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This book brings hope and excitement as it gently unravels the mysteries and misunderstandings surrounding marital sex and helps couples-step-by-step-find the keys to their own secret garden. I highly recommend it.
–Diane Sollee, Director, Coalition for Marriage, Family, and Couples Education and smartmarriages.com
Rekindling Desire will prove indispensable for couples with low desire problems and will provide a helpful adjunct for working collaboratively in sex therapy.
–Peggy J. Kleinplatz, Ph.D., School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Canada, editor,New Directions in Sex Therapy
A sensitive practical book that most couples will find useful, written by gifted and respected clinicians, provides a wealth of information gathered from the professional experience of treating couples...
–Taylor Segraves, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry Case Western Reserve University, editor,Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy
...highlight[s] poignant stories of lost initimacy. Read it for a map of how to reunite with tender loving care.
–Lybi Ma, Psychology Today
Barry and Emily McCarthy bring rich experience and insight...Rekindling Desire makes a valuable contribution and provides therapists who use bibliotherapy with a practical and informative resource..
–Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, January 2004
–Diane Sollee, Director, Coalition for Marriage, Family, and Couples Education and smartmarriages.com
Rekindling Desire will prove indispensable for couples with low desire problems and will provide a helpful adjunct for working collaboratively in sex therapy.
–Peggy J. Kleinplatz, Ph.D., School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Canada, editor,New Directions in Sex Therapy
A sensitive practical book that most couples will find useful, written by gifted and respected clinicians, provides a wealth of information gathered from the professional experience of treating couples...
–Taylor Segraves, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry Case Western Reserve University, editor,Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy
...highlight[s] poignant stories of lost initimacy. Read it for a map of how to reunite with tender loving care.
–Lybi Ma, Psychology Today
Barry and Emily McCarthy bring rich experience and insight...Rekindling Desire makes a valuable contribution and provides therapists who use bibliotherapy with a practical and informative resource..
–Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, January 2004
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Is sex more work than play in your marriage? Do you schedule it in like a dentist appointment? Do you make love once a month, twice at the most?
If you answered yes to these questions, you are among the forty million Americans trapped in a low-sex or no-sex marriage.
Now there is help from nationally acclaimed sex and marital experts Barry and Emily McCarthy, who for years have helped couples break down the barriers that have developed between them, and rebuild closeness and longing. Their groundbreaking ten-step program is designed to get sex and intimacy back into these marriages and revitalize relationships. Crafted by years of clinical practice, Rekindling Desire first shows couples how to root out the "poisons" that inhibit sexual desire: shame, guilt, anger, passivity, as well as medical side effects and physical dysfunctions. With sensitivity and tact, the McCarthys then lay out concrete techniques and effective strategies that help couples increase sexual awareness, confront inhibitions, revitalize desire, and integrate intimacy and eroticism.
An exciting new way to spark and sustain desire, Rekindling Desire confronts the secrecy and stigma of low-sex and no-sex marriages, teaching couples how to enjoy a fulfilling, life-long sexual partnership.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A satisfied reader....,
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This review is from: Rekindling Desire: A Step-by-Step Program to Help Low-Sex and No-Sex Marriages (Paperback)
What a surprise to see that the reader from Kalamazoo was disappointed with this book .... Au contraire, I thought the authors did an excellent job of laying out reasons for lack of marital bliss between the sheets, and then presenting great step-by-step strategies and techniques for effecting change.There were many eye openers: * Good sex in a marriage contributes 15-20% of marital vitality. Bad sex contributes 50-70% of marital malaise. * Romantic love is inherently unstable usually ending before marriage or seldom lasting past the first year. * Sexual desire is based on emotional and sexual intimacy NOT on romantic love or passionate sex. * YOU are responsible for yourself as a sexual partner. It is NOT the job of the spouse to make you desirous or turn you on. * Good intentions are not enough. You need a PLAN to enhance your sexual relationship. The most successful strategy is a gradual step-by-step process. * The most powerful aphrodisiac is NOT an esoteric technique; it is an involved, aroused spouse...... The McCarthys did a fine job of differentiating "media hype" sex,(spontaneous,intense,nonverbal,passionate,perfect)from "real marital sex", (less than half of the time there is equal desire,arousal, orgasm and satisfaction). I also enjoyed learning about the poisons for sexual desire. It was a jolt to discover that sexual desire is SO easy to kill. I could go on about the merits of this book.... Suffice it to say; it was a great and informative read. I highly recommend it for all couples, but especially for those grappling with sexual concerns.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not for Me,
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This review is from: Rekindling Desire: A Step-by-Step Program to Help Low-Sex and No-Sex Marriages (Paperback)
I thought this book had good information and was quite helpful for the subject overall but a wee bit too clinical for what I was needing. What we really needed was a way to get out of the rut we were in which frankly made sex boring. We would both rather masturbate than just go through the motions. Fortunately a friend recommended 500 Lovemaking Tips which gave some creative and juicy tips that gave me the boost I needed.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Read Passionate Marriage instead,
By A Customer
This review is from: Rekindling Desire: A Step-by-Step Program to Help Low-Sex and No-Sex Marriages (Paperback)
I had read sex-starved marriage prior and there was very little new information that I learned in this book. The author definitely takes a much more clinical approach than Sex Starved Marriage but in the end he is basically saying the same thing - increase desire through more physical arousal. It's not a bad "introduction" to the subject and it (along with Sex Starved Marriage) will help couples when the low-desire partner is motivated to work on the problem. This is rarely the case.It wasn't until, I read Dr. Schnarch's Passionate Marriage that I discovered the "real" dynamics at play in our relationship. Passionate Marriage has a completely different approach to it. If you could only buy one book, I would recommend Passionate Marriage instead.
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