Product Description: With the prominence of one-name couples (Brangelina, Kimye) and famous families (the Smiths, the Beckhams), it is becoming increasingly clear that celebrity is no longer an individual pursuit-if it ever was. Accordingly, First Comes Love explores celebrity kinship and the phenomenon of the power couple: those relationships where two stars come together and where their individual identities as celebrities become inseparable from their status as a famous twosome...read more

Product Description: Living in sin isn't what it used to be. Nowadays, shacking up is almost a rite of passage;couples are living together now more than ever. The question is, are they any good at it? Or will you be any good at it? Whether you're in a live-in relationship or about to be in one, Tiffany Current's How to Move In with Your Boyfriend (and Not Break Up with Him) aims to help you stay smart and happy along the road to live-in bliss...read more

Product Description: Why not cohabitate?Many believe nothing is better for their future marriage than a trial period—cohabitation. It’s the fastest growing family type in the U.S. So how’s that working out? Are people truly happier?Author Glenn Stanton offers a compelling factual case that nearly every area of health and happiness is increased by marriage and decreased by cohabitation...read more

Product Description: Quiz: Are You “A Little Bit Married”? We’ve been dating for more than a year. I talk on the phone with his parents. We go on vacations with each other’s families. We’re planning to live together (or already do). I often wonder, “Where is this going?” Do I just wait around? How can I be sure this person is really “The One”? If this sounds familiar, you are not alone...read more

Product Description: As unmarried parents, you face many unique legal, financial, and child-rearing challenges that married couples do not. How do I explain this situation to my child? Can I leave the paternity or maternity section blank on a birth certificate? How much do I need to tell my child's teacher? Award-winning author and attorney Brette McWhorter Sember provides real-life scenarios and resources to help guide you through the myriad issues that face unmarried singles and couples today...read more

This book is written by Will Henry. The best secret agent the South had was L L Henderson. She was also a beautiful woman and a counterspy for the Union army. Her men were dangerous hard cases: hired guns, drunks, drifters, a murderous freed slave and the sweet-talker who was her lover. They set out to win the Civil War by sealing of California and her gold. But they hadn't reckoned with Mangas Coloradas, 'Red Sleeves', the Apache chieftain. When his warriors sprung their ambush trap, the race for death was on. Then, they knew they must reach Mimbres Springs - or never see sunrise.

This book helps couples move beneath their surface differences in order to recognize this basic truth; in any committed relationship, both partners are the same-absolutely equal in their capacity for love and intimacy.

A helpful manual for young women explains how to negotiate the trials and tribulations, as well as the emotional, financial, and legal issues, of living together outside of marriage, providing a wealth of hands-on advice from experts in a variety of fields, as well as true-life stories from couples about their own experiences. Original.

Provides advice for unmarried couples who are planning on cohabitating includes advice on how to keep the relationship from becoming mundane and etiquette for living together in harmony. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The Ties That Bindwas organized to review and assess the scientific evidence about the causes of trends in marriage and other forms of intimate unions. The contributors address these two questions: What do we know about the factors that influence the formation of marriages and other intimate unions, the timing of union formation, and the forms that unions take? What factors explain the dramatic changes in union formation we have observed over recent decades? Edited by Linda J...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Looks at the pros and cons of an unwed, live-in relationship with advice on finances and establishing space, boundaries, and privacy, and describes a variety of living-together relationships

Product Description: A book used for the "Home and Family Studies" course at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. LDS friendly, it offers checklists, analyses, inventories, ledgers, tips, charts, steps, techniques, Q&As, and much more to help engaged or married couples plan for and enjoy a successful marriage...read more

Product Description: This book evolved from years of practice of a psychotherapist treating hundreds of individuals and couples. After several years, Dr. Brissie began to notice patterns in the problems of couples and devised a theory as to why relationships fail and developed solutions which proved successful in her practice...read more

Product Description: Harry Sommers know his way around. Ex-boxer, ex-bouncer, ex-con, he's now running a private detective agency - and he's got the kind of credentials respected in the underworld!

A distinguished therapist, offering advice on achieving more satisfying relationships, explains how a couple's unspoken, unwritten contracts consisting of each partner's set of expectations and desires, leads to conflict, disappointment, and anger

Examines the contemporary search for committed, stable relationships through cohabitation, group marriage, and other alternatives to traditional marriage

Sociologists, psychologists, and family therapists discuss traditional monogamous marriage, alternative avenues to intimacy such as open and group marriage, and the influence of changing life-styles on and the future of intimate relationships