Recommended reading
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Already Free
Already Free can help you:
- feel your feelings without acting on them
- notice where you feel things in your body
- understand where resentment in a marriage comes from
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Passionate Marriage
Passionate Marriage can help you:
- learn to care more about your partner
- understand what causes sexual problems in marriage
- begin to see how you contribute to problems in your marriage
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Intimacy & Desire
Awaken the Passion in Your Relationship
Schnarch’s book on sexual desire in long-term relationships. He argues that desire problems are normal and a chance to grow, not a sign that love has died, and he introduces the Four Points of Balance.
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Growing Yourself Up
How to Bring Your Best to All of Life’s Relationships
A guide to emotional maturity. Its starting point is that seeing the patterns of relationship you are part of, and growing up in them, leads to more honesty and humility with the people you care about.
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True to You
A Therapist’s Guide to Stop Pleasing Others and Start Being Yourself
A therapist’s guide to people-pleasing, from the author of Everything Isn’t Terrible.
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The Courage to Be Disliked
The Courage to Be Disliked can help you:
- understand anger
- take responsibility for your own feelings and your own behavior
- start to earn your own self-respect
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