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One out of every two modern marriages ends in divorce, and 75 percent of those divorces are initiated by wives. Author Ashton Applewhite is one of these women, having sued for divorce after enduring an unfulfilling 10-year marriage. Cutting Loose is an essential resource for women who want to leave their marriage but fear the consequences. Shattering the media-generated image of the lonely, deprived, and financially strapped divorcee, Applewhite provides a much needed reality check. Cutting Loose introduces 50 women, varying in age, race, class, and predicament, who have thrived after initiating their own divorces.

Ever wondered how the very smart, sophisticated, talented and well-educated woman who is a high flyer in her career, leads a vast team including top ranking men at the work place and is a major decision maker in her industry can make the worst mistakes and decisions when it comes to relationship and marriage, all in the name of love? In this book, “7 Things I Badly want to Tell Women”, Pastor Kingsley Okonkwo, penned down very salient points to help ladies make sound decisions and be as successful in their relationships as they are in their careers.

The qualities that men love and look for in a woman while on a date will be very, very different from the qualities women want and desire most in a man. Unfortunately, it's this lack of knowledge regarding these differences that tends to confuse and trip many women up during those first few dates. If you don't know what men want and what makes them feel love-smitten on a date, then you might find yourself struggling to connect with quality men and unable to keep them interested in you.

Post “yes dear”, post radical feminism, post #metoo, is a blank canvas for those ready to live and love in a new paradigm of womanhood. But what does that look like? In this highly astute narrative is a new mode of relating to ourselves and our world as women.

The first year of marriage is the most important. It forms the habits - good and bad - that will define the rest of your married life. Make that first year the best it can be.

How hard can it be to NOT sleep with your billionaire CEO boss? Apparently harder than expected while living with this strong and hot AF nightmare as his fake wife… This abrasive silver streaked CEO was supposed to be just any other client for me to whip into shape. Giving him a fake wife was my PR Hail Mary to fix his public image, and it wasn’t supposed to be me. But as a single mom, I couldn’t turn down the huge paycheck on offer. Now, as I try to hide my chaotic past and shield my precious reality from him, The kind things he does for me and his witty, playful side melt my heart. ...

More than 20 years ago, sociologist and University of California, Berkeley, professor Arlie Hochschild set off a tidal wave of conversation and controversy with her best-selling book, The Second Shift. In it, she examined what really happens in dual-career households. Adding together time in paid work, child care, and housework, she found that working mothers put in a month of work a year more than their spouses.

As long as she can remember, Leah has had the mysterious feeling that she's searching for a twin - that she belongs as one of an intimate pair. It begins with friends, dance partners, and her own reflection in the mirror as she studies ballet growing up; continues with physical and emotional attractions to girlfriends in college; and leads her, finally, to Eric, whom she moves across the country for and marries. But her steadfast, monogamous relationship leaves her with questions she can't answer about her sexuality and her identity, so she and her husband decide to try an open marriage.

Welcome to a heartfelt look at the growing phenomenon of Latino Men and Black Women (LMBW) relationships. This emerging movement highlights the increasing number of couples from these backgrounds coming together in love, and it’s a celebration of the beautiful, evolving landscape of modern romance. The LMBW community fosters a welcoming and supportive environment where people find meaningful connections and build serious, loving relationships. It’s a space where the joys of diversity are embraced and where couples celebrate their unique blend of backgrounds. Latino men and Black women ...

Do you find yourself single month after month, and year after year? Do you desire to be married but choose to wait on God to bring you marriage? Do you find yourself frustrated with your season of singleness? Single Yesterday and Still Single Today will help you find encouragement on your journey to marriage. This 60-day devotional is written to help those women who desire marriage but still find themselves single. No matter what you see on the outside, every single woman can use just a little more encouragement. With raw, honest and vulnerable devotions, Single Yesterday and Still Single ...

Don’t believe the alarmist hype, advises top relationship therapist Dr. Sonya Rhodes. Today’s Alpha women - ambitious, self-assured, and hardworking - aren’t going to end up lonely spinsters. They don’t have to settle for Mr. Good Enough. Echoing Sheryl Sandberg’s powerful message, The Alpha Woman Meets Her Match shares the secret necessary to triumph in love and work: Find the right partner. It can be done - and Dr. Rhodes has the tools to help.

Currie is well-known as the very first professional dating coach in what is now known as the "Manosphere" to encourage single heterosexual men to use upfront, specific, and straightforwardly honest verbal communication methods (otherwise known informally as "direct verbal game") as a means of quickly identifying women who possess sexually duplicitous tendencies and/or highly manipulative and materialistic desires with men.

Our story begins on an ordinary Monday afternoon in the life of 53-year-old Jen Mann, as she’s sitting with her lifelong best friend Cate at the local coffee shop, where they meet weekly for the comfort of a warm drink and quality time together. But on this particular Monday, Jen is distracted, unable to shake the malaise of being middle-aged and irrelevant, having almost adult children who no longer need her and a husband who seems to have grown bored with her. Then, from out of the blue, she receives a message from the great love of her life, her Italian boyfriend Luca from 30 years ago...

Starring quarterback. Lacrosse team captain. Ripped muscles from head to toe. In high school, he was only a jock with a pretty face. Nothing more, nothing less. Ok? Then why did I volunteer to pose as Dune’s fake fiancé? I convinced myself it was just to help an old acquaintance. He needed to sell a story to the judge. Keeping his niece safe was Dune’s first priority. And he promised to save me from my creepy biological father. So, I agreed to move into his mansion. Only for the sake of our story and my protection, right? Well, maybe, that’s not all. The fake fiancé shtick had ...

Can guys and girls ever be just friends? According to Audrey Tate and Clarke West, absolutely. After all, they’ve been best friends since childhood without a single romantic entanglement. Clarke is the charming playboy Audrey can always count on, and he knows that the ever-loyal Audrey will never not play along with his strategy for dodging his matchmaking mother — announcing he’s already engaged…to Audrey.

When The Dance of Deception was published, Lerner discovered that women were not eager to identify with the subject. "Well, I don't do deception" was a common response. We all "do deception", often with the intention to protect ourselves and the relationships we depend on. The Dance of Deception unravels the ways (and whys) that women show the false and hide the real - even to our own selves. We see how relationships are affected by lying and faking, by silence and pretending and by brave - but misguided - efforts to tell the truth.

Are you tired of wasting time on relationships that don’t align with your values? Do you feel like you keep attracting the wrong men, despite doing the inner work? Drawn to You is the book that will transform how you date, love, and prepare for the partner you truly deserve. In this deeply personal and faith-based guide, businesswoman, professor, and life coach Jenefeness Franke shares her powerful journey of healing, self-discovery, and intentional manifestation. After two divorces, she knew she had to approach love differently.

Her sisters have found wedded bliss with their wealthy, wonderful dream men, but not Julietta Conte. She's stayed on terra firma as top executive of the family's corporation, La Dolce Famiglia bakery. Work is her passion, and her trendy Milan apartment her sanctuary... until Sawyer Wells, a masculine masterpiece in a suit, lures her out of hiding with an irresistible offer: an exclusive partnership with his international chain of boutique hotels.

In her trademark "tell-it-like-it-is" style comes a bold new book from relationship coach Suzanne Venker, who blames feminists for destroying the relationship between the sexes by insisting men and women become "equal", as in the same. Suzanne and her coauthor John M. Townsend, PhD, free women from the equality meme and embolden them to embrace the way men and women are naturally wired.

Self-deprecating and with an acerbic wit, TikTok star Clara Batten aka @rabatts is every middle-class mother trying to get through the day without another sh*t on the staircase or panic drive to McDonald’s. In Gin and Phonics, she talks candidly about the ups, downs and hilarious reality of trying to parent two small people and fulfil her lifelong dream of becoming an actress without losing her bl**dy mind.