Love Matters: A Book of Lesbian Romance
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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
The book contains color illustrations.
Synopsis
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
Booknews
Sutton, psychotherapist and columnist in the Colorado Springs lesbian newspaper , reprints her challenging but humorous advice columns, addressing an array of love-related issues from keeping sex lively in a long-term relationship to handling money issues. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)