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Finding intimacy, passion, and Peace with a Man

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You love your husband. But sometimes it feels like you’re the only one trying. You remind. You plan. You make everything run smoothly- and yet the more effort you put in, the more distant it seems. In The Surrendered Wife, you’ll learn why when you stop trying to manage- and fix-things, your partner will lean in. The tender touches will return and he will help without your having to ask. Counterintuitive? Absolutely. Effective? Millions of women say yes. The Surrendered Wife equips you to: Say the simple phrases that inspire your husband to step up, bring back the man you … Continue reading Finding intimacy, passion, and Peace with a Man

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Underestimated, overlooked and shrewd

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Beverley, Elise and Margot are repressed housewives of convicted killers. During the sun-drenched summer of 1966, the three women form an unlikely alliance after the discoveries of their husbands’ brutal crimes. With the exes- some of California’s most notorious murders- dad or behind bars, they are attempting to forge a new future for themselves. These women got mad, frustrated with their prisons of domesticity, they busted out to wreak havoc on the men in their lives or anyone who dared to cross them.  After all, a housewife is, at her very core, a woman who has made sacrifices, by putting herself … Continue reading Underestimated, overlooked and shrewd

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World’s first Agony Aunt column about love, sex and relatonships

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The Athenian Mercury – a London-based broadsheet, one-page, two-sided periodical, brainchild of John Dunton, a printer, not a therapist whose main aim was to make money. Walking in a London park one day, it occurred to him that the (male) patrons of London’s fashionable coffee houses might like to gin up their intellectual discussions with questions posed to a panel of experts – just Dunton and his brothers-in-law- and would pay to see the answers. Published and advertised as “Resolving all the most Nice and Curious Questions Proposed by the ingenious of Either Sex”, in 1690s London which included the … Continue reading World’s first Agony Aunt column about love, sex and relatonships

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Humanity’s deepest desires, fears and hopes

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MacCulloch notes that for the vast majority of people throughout this history, marriage was a “contract between two men” that is between two fathers. And  that “When church weddings did start appearing, patchily, in the fourth century, the Church did not offer them to all the faithful”. Three categories of marriage emerged: the “Glorious ( imperial elite) , the “middle” ( imperial officers), and the “vile” (everyone else), with the vast majority of unions in the last category having no involvement from the Church at all. He rebukes contemporary Christians for asserting that there is a “Christian understanding of marriage” … Continue reading Humanity’s deepest desires, fears and hopes