Gay Relationships [Mass Market Paperback]

Tina B. Tessina (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 13, 2003

Here is a step-by-step guide to making relationships work for America's more than twenty million gay men and women. Written in a warm, direct style, this book is leavened with humor and filled with anecdotes and examples drawn from the lives of the author's clients and friends.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Lesbians and gay men face unique challenges in forming and sustaining intimate personal relationships. The pervasive prejudice and hostility they confront and the lack of supportive familial, religious, and social systems pose problems that are radically different from those experienced by heterosexuals. Therapist Tessina offers a genuinely useful self-help guide intended to assist gay people in clarifying the issues and resolving their difficulties in a manner conducive to the creation and sustenance of satisfying personal relationships. Any library with similar titles for its heterosexual patrons should certainly make this one available to its gay public.
- James Michael MacLeod, Library of Congress
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Tarcher (October 13, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0874775663
• ISBN-13: 978-0874775662
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,733,886 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D. http://www.tinatessina.com is a licensed psychotherapist in S. California, with over 30 years experience in counseling individuals and couples and author of 13 books, including It Ends With You: Grow Up and Out of Dysfunction (New Page); How to Be a Couple and Still Be Free (New Page); The Unofficial Guide to Dating Again (Wiley) and The Real 13th Step: Discovering Self-Confidence, Self-Reliance and Independence Beyond the Twelve Step Programs (New Page.) Her newest books, out from Adams Press in 2008: Money, S*x and Kids: Stop Fighting About the Three Things That Can Ruin Your Marriage and Commuter Marriage. She publishes Happiness Tips from Tina, an e-mail newsletter, and the 'Dr. Romance Blog' http://drromance.typepad.com/dr_romance_blog/

She is an online expert, answering relationship questions at Divorce360.com and Yahoo!Personals, as well as a Redbook Love Network expert and 'Psychology Smarts' columnist for First for Women.Dr. Tessina guests frequently on radio, and on such TV shows as 'Oprah', 'Larry King Live' and ABC news. Follow her at twitter.com/tinatessina. Facebook: www.facebook.com/tinatessina

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful Again and Again Thru My Life, December 19, 2011

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Leo (florida, usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gay Relationships (Paperback)

Gay RelationshipsI first bought your book on gay relationships in the nineties. I read it and re-read it. I have kept it as a reference guide, sort like a friend with GREAT ideas & understanding about being gay and being in love, involved with another man, how to keep the trust and joy with us.

5.0 out of 5 stars What the experts say about Gay Relationships for Men and Women, 2nd Ed., March 14, 2008

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Tina B. Tessina "Dr. Romance" (Long Beach, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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"Tina Tessina has made a significant step forward with the publication of Gay Relationships. I t provides an important service to the lesbian and gay community... Heterosexuals would be so lucky to have such a compendium of information. Highly recommended reading." -Edge Magazine

"A valuable, Helpful book filled with enlightening information" Seattle Gay News

"For same-sex couples who have always had to mentally revise heterosexually oriented relationship material, finally here is a book addressed to you, and one worth waiting for. Tina Tessina has written a first-rate how-to manual... This book is superbly simple, clearly and sensitively written."
-- Isadora Alman, San Francisco Bay Guardian

"Dr. Tessina displays a genuine introspection about gay and lesbian relationships. Her concern is not only with the formulation of such relationships, but also with providing practical information on long-term maintenance of the relationship once it occurs."
--Rick Schroeder and John Morgan
Founders and Chaircouple, Couples National Network

"If you are interested in how to come out at work, the dynamics of living together, or the pros and cons of almost every decision you will face as a gay person in a relationship, Dr. Tessina
addresses those issues with balance and love in this straight- talking, practical, caring primer."
--Dr. Warren Farrell author, Why Men Are the Way They Are

"A useful compendium of practical, straightforward advice. A valuable book for clients and therapists alike." Linda De Villers, past President, The Society for the Scientific Study of Sex