Love Between Men: Enhancing Intimacy and Resolving Conflicts in Gay Relationships

By Rik Isensee

Book Overview

Read this book if you'd like to improve your relationship and communicate better with your boyfriend, lover, or even your next date You'll learn how to resolve conflicts instead of escalating or retaliating, enhancing the sense of intimacy and love that brought you together in the first place. "LOVE BETWEEN MEN is a treasure...Isensee condenses years of clinical expertise of working with gay couples and translates this into a volume that is chock-full of enormously helpful and practical ways for men to look at, understand, and improve their relationships. It is bound to become a classic." --Michael Shernoff, ACSW "...a valid guide to establishing closer, more enduring partnerships...fills a gap in the resources available to couples." --K. Orton Williams, San Francisco Sentinel "...there is meat on these bones; material that any person in a relationship, or considering/fearing one, can learn from.... Isensee's insights are solid and his chapter on abusive relationships is the sort of material rarely discussed within the gay community. And his summation chapters, which include the awful thought of 'What If It Doesn't Work Out?, ' are astute." --Dale Reynolds, Lambda Book Report "This is a practical, down-to-earth manual for men who live in intimate relationships and want to improve them.... This book does more than help couples solve complicated interpersonal problems--it helps them to avoid them." --Harvey L. Gochros, D.S.W., professor, School of Social Work, University of Hawaii "lsensee explores gay male relationships by examining the difficulty of maintaining successful male-male bondings in a hostile, homophobic society. He discusses problems unique to homosexual relationships.... A helpful book." --Library Journal "A welcome addition to practical gay literature." --Booklist

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625361874
• ISBN13: 9781625361875
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Rik Isensee
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Cuts Through the Challenges of Relationships

"Author and licensed clinical social worker Rik Isensee cuts through the challenges of relationships and demonstrates ways to solve the everyday conflicts that arise in our relationships. He shows us how we can better communicate with our partners to satisfy each other's emotional and sexual needs. This book does more than help couples solve complicated interpersonal problems, it helps them to avoid them."--© zebraz

Excellent Information

I read this book when I got involved with my first "serious" relationship after coming out. That was eight years ago and we are still going strong. I am not going to say that this book helped us stay together all these years, but it was the first resource I could read in order to understand how to make sense of my relationship.

good reading

this book is actually cool to read, if you need some insight and can't find it on your own this book can probably help.

Good advice that you would maybe get from your parents.

I found this book to very informative and insightful. However I thought that some of the dialougue was hokey. There are alot of different siuations covered from intimacy to loosing your lover to AIDS. If you have ever wondered why you say some of the stupid things you say, this book may hold some answers for you. It has helped my lover and I tremendously. We have learned how to communicate, and work through our differences without arguing.