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The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory
- Everything You Need to Know About Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Alternative Love
- Narrated by: Stephanie Rose
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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No one likes a know-it-all, but everyone loves a girl with brains and heart. The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory is an intelligent and comprehensive guide to polyamory, open relationships, and other forms of alternative love, offering relationship advice radically different from anything you'll find on the magazine rack.
This practical guidebook will help women break free of the mold of traditional monogamy, without the constraints of jealousy, possessiveness, insecurity, and competition. The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory incorporates interviews and real-world advice from women of all ages in nontraditional relationships, as well as exercises for building self-awareness, confidence in communication, and strategies for managing and eliminating jealousy. If you're curious about exploring group sex, opening up your current monogamous relationship, or ready to "come out" as polyamorous, this book covers it all!
Whether you're a seasoned graduate, a timid freshman, or somewhere in between, you'll learn how to discover and craft unique relationships that are healthy, happy, sexy, and tailor-made for you. Because when it comes to your love life, being a know-it-all is actually a great thing to be.
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How do you own the world, how do you own disorder?
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Touching
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A relationship expert and dating columnist shares her counterintuitive approach to lasting love: encouraging women to date their "non-types". After years of dating, many women fall into relationship ruts. As serial daters, they are attracted to the same type of man time and again. Clearly something's not working. But the problem is not that he's just not that into them - the reality is he's just not their type.
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Like a constant friend, this collection of meditations is a source of strength and reassurance designed to speak to women like you, women in relationships with angry and controlling men. It helps you to digest what is happening a piece at a time, so you can gain clarity, safety, and freedom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just what I needed.
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Charlotte Kasl, bestselling author, spiritual practitioner, and therapist, brings a compassionate understanding to the anxiety and uneasiness of new love, and helps listeners discover their potential for vibrant human connection based on awareness, kindness, and honesty. She approaches the dating process as a means for awakening, reminding us that when we live by spiritual rules, we bring curiosity and a light heart to the romantic journey.
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Life Coach Book NOT JUST FOR DATING
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just ok...
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New York Times best-selling, award-winning author, actor, and motivational speaker Hill Harper invites listeners to join the conversation about the breakdown of the African-American family. The black community of past generations found strength in families, but today’s black children have less than a one in three chance of being raised in a two-parent household. Harper’s search for answers to this phenomenon is an enlightening and empowering journey.
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~*AWESOME*~
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Internationally best-selling author and relationship expert Arielle Ford offers the keys to rediscovering love, passion, respect, and renewed commitment years after the simple act of falling in love and getting married. It's one thing to fall in love and get married. It is quite another thing to have a marriage you love. This is the true purpose of Turn Your Mate into Your Soulmate.
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3 out of 5 stars
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More than a million couples can't be wrong! And with this updated edition of their award-winning book, Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott help you launch lifelong love like never before. This is more than an audiobook - it's an experience. Get ready for deeper intimacy with the best friend you'll ever have. Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts, in more than 15 languages, is the most widely used marriage prep tool in the world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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basically just a long advertisement
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From the initial stages of trying to agree who can do what with whom, through advanced issues such as coping with logistics and seeking compersion, every relationship sooner or later confronts jealousy - and some relationships do not survive the confrontation. In this book, you will find 42 supportive exercises, developed by a professional relationship counselor and refined by hundreds of clients trying to find their own paths through jealousy.
By: Kathy Labriola
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Open
- Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage
- By: Jenny Block
- Narrated by: Lauren Weedman
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Finally, a book about open marriage that grapples with the problems surrounding monogamy and fidelity in an honest, heartfelt, and non-fringe manner. Jenny Block is your average girl next door, a suburban wife and mother for whom married life never felt quite right. While many books on this topic presuppose that the listener is ready to embrace an "alternative lifestyle", Block operates from the assumption that most couples who are curious about or engaged in open marriages are in fact more like her - normal people who question whether monogamy is right for them.
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"Open" inspires a new look at marriage
- By Erich on 01-20-15
By: Jenny Block
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Jealousy Survival Guide
- How to Feel Safe, Happy and Secure in an Open Relationship
- By: Kitty Chambliss CPC ELI-MP
- Narrated by: Kitty Chambliss
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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In Jealousy Survival Guide, Kitty Chambliss does the homework for you and collects the best tidbits on life and emotions to give you inspiration and provide tools to gain and practice new skills. Combining her own life experience with these pearls of wisdom, Kitty focuses on jealousy in consensually non-monogamous relationships - what it is, how it expresses, and specific ways to manage it.
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Becoming a Better You
- By T Bisbee on 05-18-21
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Hurts So Good
- The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose
- By: Leigh Cowart
- Narrated by: Leigh Cowart
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Masochism is sexy, human, reviled, worshipped, and can be delightfully bizarre. Deliberate and consensual pain has been with us for millennia, encompassing everyone from Black Plague flagellants to ballerinas dancing on broken bones to competitive eaters choking down hot peppers while they cry. Masochism is a part of us. It lives inside workaholics, tattoo enthusiasts, and all manner of garden variety pain-seekers.
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I can't recommend this highly enough
- By K. Reay on 12-10-21
By: Leigh Cowart
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Ready for Polyamory
- A Pragmatic Guide to Consensual Non-Monogamy
- By: Laura Boyle
- Narrated by: Leanne Yau
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Ready for Polyamory outlines different types of polyamorous relationships so that you can find your flavor of consensually non-monogamous relationship and go in with both eyes open to the possibilities before you. In outlining not just the various kinds of polyamorous and CNM relationships available to you but also practical steps to take when opening a previously monogamous relationship or adding new partners to a non-monogamous network, this audiobook offers theory and practical advice for polyamorists, both new and experienced.
By: Laura Boyle
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- Jocelyn Harris
- 11-14-18
A great guide for all
This book is a collection of advice you hear in the polyam community wrapped in a personal perspective. Several times I found myself having to skip back because something thought provoking would send my mind on a tangent. It may be my new go to recommendation for people asking where to start.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-06-20
can't wait to listen again
fantastically comprehensive deep dive into all things ENM. perfect blend of anecdotal and research based.
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- Rob AnderSiN
- 12-29-22
Well put together book
This is a great informational book and is a good way to examine Safely if polyamory is for you
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- Ray
- 08-07-21
thought provoking
I love how much this book made me think and the growth it gave me.
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- RetroRosie
- 12-30-21
Great resource!
Dedeker is one of my favorite authors and speakers (her podcast is great too!) This book is an easy read but has wonder tools you can learn to help navigate poly (or mono) relationships. It’s a must have.
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- Laci
- 02-28-24
So informative!
Dedeker provides so much information about the benefits and struggles of poly along with different ways these can be handled. This book gave me a ton to think about and there were so many, "ah ha!" moments where things just made sense for my current situation. Definitely recommend!
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- Suyanne Mello
- 04-17-24
Very educational
This was my first book on polyamory and I learned loads from it. Highly recommend as an introduction to the topic.
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- Myffy Hopkins
- 05-16-19
amazing!
what a great book! a new world we can live without shame. a manual for the non mongomous
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- Anonymous User
- 01-01-24
Vast background of relationships
I learned so much about the fundamentals of a relationship this book is for anyone and any type of relationship
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- Boukman Bastia
- 10-16-20
A nice in depth view at polyamory.
The author really touched on all the subjects I could have possibly thought about.A good read for anyone trying to get into the lifestyle.
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