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Intimacy & parenting

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When Your Partner Feels Like a Roommate

Have you ever felt like your partner is more of a roommate than a romantic partner or spouse? Maybe you two make a fantastic team—getting the laundry done, going to the grocery store, getting the kids to and from school—but it doesn’t feel like a relationship.

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Preserving Intimacy with Your Child When Adolescence Begins

Parents often experience less closeness with the teenager than with the child.

Carl E Pickhardt

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My Husband and I Grope Each Other in Front of Our Kids, and Here’s Why

My husband and I grope each other constantly. I don’t think a day goes by without at least one of us copping a feel. I say this proudly because after almost 20 years of being together, we are still hot for each other. And I don’t see any reason to hide this from our kids.

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Psychological Defenses in Everyday Life

Psychological Defenses in Everyday Life is a rich resource that broadens personal understanding by examining the origins of childhood misery, subsequent defense formation, and the pervasiveness and destructiveness of the resulting maladaptive, addictive behaviors in adults.

Joyce Catlett, Robert W. Firestone

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When Mommy Dearest Isn’t So Dear: Unpacking ‘Mommy Issues’

Do you have a strained or complicated relationship with your mother? Maybe difficulties from childhood carried over into your adult relationships, setting the stage for complications with romantic partners or your own children.

Crystal Raypole

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What We Don’t Teach Kids about Sex | Sue Jaye Johnson

As parents, it’s our job to teach our kids about sex. But beyond “the talk,” which covers biology and reproduction, there’s so much more we can say about the human experience of being in our bodies. Introducing “The Talk 2.0.

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Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women

Black women are beautiful, intelligent and capable—but mostly they embrace strong. Esteemed clinical psychologist Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler praises the strength of women, while exploring how trauma and adversity have led to deep emotional pain and shaped how they walk through the world.

Inger Burnett-Zeigler

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Wake Up to the Joy of You: 52 Meditations and Practices for a Calmer, Happier Life

Wake Up to the Joy of You is the simple way to find grace and meaning in your life.

Agapi Stassinopoulos

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Boundaries in an Overconnected World: Setting Limits to Preserve Your Focus, Privacy, Relationships, and Sanity

Over the past decade, 24-7 connectivity has given us not only convenience and fun but worries about privacy, intrusions into family time, and new compulsions—from shopping to tweeting and cute cat watching.

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Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing In Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third Party Reproduction

Based on a hugely successful US model, the Seven Core Issues in Adoption is the first conceptual framework of its kind to offer a unifying lens that was inclusive of all individuals touched by the adoption experience.

Sharon Roszia, Allison Davis Maxon

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