Eight Dates: Essential Conversations For A Lifetime Of Love by John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman

Strengthen and deepen your love with a fun, ingenious program of eight life-changing conversations on essential topics such as money, sex, and trust, from two of the world's leading marriage researchers and clinicians.

Designer Relationships: A Guide To Happy Monogamy, Positive Polyamory, And Optimistic Open Relationships by Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson

Contemporary relationships are in a state of rapid evolution. These changes can and should empower people with the opportunity to develop partnerships based on their own sexualities, understandings, and agreements. The possibilities are limitless, and thinking about a partnership as something people can craft allows for flexibility and change. This book explains exactly how you and your loved ones can design your own life and love.

The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage For Skeptics, Realists, And Rebels by Susan Pease Gadoua and Vicki Larson

In The New I Do, therapist Susan Pease Gadoua and journalist Vicki Larson take a groundbreaking look at the modern shape of marriage to help readers open their minds to marrying more consciously and creatively. Offering actual models of less-traditional marriages, including everything from a parenting marriage (intended for the sake of raising and nurturing children) to a comfort or safety marriage (where people marry for financial security or companionship), the book covers unique options for couples interested in forging their own paths.

Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations For A Lifetime Of Love by Dr. Sue Johnson

Dr. Johnson teaches that the way to enhance or save a relationship is to be open, attuned, and responsive to each other and to reestablish emotional connection. With this in mind, she focuses on key moments in a relationship and uses them as touch points for seven healing conversations.

Also available as an audiobook.

A Happy Life In An Open Relationship by Susan Wenzel

For anyone curious about open relationships, here is a valuable handbook from an expert in love, sex, and communication. Relationship therapist Susan Wenzel--who is in an open marriage herself--delivers skillful advice on how to navigate the complex emotional landscape of multi-partner relationships, from polyamory to swinging.

Friendship In The Age Of Loneliness: An Optimist's Guide To Connection by Smiley Poswolsky

After a year of social distancing and lockdown measures during the pandemic, it's more clear than ever that our friendships and social bonds are vital to our health and happiness. This refreshing, positive guide helps you take care of your people and form deep connections in the digital age.

Playing Without A Partner: A Single's Guide To Sex, Dating, And Happiness by Megan Stubbs

Sexologist and relationships expert Megan Stubbs is here to kill the stigma attached to single lifestyles, and provide advice on how to not only embrace single sexuality, but make the most of the time while single. This is not an advice book on how to find a partner to cure what ails you - this book recognises that whether looking for a long-term partner, actively dating, or happily single, there can be difficult aspects to single sexuality. But there are also ways to optimise your pleasure, improve your interactions, feel sensual and erotic, and have an empowered sex life while still single.

Unf*ck Your Boundaries: Build Better Relationships Through Consent, Communication, And Expressing Your Needs by Faith G. Harper

Dr. Faith Harper offers a full understanding of issues of boundaries and consent, how we can communicate and listen more effectively, and how to survive and move on from situations where our boundaries are violated. Along the way, you'll learn when and how to effectively say "no" (and "yes"), troubleshoot conflict, and respect your own and others' boundaries like a pro.

Love And Freedom: Transcending Monogamy And Polyamory by Jorge N. Ferrer

This groundbreaking look at the array of styles and modes of relationships proposes a new paradigm for understanding intimate relationships, challenging the monogamy/polyamory binary and offering fresh possibilities for thinking about contemporary love, sex, gender, and sexuality, with entirely new implications for psychotherapy and counseling, social work, sex and sexuality education, practical ethics, and social justice activism.

Single On Purpose: Redefine Everything, Find Yourself First by John Kim

After a painful divorce, John Kim realized he had never truly been on his own. He went on a journey to rebuild his relationship with himself, going from alone and disconnected to alone and fulfilled. In this book he teaches you how to prioritize your relationship with yourself and live a more meaningful life, whether you're alone, dating, or with a partner.

More Than Two: A Practical Guide To Ethical Polyamory by Franklin Veaux and Eve Rickert

Can you love more than one person? Have multiple romantic partners, without jealousy or cheating? Absolutely! Polyamorous people have been paving the way, through trial and painful error. Here's a practical guide to ethical polyamory to help you find your own way.

All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces.