It Doesn't Have To Be So Hard: Secrets to Finding & Keeping Intimacy

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We can't get enough of doomed lovers separated by betrayal, taboo and violence - as long as they stay on the screen or the page. In our own beds we want the Hollywood ending. But despite the hype, relationships are tumbling like a proverbial rockfall. Divorce statistics tell us that while people may believe in love more than ever, they give up on it more easily. Love, it seems, has become an extreme endurance sport. Through well-crafted stories that are moving, funny, engaging and all too familiar, Joanne Fedler and Graeme Friedman use their years of personal and professional experience to address the toughest of questions around intimacy such as: Why can't men do intimacy without sex Why don't women understand that sex is intimacy Is staying in an unhappy relationship better than being alone Is there such thing as lasting passion It Doesn't Have to be So Hard will change the way you see your own relationship forever. You will gain new perspectives on how you can truly find and keep intimacy - it really doesn't need to be so hard!

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Many readers will recognize characteristics of their own flawed relationships in these hypothetical vignettes, which serves the underlying premise of the book: that the feelings and behaviors which arise are universal, but how they are solved within each relationship is unique...even the most secure of couples will benefit from reading this offering. --Publishers Weekly

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Graeme Friedman (Author) Graeme Friedman is the author of two non-fiction books, various short stories, and a novel, The Fossil Artist (shortlisted for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers Prize). He has practised as a clinical psychologist for over 25 years. Joanne Fedler (Author) Joanne Fedler is a full-time mother and writer, former law lecturer and advocate for women's rights. She is the author of six books and the co-founder of Moonstone Media. She grew up in Johannesburg and now lives with her husband and two children in Sydney.