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  1. Close Relationships

    Functions, Forms and Processes

    Edited by Patricia Noller, Judith A. Feeney

    Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

    Close Relationships: Functions, Forms and Processes provides an overview of current theory and research in the area of close relationships, written by internationally renowned scholars whose work is at the cutting edge of research in the field. The volume consists of three sections: introductory...

    Published January 25th 2006 by Psychology Press

  2. Without Condoms

    Unprotected Sex, Gay Men and Barebacking

    By Michael Shernoff

    After years of activism, risk awareness, and AIDS prevention, increasing numbers of gay men are not using condoms, and new infections of HIV are on the rise. Using case studies and exhaustive survey research, this timely, groundbreaking book allows men who have unprotected sex, a practice now known...

    Published October 27th 2005 by Routledge

  3. Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

    Risks and Opportunities

    Edited by Ann C. Crouter, Alan Booth

    Series: Penn State University Family Issues Symposia Series

    In this volume, Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Risks and Opportunities, top scholars in the field of family research examine the nature and origin of adolescents’ contemporary patterns of sexual and romantic relationships, spanning such diverse topics as the...

    Published October 26th 2005 by Psychology Press

  4. Falling in Love

    Why We Choose the Lovers We Choose, 2nd Edition

    By Ayala Malach Pines

    Falling in Love is the first book to unlock the mysteries of how and why we fall in love. Renowned psychologist Ayala Pines shows us why we fall for the people we do, and argues convincingly that we love neither by chance nor by accident. She offers sound advice for making the right choices...

    Published June 23rd 2005 by Routledge

  5. Intrusive Partners - Elusive Mates

    The Pursuer-Distancer Dynamic in Couples

    By Stephen J. Betchen

    When two people form a relationship or marry, they begin to move towards one another with the expectation of closeness. The emotionality or intensity that accompanies this process, however, may result in fusion followed by a desperate need for space or distance. Intrusive Partners - Elusive Mates...

    Published April 25th 2005 by Routledge

  6. Couple Observational Coding Systems

    Edited by Patricia K. Kerig, Donald H. Baucom

    A companion volume to Family Observational Coding Systems, this book moves from the triad to the dyad and provides a showcase for significant developments in the coding of intimate couple interactions. The hope is that this book will contribute to the broadening and deepening of the field by...

    Published May 26th 2004 by Routledge

  7. Thrice Told Tales

    Married Couples Tell Their Stories

    By Diane Holmberg, Terri L. Orbuch, Joseph Veroff

    Researchers have studied marriage for decades, but how is the transition to married life actually experienced by the couples involved? From an insider's perspective, Thrice Told Tales examines married couples' own stories of their relationship. A representative sample of 199 African-American and...

    Published August 31st 2003 by Routledge

  8. Rekindling Desire

    A Step-by-Step Program to Help Low-Sex and No-Sex Marriages

    By Barry McCarthy, Emily McCarthy

    Is sex more work than play in your marriage? Do you schedule it in like a dentist appointment? Do you make love once a month, twice at the most? If you answered yes to these questions, you are among the forty million Americans trapped in a low-sex or no-sex marriage. Now there is help from...

    Published January 12th 2003 by Routledge

  9. Falling in Love

    Why We Choose the Lovers We Choose

    How mystical is love really? Sought after, capable of sending us to emotional extremes from abysmal misery to irrepressible joy, love is often perceived as a force beyond mortal control. Is it as dumb, blind or arbitrary as we often think, and are we subject to its whims? Or do we actually choose...

    Published August 16th 1999 by Routledge