Dean's review of Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships
Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships by David Schnarch
If you can briefly put on hold all of your important feelings about heteropatriarchy and the disgusting insidious institution of marriage and buy a book cover to hide the worst title in the world while your read this book on the subway, there is some good stuff in here. I especially like this one diagram that I am always drawing for friends in relationship crisis. Sometimes I fantasize about writing a radical trans/queer relationship self-help book that is a combination of this book, Against Love, the Ethical Slut, Capital Vol. 1, Abberations in Black, Getting the Love You Want, Wild Fermentation, On Conflict and Consensus, The History of Sexuality Vol. 1, and The Autobiography of Red.
One of the things I always remember from PM is the part about how we are attracted to people who are at the same level of differentiation as us, so even if your dream boat seems like a total loon, or you feel like they've got it all together and you're deeply stunted, its just a dynamic created by yo...more
One of the things I always remember from PM is the part about how we are attracted to people who are at the same level of differentiation as us, so even if your dream boat seems like a total loon, or you feel like they've got it all together and you're deeply stunted, its just a dynamic created by yo...more
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