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    Recommended Reading

    Infidelity and Divorce Recovery

    • The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity – Esther Perel
    • Getting Past the Affair: A Program to Help you Cope, Heal and Move On – Douglas Snyder, Don Baucom, Kristina Coop Gordon
    • My Husband’s Affair Became the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me – Anne Bercht
    • How to Help Your Spouse Heal From Your Affair: Manual for the Unfaithful – Linda MacDonald
    • After the Affair – Janis A. Spring
    • The New Monogamy – Tammy Nelson
    • Healing from Infidelity – Michelle Weiner-Davis
    • Not “Just Friends” – Shirley Glass
    • The Monogamy Myth – Peggy Vaughan
    • Transcending Post-Infidelity Traumatic Stress Disorder (PITSD): Six Stages of Healing – Dennis Ortman
    • Science of Trust – John Gottman
    • Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay – Mira Kirshenbaum
    • Grief Recovery Handbook, 20th Anniversary – John W. James, Russell Friedman
    • The Good Divorce – Constance Ahrons
    • Conscious Uncoupling – Katherine Woodward Thomas

    Intimacy and Sexual Health

    • Rekindling Desire – Barry McCarthy
    • Come as You Are – Emily Nagoski
    • Getting the Sex You Want – Tammy Nelson
    • Discovering Your Couple Sexual Style – Barry & Emily McCarthy
    • The Erotic Mind: Unlocking the Inner Sources of Passion and Fulfillment – Jack Morin
    • Arousal: The Secret Logic of Sexual Fantasies -Michael Bader
    • Better Sex Through Mindfulness – Lori Brotto
    • Tell Me What You Want: Science of Sexual Desire – Justin Lehmiller
    • Sexual Intelligence – Marty Klein
    • The New Male Sexuality – Bernie Zilbergeld
    • Coping with Premature Ejaculation / Coping with Erectile Dysfunction – Barry McCarthy
    • Reclaiming Your Sexual Self – Kathryn Hall
    • She Comes First: The Thinking Man’s Guide to Pleasuring a Woman – Ian Kerner
    • Becoming Cliterate – Laurie Mintz
    • Sex for One: The Joy of Self Loving – Betty Dodson
    • A Tired Woman’s Guide to Passionate Sex: Laurie Mintz
    • The Sex Starved Marriage – Michelle Weiner Davis
    • Return of Desire – Gina Ogden
    • For Yourself: Fulfillment of Female Sexuality – Lonnie Barbach
    • Counseling Couples Before, During and After Pregnancy: Sexuality and Intimacy – Stephanie Buehler
    • When Sex Hurts: A Woman’s Guide to Banishing Sexual Pain – Andrew Goldstein
    • The Lovin’ Aint Over: Couples Guide to Better Sex After Prostate Disease – Ralph & Barbara Alterowitz
    • Better than Ever: Love and Sex at Midlife – Bernie Zilbergeld
    • The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability – Miriam Kaufman, Cory Silverberg
    • Making Love Again: Hope for Couples Facing Loss of Sexual Intimacy – Virginia Laken
    • The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse – Wendy Maltz
    • Sex, God, and the Conservative Church: Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy – Tina Schermer Sellers
    • His Porn, Her Pain – Marty Klein
    • Ethical Porn for D!cks – David Ley
    • Treating Out of Control Sexual Behavior – Doug Braun Harvey & Michael Vigorito

    Couples and Relationships

    • Hold Me Tight – Sue Johnson
    • The Seven Principles That Make Marriage Work – John Gottman
    • Getting the Love You Want – Harville Hendrix
    • The Five Love Languages – Gary Chapman
    • Mating in Captivity – Esther Perel
    • Attached – Amir Levine
    • Couples Skills – Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning
    • Rewriting the Rules – Meg John Barker
    • More than Two – Franklin Veaux, Eve Rickert, et. al.


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