Love Matters: A Book of Lesbian Romance and Relationships

by Ellen Cole, Esther D Rothblum, Linda Sutton

Overview

Love Matters: A Book of Lesbian Romance and Relationships is a collection of advice columns and personal reflections that will help lesbian couples validate and appreciate their unique relationships. With excerpts taken from the author’s “Love Matters” column in the lesbian newspaper New Phazes, this book explores real-life questions and issues that lesbians have about dating, sex, love, and relationship longevity. From Love Matters, you’ll receive honest, informative advice that can help you and your partner share a more open and fulfilling relationship.Offering support, care, and understanding for lesbian couples, Love Matters seeks to recognize the “new female role” for lesbian women. Using her 15-year long relationship as a basis for many of the responses, the author provides you with suggestions and insight into topics relating to lesbian relationships, such as:

• keeping sex alive in a long-term relationship
• handling finances fairly and successfully
• supporting your partner through the physical, emotional, and spiritual changes caused by menopause
• identifying the difficulties of dating and what lesbians look for on a date
• questioning the purpose of and emotions caused by a long-distance relationship
• realizing how homophobia affects love and relationships

While focusing on the joys and experiences of couples, this book also addresses depression and loneliness felt by single lesbians, break-ups, and the death of a partner. You’ll find that Love Matters offers comfort, hope, and humor that will help you understand the difficulties and rewards of your lesbian relationship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317957744
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/29/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	206
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Linda Sutton, MA, is a feminist psychotherapist in private practice, educator, and consultant in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Throughout her career, she has lectured, written, lobbied, and advocated for issues of concern to women, children, and families. Ms. Sutton is the author and founder of the Love Matters column in the Colorado Springs lesbian newspaper New Phazes, and, with her partner, conducts Love Matters workshops on lesbian relationships.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 The Beginning; Chapter 2 Sex Lives; Chapter 3 Relationship Polarity; Chapter 4 Finances; Chapter 5 Breakup Rates; Chapter 6 Menopause; Chapter 7 Long-Distance Relationships; Chapter 8 Dating; Chapter 9 Forty Secrets for a Happy Relationship; Chapter 10 The Right Person; Chapter 11 How to Keep Love Alive; Chapter 12 Misery Side of Misery/Bliss Ratio; Chapter 13 Bliss Side of Misery/Bliss Ratio; Chapter 14 Play; Chapter 15 Anniversary Story; Chapter 16 Fair Fighting; Chapter 17 Death of a Partner; Chapter 18 Publication of; Love Matters; Chapter 19 Good Enough Relationship; Chapter 20 Jealousy; Chapter 21 Depression; Chapter 22 Solitude; Chapter 23 Mothering; Chapter 24 Singlehood; Chapter 25 Busyness; Chapter 26 Saying Good-Bye; Chapter 27 My Turn; Chapter 28 My So-Called Ending;