Drawing from extensive clinical experience and research, this comprehensive guide offers practical advice tailored specifically to the unique needs of women partnering with women. The second edition expands its scope to tackle crucial relationship milestones and challenges, including communication strategies, balancing autonomy with intimacy, managing finances, and navigating conflict. Clunis and Green provide essential frameworks for understanding identity dynamics like butch-femme roles, bisexuality, and transgender identity within relationships, while also offering vital guidance on intersectional factors such as race, class, age gaps, and parenting.
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| ISBN: 9781878067371 |
| Subtitle: Creating Healthy Relationships For The ’90s |
| Genre: Relationships |
| Subject(s): Interpersonal relations; Lesbian couples; Lesbian Couples/ United States; Lesbians/ United States/ Life Skills Guides |
| Publication Date: 1993-09-27 |
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| Publisher: Da Capo Press |
| Language: English |
| Format: Paperback |
| Pages: 259 |
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| Notes: Lesbian Couples: A Guide to Creating Healthy Relationships (originally published in 1988, with a revised second edition in 1993) is a foundational non-fiction self-help guide written by experienced psychotherapists D. Merilee Clunis and G. Dorsey Green. The text explicitly chronicles and analyzes the unique psychological, emotional, and social dynamics of female same-sex relationships, making it a staple of queer counseling literature. |
| Book_ID: 107969 |