Partner Development

It’s time to fully let the relationship go and begin to heal. With Toxic Relationship Recovery, you’ll address the ways that you were wronged during your relationship. You’ll learn strategies for how to trust other people and yourself again after being gaslit, find the warning signs of toxicity and narcissism in others, and reframe negative, harmful thoughts to a positive outlook on life.

If you are in the midst of depression, you may worry that you aren't good enough for your partner, or become irritable around them. You may even push them away when you feel like your emotions are beyond your control. In addition, your sense of intimacy may diminish, and your sex life may fizzle as a result of fatigue, medications and feeling disconnected from your partner. The hard truth is that feelings of isolation, worthlessness, and tiredness can all take a hefty toll on your love life. But you don't have to let depression be the demise of your relationship.

The behavior of people with Asperger's can be hard to understand and easy to misinterpret, which is why it's so important to learn more about your partner's condition. The tools presented in Loving Someone with Asperger's Syndrome will help you build intimacy and improve the way you and your partner communicate. This book will teach you how to understand the effect of Asperger's syndrome on your partner, practice effective communication skills, constructively work through frustrations and fights, and establish relationship ground rules to help you fulfill each others' needs.

Legendary personal development icon Jim Rohn explains the parallels between life and the changing seasons. To realize that the seasons will change without fail and what we can do to utilize each season to get the greatest rewards. This popular book is based on the parable of the sower and the reaper. What to do in one season to ensure success in another season. It's great for those who are going through difficult times personally or financially, because it helps them see that this "winter" in their life will eventually give way to "spring."

If you have an anxious attachment style, you may struggle to believe you will ever be worthy enough for potential partners, and you may doubt that relationships will ever work out. While it takes hard work to change an insecure attachment style, research shows that people can create secure attachment by doing work on themselves and facilitating better communication with partners. All you need is to learn the tools that this book provides and begin to apply them to your life.

The Gaslighting Effect is a book that delivers a powerful, yet easy-to-understand, compact read covering the whole scope of narcissistic abuse, as told from a survivor's perspective. Reva Steenbergen accomplishes this by combining her own personal experiences with thousands of other survivors, as well as psychiatrists, psychologists, scientists, professors, relationship experts, therapists, and so many more to validate a person's experience with any narcissist.

In Vindicated: Confessions of a Video Vixen, Ten Years Later, Karrine takes listeners into the belly of the beast as she harrowingly chronicles the systematic breakdown of her mind, body, and spirit at the hand of one man and the events that propelled her back to prosperity after losing everything. She candidly shares her struggle to be what others demand, her obsession with the American dream, her desperation to appear normal, the lengths to which she went, and the price she paid for it all.

If you know Audrina Patridge from one of the most successful reality shows ever, MTV’s The Hills, you know that she doesn’t pull punches. For years, she hid the challenges she faced, but now, she’s finally sharing her full story for the first time—and it’s not a neat little story, tied with a bow. This is the unvarnished truth about being young and carefree in Los Angeles, filming The Hills, and getting access to the most exclusive parties, decadent restaurants, and VIP clubs.

This groundbreaking audiobook from the best-selling authors of Getting the Love You Want and co-authors of Giving the Love that Heals is the first to address the biggest unexplored issue facing couples today: Most of us are better at giving love than accepting it.

John Bradshaw’s best-selling books and compelling PBS series have touched and changed millions of lives. Now, in Creating Love, he offers us a new way to understand our most crucial relationships - with our romantic partners and spouses, with our parents and children, with friends and coworkers, with ourselves, and with God.

Communication is integral to all relationships, especially intimate ones. Anxiety - and the negative thought patterns it brings with it - can wreak havoc on an otherwise healthy relationship. So, why do some couples strengthen their bonds over time, while for others the conversation just dies? Anxiety in Your Relationship examines the most common manifestations of anxiety in romantic relationships and offers simple strategies to break the destructive cycles of fear and insecurity.

Have you ever felt inexplicably drained, bewildered, and manipulated in a relationship? Your understanding of these feelings begins with Unmasking the Covert Female Narcissist, a critical guide that delves into the hidden world of covert female narcissists. Immersing listeners in exploring manipulative tactics, this book is a lighthouse in the fog of gaslighting, manipulation, and emotional abuse. It offers a clear view of the intricacies of a covert female narcissist's mind, exposing their cunning methods.

Loving Someone with Anxiety is one of the few books written specifically for the partners of people with anxiety disorders. You'll learn the importance of setting healthy boundaries, limiting codependent behaviors, and why taking over roles that make your partner anxious - such as answering the phone, driving, or doing the grocery shopping because your partner feels too anxious to be in public - can be extremely damaging for the both of you.

If you were brought up in the Western world, you've been trained on fairy tales of love and relationships that are misleading at best, and at worst have you making mistake after mistake in starting relationships with the wrong kinds of people who will waste your time and keep you from finding a loyal partner. Science has the answer! Or at least a guide to save you the time and effort of discovering for yourself how many wrong types of romantic partners there are.

Sparring with Love: A Humorous Guide to Arguing with Your Partner Without Packing Your Bags is here to show you how. Packed with practical advice and plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, this book helps you navigate the quirks, conflicts, and chaos of real relationships. It’s not about avoiding fights—it’s about fighting smarter, reconnecting faster, and laughing through it all.

Sexual addictions and compulsive sexual behavior are growing societal problems, with as many as three to six percent of the world population affected. Your Sexually Addicted Partner shatters the stigma and shame that millions of men and women carry when their partners are sexually addicted. They receive little empathy for their pain, which means they suffer alone, often shocked and isolated by the trauma.

Monique, the daughter of San Diego Chargers football great Earl Faison, married her high school sweetheart soon after she discovered she was pregnant with his child. Her relationship with Chris was shaky from the start, but turned tumultuous as he became verbally and physically abusive. When she could no longer put up with the abuse, she left him with their children. That was when the stalking and genuine threats began. Nothing stopped him - not protection injunctions, police warnings, or even arrests. One fateful Monday morning, Chris kidnapped Monique....

I suffered at the hands of a malignant narcissist for seven years. I was emotionally tortured by his nasty, venomous words, his hateful behavior towards me and his sadistic enjoyment of anything that upset me. For years I was under his control, beaten down to the point where I had no perception of reality. I was a shell of a human. I wrote this book for anyone else who is suffering at the hands of a malignant narcissist. I want to offer not only healing words but also guide you through understanding the disorder in order to better help you deal with it.

En este best seller internacional, el Dr. Gary Chapman revela cómo las personas expresan su amor en diferentes maneras. De hecho, hay cinco idiomas específicos del amor. Tiempo de calidad. Palabras de afirmación. Obsequios. Actos de servicio. Contacto físico. Lo que para ti dice mil cosas, podría ser un gesto sin sentido para tu pareja. Pero aquí, por fin, está la clave para comprender las necesidades únicas de nuestra otra mitad.

Leslie Morgan Steiner met the love of her life at age 22, soon after graduating from Harvard and starting her first job at Seventeen magazine in New York. She fell for his self-deprecating wit and street smarts - and especially his unabashed worship of her. They married and spent four years together. At first Leslie felt like the woman of his dreams. Then she discovered her husband had been beaten as a child, taught by his parents that intimacy and rage danced together.