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Sex, Intimacy, and Being Gay

By J Nelson Aviance — 2014

Sex seems central to intimate and romantic relationships. If it is a means of intimate communication, and communication is the secret to a lasting and healthy relationship, why don’t we gay men talk about it that way more often?

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The Real Problem with Sexual Withholding in a Marriage

The problem with sexual withholding in a marriage has far less to do with actually having or not having sex and much more to do with misunderstanding.

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Suzanne Phillips
2015
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Withholding: A Personal Story

Are you sometimes aware of holding yourself back from being fully engaged in the experience of the moment? Do you find yourself avoiding activities that bring you pleasure or friends you enjoy spending time with?

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Naomi Firestone
2013
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How Withholding Can Lead to Divorce

Withholding, what is it? Well it is a defined as an emotionally abusive behavior or tactic, a form of denying, refusing to communicate or do something for your partner as a punishment.

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Tiffany Beverlin
2017
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“Withholders” vs. “Conceders”: A Damaging Conflict Pattern

Relationship dances between these two types can become very complicated.

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Randi Gunther
2018
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The Art of Listening: An Interview with Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt

1440: Is it true that on the whole we're not very good listeners? Harville: In the resting state, when we're not distracted, the research shows we have a 13–18% accuracy rate.

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Jenn Brown
2019
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Exclusive Interview with Relationship Expert Harville Hendrix

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., one of North America's leading authorities on communication and relationships, talks about why we fall in and out of love; how to heal yourself after a divorce; and how to talk -- and listen -- powerfully.

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Diana Shepherd
2019
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36 Questions for Intimacy, Back Story

The basis of the 36 questions is that back-and-forth self-disclosure . . . is consistently linked with coming to like the other person you do this with.

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Elaine Aron
2015
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Relationship Epidemic: Shutting Out Body Wisdom

Most of us struggle at one time or another with an inability to feel what’s going on inside us at the level of emotion and energy flow. The technical term for this problem is “alexithymia.”

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Kathlyn Hendricks, Gay Hendricks
2010
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Relationship Intelligence: The Key to Picking a Life Partner

For over two decades, I have worked with men and women from around the world to help them improve their relationships.

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Mark Wolynn
2013
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My Friend Is Dating Someone Terrible, Or, Secrets of the Darth Vader Boyfriend

You can’t talk someone out of being in love with Darth Vader, and sadly, the worse it gets the more your friend might try to talk himself into trying to make it work because if there is a happy ending all the ways he’s had to abase himself to stay in the relationship will have been “worth it.

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Jennifer Peepas
2011
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