the last twent...

I have now been happily married for 10 years (almost) at the time of writing. I am 55 years old, have never been married before but I am enjoying my married life tremendously.Marriage is not about luck, it is sometimes hard work, it requires sacrifice, sometimes a complete change of ideas but the benefits are incredible and beyond my wildest dreams. It is and remains the best decision of my life to get married. By far.Of course, marriage involves two people and I am eternal...

The Cousins is a series of books that centers around cousins growing up in a family. The first book, "The Cousins - SHARING" is about the two older cousins, Amberly and Xavier, who grew up together from babies and the youngest cousin, Braxton, who has to find in place in the dynamic of his sister and cousin. They all get their first lesson - SHARING when they spend a weekend with their grandmother. "The Cousins" series explores the dynamics of family life between the cousins and the birth ...

A homesteader in Wyoming, and a memoirist who between 1909 and 1914 wrote letters describing her life there to a former employer in Denver, Colorado. Those letters, which reveal an adventurous, capable, and resourceful woman of lively intelligence, were published in two collections in 1914 and 1915. The first of those collections, Letters of a Woman Homesteader, was the basis of the 1979 movie Heartland. Contents Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1913) Letters on an Elk Hunt ...

Too many of us today view sex or sexuality as separate and apart from procreation. In this article, the author defines the whole procreation/sexual nexus as one of man, woman, and child, a nexus running through all things at all times from alpha to omega. Author Bio: Christopher Alan Anderson (1950 - ) received the basis of his education from the University of Science and Philosophy, Swannanoa, Waynesboro, Virginia. He resides in the transcendental/romantic tradition, that vein of spiritua...