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A Happy Life in an Open Relationship
- The Essential Guide to a Healthy and Fulfilling Nonmonogamous Love Life
- Narrated by: Robin Eller
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Discover the secrets to successful open relationships. A Happy Life in an Open Relationship is a handbook to healthy nonmonogamous relationships.
For anyone curious about open relationships, here is a valuable handbook from an expert in love, sex, and communication.
Relationship therapist Susan Wenzel - who is in an open marriage herself - delivers skillful advice on how to navigate the complex emotional landscape of multi-partner relationships, from polyamory to swinging.
- Filled with of compelling personal stories, anecdotes from clients, and practical exercises
- A guide to cultivating harmonious and fulfilling open relationships
- Author Susan Wenzel is a sex and relationship therapist with years of experience counseling patients on issues related to monogamy, intimacy, and trust.
A Happy Life in an Open Relationship will help you develop your trust and communication skills, explore sexuality and desire, build your confidence and self-worth, set healthy boundaries, overcome jealousy, and so much more.
People interested in making changes in their relationships will appreciate the positive tone, helpful advice, and expert wisdom from an accomplished relationship therapist who has gone through the experience herself.
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- 2022-03-13
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Hit a wall in y relationship… this was the first book I read to learn to solve my issues. Really opened my eyes!! To way more then I saw coming!!
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- 2022-10-21
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I found this book very helpful when I was first coming to terms with my marriage becoming open. It was very well written and she hit some of my concerns head on.
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