The Power of a Partner: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Gay and Lesbian Relationships

This book is filled with thought-provoking guidance and soul-searching wisdom. Having previously addressed issues of self-esteem and emotional well-being in the gay and lesbian community in Empowering the Tribe, Dr. Pimental-Habib now provides gay men and lesbians with a blueprint for forming and cultivating meaningful and long-lasting relationships of all varieties. Using real-life relationships as examples, The Power of a Partner illustrates the importance and value of healthy relationships with family, friends, and lovers. The book’s in-depth exploration of various relationships focuses on:

-Love, lust, and healthy commitments
-Why we choose who we choose
-Working through the grief of a breakup
-Successful strategies of long-term relationships
-Tips for healthy open relationships
-Coping with the ex
-Nurturing all your friendships
-Dealing with family relationships
-Improving the quality of your love relationships
-Learning to love yourself as a foundation for loving others

Whether you want to learn how to relate better to siblings or coworkers, sex-partners or friends, Dr. Pimental-Habib’s warm and enlightening approach will help you secure the greatest emotional, physical, and spiritual satisfaction possible.

Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2002