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The Relationship Manifesto is a must-read for anyone in, out of, or looking for a relationship. It is simply the most open, honest and radical book on modern love and sex that you’ll read. But to be honest it has had to break all the rules on writing about relationships. Most relationship ‘self-help’ books want to sell you the myths, not the reality. They want to pander to your desire for ‘Happy Ever After’. And they package the message in such a way that it leaves you feeling more like a ‘failure’ than ever before when things don’t work out. And with half of all marriages now ending in divorce or separation ‘not working out’ is a high probability.
The Relationship Manifesto recognises you are smart not gullible. It treats you like an intelligent, experienced adult, not an innocent teenager. The book appreciates you are often struggling to deal with the expectations of ‘Happy Ever After’ that come with big loves. It knows you get deeply confused about your sexual and love feelings. And it accepts that too often you look back on past loves and relationships as ‘failures’
One of the first rules of The Relationship Manifesto is to disregard the word ‘failure’ altogether. When it comes to relationships, there is no failure, only experience.
The second rule of The Relationship Manifesto is to recognise that you are the key to your love happiness, no one else. Love yourself first, others second. To give love we must first have it within us to give.
This SMART GUIDE to modern love, sex and relationships;
1.Exposes the Ten Love Myths that stop us from reaching our true relationship potential.
2.Describes the Three Types of Love (‘Wishful’, ‘Consensus’ and ‘Soulmate’) that most of us experience at some point in our lives.
3.Explains the Five Types of Relationships (‘Draining’, ‘Full-Love’, ‘Changing’, ‘Peripheral’ and ‘Functional’) that we can experience on our life’s love journey.
4.Reveals the Three Main Types of Men (‘Resisters’, ‘Acceptors’, ‘Confused’) now apparent in modern society and explains how each type responds to women, love and relationships.
5.Provides you with the 15 Relationship Promises guaranteed to ensure your relationship will last as long as you want it to.
6. Details the 12 Aspects of Togetherness that go into every love relationship and gives excellent practical advice on how to keep that feeling of togetherness continuing for as long as possible.
7.Identifies the 10 Core Truths to all relationships
8.Reveals that we are now in a ‘post-marriage society’ and that the only way to save marriage is to change it…..
9.….and the most radical way to change marriage is to give couples the option of taking out renewable 10 Year Relationship Vows.
The Relationship Manifesto explains how fundamentally women have changed over the past five decades and precisely what this means for all types of sex and love relationships. Illustrated by over thirty, at times explicit, case studies from around the world, the book takes you on an excursion into swinging lifestyles; sex work; open marriages; sex and ageing; sex between generations; intersexuality; ladyboys; polyamorous relationships; infidelity; gay, bi and lesbian sexualities. The book uses these real-life case studies and three decades of research into gender, sexuality and identity to highlight how love, sex and relationships are radically changing at this point in history with traditional values having to make way for modern lifestyles, not just in the West but worldwide.
The author, Dr Stephen Whitehead, is an internationally renowned academic, writer and researcher into gender, sexuality, identity and relationships. The Relationship Manifesto is Dr Whitehead’s 10th book. Other books include:
‘Men and Masculinities’ (Polity)
‘The Many Faces of Men’ (Random House)
‘The 16 Faces of Women’ (Andrews)
‘The Masculinities Reader’ (Polity)
‘Men and Masculinities’ (Routledge)
‘Men, Women, Love and Romance’ (Andrews)
Blog http://relationshipmanifesto.posterous.com
The Relationship Manifesto recognises you are smart not gullible. It treats you like an intelligent, experienced adult, not an innocent teenager. The book appreciates you are often struggling to deal with the expectations of ‘Happy Ever After’ that come with big loves. It knows you get deeply confused about your sexual and love feelings. And it accepts that too often you look back on past loves and relationships as ‘failures’
One of the first rules of The Relationship Manifesto is to disregard the word ‘failure’ altogether. When it comes to relationships, there is no failure, only experience.
The second rule of The Relationship Manifesto is to recognise that you are the key to your love happiness, no one else. Love yourself first, others second. To give love we must first have it within us to give.
This SMART GUIDE to modern love, sex and relationships;
1.Exposes the Ten Love Myths that stop us from reaching our true relationship potential.
2.Describes the Three Types of Love (‘Wishful’, ‘Consensus’ and ‘Soulmate’) that most of us experience at some point in our lives.
3.Explains the Five Types of Relationships (‘Draining’, ‘Full-Love’, ‘Changing’, ‘Peripheral’ and ‘Functional’) that we can experience on our life’s love journey.
4.Reveals the Three Main Types of Men (‘Resisters’, ‘Acceptors’, ‘Confused’) now apparent in modern society and explains how each type responds to women, love and relationships.
5.Provides you with the 15 Relationship Promises guaranteed to ensure your relationship will last as long as you want it to.
6. Details the 12 Aspects of Togetherness that go into every love relationship and gives excellent practical advice on how to keep that feeling of togetherness continuing for as long as possible.
7.Identifies the 10 Core Truths to all relationships
8.Reveals that we are now in a ‘post-marriage society’ and that the only way to save marriage is to change it…..
9.….and the most radical way to change marriage is to give couples the option of taking out renewable 10 Year Relationship Vows.
The Relationship Manifesto explains how fundamentally women have changed over the past five decades and precisely what this means for all types of sex and love relationships. Illustrated by over thirty, at times explicit, case studies from around the world, the book takes you on an excursion into swinging lifestyles; sex work; open marriages; sex and ageing; sex between generations; intersexuality; ladyboys; polyamorous relationships; infidelity; gay, bi and lesbian sexualities. The book uses these real-life case studies and three decades of research into gender, sexuality and identity to highlight how love, sex and relationships are radically changing at this point in history with traditional values having to make way for modern lifestyles, not just in the West but worldwide.
The author, Dr Stephen Whitehead, is an internationally renowned academic, writer and researcher into gender, sexuality, identity and relationships. The Relationship Manifesto is Dr Whitehead’s 10th book. Other books include:
‘Men and Masculinities’ (Polity)
‘The Many Faces of Men’ (Random House)
‘The 16 Faces of Women’ (Andrews)
‘The Masculinities Reader’ (Polity)
‘Men and Masculinities’ (Routledge)
‘Men, Women, Love and Romance’ (Andrews)
Blog http://relationshipmanifesto.posterous.com
