Lesbian Couples: A Guide to Creating Healthy Relationships [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Written by two experienced lesbian therapists, Lesbian Couples covers a range of topics—commitment ceremonies and marriage, living arrangements, work, money, togetherness and separate identities, coming out to family and friends, resolving conflict and understanding each other—and uses a variety of helpful examples and problem-solving techniques, drawing from research done on lesbian couples over the past decade. The book pays special attention to differences of race, class, age and physical ability, and addresses the issues raised when one or both partners are recovering from alcohol, substance, or sexual abuse. The book also addresses differences that lesbians may encounter in their relationships regarding such issues ...
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Overview

Written by two experienced lesbian therapists, Lesbian Couples covers a range of topics—commitment ceremonies and marriage, living arrangements, work, money, togetherness and separate identities, coming out to family and friends, resolving conflict and understanding each other—and uses a variety of helpful examples and problem-solving techniques, drawing from research done on lesbian couples over the past decade. The book pays special attention to differences of race, class, age and physical ability, and addresses the issues raised when one or both partners are recovering from alcohol, substance, or sexual abuse. The book also addresses differences that lesbians may encounter in their relationships regarding such issues as butch-femme, transgender identity, bisexuality, monogamy, and s/m. Thoroughly readable and extremely helpful, with an updated resource guide, Lesbian Couples is a book that every lesbian will want to own.

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The authors, both white, middle-class therapists working with lesbian couples, and both involved in long-term lesbian relationships, present a an extremely readable, informative, and nonjudgmental guide for lesbians interested in relationships and for therapists working with them. The authors demonstrate the diversity of lesbian couples, and stress the importance of ongoing communication in dealing with everything from living arrangements to money and time. While one might wish for greater depth in some areas, this is a significant contribution to the psychological literature. James E. Van Buskirk, Acad. of Art Coll. Lib., San Francisco

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780786741250
  • Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 12/21/2004
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Edition description: Fourth Edition
  • Pages: 368
  • Sales rank: 68,648
  • File size: 396 KB

Meet the Author

D. Merilee Clunis, Ph.D., and G. Dorsey Green, Ph.D., are both psychologists in private practice in Seattle. Together they lead workshops for therapists who work with lesbian couples. Their papers on lesbian couples have been presented at the American Psychological Association’s annual meetings. In addition to Lesbian Couples, they have co-authored The Lesbian Parenting Book: A Guide to Creating Families and Raising Children.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1 What is a Couple Anyway? 3
2 Stages of Relationships 9
3 Separateness and Togetherness 29
4 Living Arrangements 42
5 Work, Money, and Time 55
6 Sex 70
7 Monogamy or Nonmonogamy 80
8 Friends, Family, and Sense of Community 95
9 Lesbian Couples with Children 112
10 How Racism Affects Couples 131
11 Differences 143
12 Understanding Each Other 156
13 Resolving Conflict 174
14 Recovery 190
15 Disability 202
16 Growing Older Together 219
17 Endings 232
18 Beginning Again 245
Bibliography 252
Index 263

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