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    Partners In Passion: A Guide to Great Sex, Emotional Intimacy and Long-term Love

    By Mark Michaels

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    Most of us long for intimate relationships, and though texting and emailing may keep us superficially connected, it ultimately cannot create the kind of intimacy necessary to sustain a deep, fulfilling, and lasting partnership. With the divorce rate reaching a staggering 50 percent in 2013 and the breakup rate among unmarried long-term couples even higher, it appears that the more we tweet, the more disconnected we become. So many of us believe that new is better, hotter, and more intense, but love at first sight isn't really love, it's chemistry. Developing the connections and intimacy that everyone craves takes time and skill. In Partners in Passion, Michaels and Johnson provide readers with a fun, step-by-step guide to discovering true, loving, and romantically sexual relationships that will last for decades. Comprehensive and inclusive, Partners in Passion is original and provocative, drawing on a variety of sources: cutting-edge science, psychology, the authors' background in tantra, and personal experiences as teachers and as a couple. Partners in Passion invites couples to design their relationships and to choose consciously, and is replete with how-to suggestions and exercises, including interviews with couples from diverse backgrounds, relationship styles, and orientations who are enjoying erotically vibrant partnerships.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCleis Press
    Release dateFeb 11, 2014
    ISBN9781627780452
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    • 3/5
      As other reviewers have stated, this book does stretch boundaries and can make some people uncomfortable. However, the advice given and topics explored can serve as great discussion for a couple, rather you agree with the authors or not. Its a great book to read with an open mind.
    • 4/5
      I liked this book. Nothing in it was earth-shattering for me, yet I have caught some of my ways of thinking about my relationship with my husband changing subtly in a positive way. I was expecting more discussion of emotions and psychology (why, I'm not sure), but the focus does seem (to me) to be especially on sex as the primary means of building intimacy. Again, though, it seemed to work for me. My husband and I had been growing a bit sexually distant since our daughter was born two years ago, with all the demands of parenting and changing work roles, but I've been (again, seemingly without conscious thought) implementing some of the authors' recommended actions and have found our physical intimacy--and, as a result, our emotional intimacy--increase a great deal.I was surprised at how much focus was placed on open relationships in the book. It seemed an "inordinate" amount of book space was used to discuss open relationships, but perhaps that is to help the more conventionally minded to come to grips with the idea. In any case, my husband and I have discussed the possibility of opening our marriage and have left it open (no pun intended) as a potentiality, and we know several people in open marriages and long-term relationships, so this was not new material for me. Despite that, the discussion did offer me some new ideas to consider regarding how opening a relationship can be employed, very mindfully, as a tool to strengthen the primary relationship. Many of the other resources about opening relationships that I have encountered have seemed to focus more on the physical and logistical ways to make such arrangements work, and on the potential for envy and jealousy and how marvelous things can be--but without this focus on keeping the emotional and physical/sexual health of the primary relationship of prime importance.Thus, all in all, I find this a good book that I would recommend to anyone lamenting relationship changes with one or more significant others, though possibly not for the ultra-conservative--though I believe the book has much to offer anyoone.