Author: Victoria Leigh Gabriella
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499078706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
This is the story of a mature love relationship between a man and a woman in their mid 40s. Each of them has been a bit unlucky in love in the past and have almost given up hope of ever finding a real love. Becca Connelly is approximately 45 years old, gorgeous, and an elementary school teacher living in Williamsburg,Virginia. Tall, brown shoulder length hair, green eyes and feminine figure. She was deeply heartbroken when her marriage ended and has not seen or heard from her ex-husband Tripp in fifteen years. She has struggles to make it but has rebuilt her life to some degree. She has not been with any man since her husband deserted her. She does not trust men. She does not let anyone but close girlfriends and family into her life. She thinks it was her fault that she was abandoned by someone she loved and trusted. She had expected to live her entire life with him. Divorce was not an option, but forced on her unwillingly. Michael Stevens has just recently moved to Williamsburg. He is tall, muscular, brown haired, gray eyes and gorgeous of course too. He has just retired from a career in the Marines. He was a Colonel when he left active duty, having served all over the country and tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He settles in Williamsburg since the only family he has left is a sister and her family living in Richmond an hour away. He buys an expensive colonial brick home for a life he doesn't have as of yet. He has never been married, only passing relationships that really mean nothing to him at all. Michael sees Becca one night in June when she comes into a restaurant while he is having a drink alone at the bar. He watches her and wonders about her. He sees her ex-husband come in and after while figures out that she is meeting her ex to give him back a bracelet she still has. Even though Tripp is now on his third wife, he makes a move to start things up with Becca. Michael sees she is distressed and impulsively goes to rescue her by pretending to be her boyfriend. It takes a while but Tripp finally leaves. And so it begins...
A Real Love at Last
Author: Victoria Leigh Gabriella
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499078706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
This is the story of a mature love relationship between a man and a woman in their mid 40s. Each of them has been a bit unlucky in love in the past and have almost given up hope of ever finding a real love. Becca Connelly is approximately 45 years old, gorgeous, and an elementary school teacher living in Williamsburg,Virginia. Tall, brown shoulder length hair, green eyes and feminine figure. She was deeply heartbroken when her marriage ended and has not seen or heard from her ex-husband Tripp in fifteen years. She has struggles to make it but has rebuilt her life to some degree. She has not been with any man since her husband deserted her. She does not trust men. She does not let anyone but close girlfriends and family into her life. She thinks it was her fault that she was abandoned by someone she loved and trusted. She had expected to live her entire life with him. Divorce was not an option, but forced on her unwillingly. Michael Stevens has just recently moved to Williamsburg. He is tall, muscular, brown haired, gray eyes and gorgeous of course too. He has just retired from a career in the Marines. He was a Colonel when he left active duty, having served all over the country and tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He settles in Williamsburg since the only family he has left is a sister and her family living in Richmond an hour away. He buys an expensive colonial brick home for a life he doesn't have as of yet. He has never been married, only passing relationships that really mean nothing to him at all. Michael sees Becca one night in June when she comes into a restaurant while he is having a drink alone at the bar. He watches her and wonders about her. He sees her ex-husband come in and after while figures out that she is meeting her ex to give him back a bracelet she still has. Even though Tripp is now on his third wife, he makes a move to start things up with Becca. Michael sees she is distressed and impulsively goes to rescue her by pretending to be her boyfriend. It takes a while but Tripp finally leaves. And so it begins...
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499078706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
This is the story of a mature love relationship between a man and a woman in their mid 40s. Each of them has been a bit unlucky in love in the past and have almost given up hope of ever finding a real love. Becca Connelly is approximately 45 years old, gorgeous, and an elementary school teacher living in Williamsburg,Virginia. Tall, brown shoulder length hair, green eyes and feminine figure. She was deeply heartbroken when her marriage ended and has not seen or heard from her ex-husband Tripp in fifteen years. She has struggles to make it but has rebuilt her life to some degree. She has not been with any man since her husband deserted her. She does not trust men. She does not let anyone but close girlfriends and family into her life. She thinks it was her fault that she was abandoned by someone she loved and trusted. She had expected to live her entire life with him. Divorce was not an option, but forced on her unwillingly. Michael Stevens has just recently moved to Williamsburg. He is tall, muscular, brown haired, gray eyes and gorgeous of course too. He has just retired from a career in the Marines. He was a Colonel when he left active duty, having served all over the country and tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He settles in Williamsburg since the only family he has left is a sister and her family living in Richmond an hour away. He buys an expensive colonial brick home for a life he doesn't have as of yet. He has never been married, only passing relationships that really mean nothing to him at all. Michael sees Becca one night in June when she comes into a restaurant while he is having a drink alone at the bar. He watches her and wonders about her. He sees her ex-husband come in and after while figures out that she is meeting her ex to give him back a bracelet she still has. Even though Tripp is now on his third wife, he makes a move to start things up with Becca. Michael sees she is distressed and impulsively goes to rescue her by pretending to be her boyfriend. It takes a while but Tripp finally leaves. And so it begins...
Real Love
Author: Andy Thompson
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 161862802X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return." Love, something every human shares, the desire to love and be loved. And in the 21st century, a loving relationship is even more valued. We see love movies, watching teenage vampires find a love that will last more than one lifetime. Doctors, lawyers, even secret agents with "double O" status, all susceptible to Cupid's arrow. There are dating websites, chat rooms, bars, and places to "speed date." As we have used technology to enhance our lives, we couldn't help but put it to work in the most basic search of them all, the search for Real Love. And with the prevalence of divorce, the stakes are even higher, the challenge far greater. How can I find someone that will love me forever? And when I find that person, how should I proceed? This book is that answer. It is a guide. It is a manual on how to find someone, how to be found, and what to do once you find that person. And I trust that it will help you on your journey to find Real Love in a chaotic sexual landscape. But never give up; Real Love is possible.
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 161862802X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return." Love, something every human shares, the desire to love and be loved. And in the 21st century, a loving relationship is even more valued. We see love movies, watching teenage vampires find a love that will last more than one lifetime. Doctors, lawyers, even secret agents with "double O" status, all susceptible to Cupid's arrow. There are dating websites, chat rooms, bars, and places to "speed date." As we have used technology to enhance our lives, we couldn't help but put it to work in the most basic search of them all, the search for Real Love. And with the prevalence of divorce, the stakes are even higher, the challenge far greater. How can I find someone that will love me forever? And when I find that person, how should I proceed? This book is that answer. It is a guide. It is a manual on how to find someone, how to be found, and what to do once you find that person. And I trust that it will help you on your journey to find Real Love in a chaotic sexual landscape. But never give up; Real Love is possible.
Real Love
Author: Greg Baer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440626766
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
"He rocked my foundation! Greg Baer touched me deeply. He's got the answer to finding happiness in life."—Tony Trupiano, Talk America Why do most of us search our entire lives for loving and happy relationships but rarely find them? What is the "secret something" that all relationships need in order to thrive? Dr. Greg Baer found the answers to these questions while working with thousands of individuals and couples. In Real Love, he shares his enlightening and practical blueprint for creating successful relationships and reveals the secret to finding and keeping what he calls "Real Love." In Real Love, you'll discover: · The difference between Imitation Love and Real Love · How to eliminate conflicts with spouses, children, parents, friends and colleagues · How to put an end to destructive “Getting” and “Protecting” behaviors · How Real Love can eliminate anger, resentment, and fear · The four steps to finding Real Love With Real Love as your guide you can begin to heal the wounds of your past and create rewarding and fulfilling relationships in every area of your life.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440626766
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
"He rocked my foundation! Greg Baer touched me deeply. He's got the answer to finding happiness in life."—Tony Trupiano, Talk America Why do most of us search our entire lives for loving and happy relationships but rarely find them? What is the "secret something" that all relationships need in order to thrive? Dr. Greg Baer found the answers to these questions while working with thousands of individuals and couples. In Real Love, he shares his enlightening and practical blueprint for creating successful relationships and reveals the secret to finding and keeping what he calls "Real Love." In Real Love, you'll discover: · The difference between Imitation Love and Real Love · How to eliminate conflicts with spouses, children, parents, friends and colleagues · How to put an end to destructive “Getting” and “Protecting” behaviors · How Real Love can eliminate anger, resentment, and fear · The four steps to finding Real Love With Real Love as your guide you can begin to heal the wounds of your past and create rewarding and fulfilling relationships in every area of your life.
Real Love
Author: Sharon Salzberg
Publisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN: 1250076528
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The New York Times bestselling author and a central figure in the field of meditation, Sharon Salzberg, uses ancient Buddhist wisdom to redefine love and experience it in a more profound way. You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to deserve all the love in the world. Real Love is a creative tool kit of mindfulness exercises and meditation techniques that help you to truly engage with your present experience and create deeper love relationships with yourself, your partner, friends and family, and with life itself. Sharon Salzberg, a leading expert in Lovingkindness meditation, encourages us to strip away layers of negative habits and obstacles, helping us to experience authentic love based on direct experience, rather than preconceptions. Across three sections, Sharon explains how to dispel cultural and emotional habits, and direct focused care and attention to recapture the essence of what it is to love and be loved. With positive reflections and practices, Sharon teaches us how to shift the responsibilities of the love that we give and receive to rekindle the powerful healing force of true connection. By challenging myths perpetuated by popular culture, we can undo the limited definitions that reduce love to simply romance or passion, and give the heart a much needed tune-up to connect ourselves to the truest experience of love in our daily lives.
Publisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN: 1250076528
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The New York Times bestselling author and a central figure in the field of meditation, Sharon Salzberg, uses ancient Buddhist wisdom to redefine love and experience it in a more profound way. You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to deserve all the love in the world. Real Love is a creative tool kit of mindfulness exercises and meditation techniques that help you to truly engage with your present experience and create deeper love relationships with yourself, your partner, friends and family, and with life itself. Sharon Salzberg, a leading expert in Lovingkindness meditation, encourages us to strip away layers of negative habits and obstacles, helping us to experience authentic love based on direct experience, rather than preconceptions. Across three sections, Sharon explains how to dispel cultural and emotional habits, and direct focused care and attention to recapture the essence of what it is to love and be loved. With positive reflections and practices, Sharon teaches us how to shift the responsibilities of the love that we give and receive to rekindle the powerful healing force of true connection. By challenging myths perpetuated by popular culture, we can undo the limited definitions that reduce love to simply romance or passion, and give the heart a much needed tune-up to connect ourselves to the truest experience of love in our daily lives.
Real Life, Real Love
Author: Albert Cutié
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780425214602
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Father Albert offers his insights and guidance on how couples can overcome relationship problems and strengthen their love and commitment through a seven-step process that develops long, meaningful relationships.
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780425214602
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Father Albert offers his insights and guidance on how couples can overcome relationship problems and strengthen their love and commitment through a seven-step process that develops long, meaningful relationships.
Real Love in Dating
Author: Greg Baer
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This Real Love stuff is amazing. It's completely changed the way I date. I wish I'd known about it years ago. Everybody needs to read about Real Love before they go on their next date." For most of us, dating is often confusing, frustrating, and frightening. We look for the "right person" in bars, at school, at parties, and on Internet dating sites. But what happens when we find the right partner? 60% of marriages end in divorce, and only 1-2% experience the fulfillment both partners once hoped for. We need much more than another way to meet people. We need to learn how to create the loving and richly rewarding relationships we all want. In Real Love in Dating, you'll learn: - What we all need most before we can be genuinely happy-Real Love - What we use as substitutes for Real Love, and how that destroys relationships - How we behave when we don't feel loved, and how that makes us miserable - How to find the Real Love that will guarantee lasting and rewarding relationships - How to find and become the perfect partner - How to build a great relationship and keep your perfect partner
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This Real Love stuff is amazing. It's completely changed the way I date. I wish I'd known about it years ago. Everybody needs to read about Real Love before they go on their next date." For most of us, dating is often confusing, frustrating, and frightening. We look for the "right person" in bars, at school, at parties, and on Internet dating sites. But what happens when we find the right partner? 60% of marriages end in divorce, and only 1-2% experience the fulfillment both partners once hoped for. We need much more than another way to meet people. We need to learn how to create the loving and richly rewarding relationships we all want. In Real Love in Dating, you'll learn: - What we all need most before we can be genuinely happy-Real Love - What we use as substitutes for Real Love, and how that destroys relationships - How we behave when we don't feel loved, and how that makes us miserable - How to find the Real Love that will guarantee lasting and rewarding relationships - How to find and become the perfect partner - How to build a great relationship and keep your perfect partner
How to Fall in Love with Anyone
Author: Mandy Len Catron
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501137468
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
“A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir” (Los Angeles Review of Books) from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy. What really makes love last? Does love ever work the way we say it does in movies and books and Facebook posts? Or does obsessing over those love stories hurt our real-life relationships? When her parents divorced after a twenty-eight year marriage and her own ten-year relationship ended, those were the questions that Mandy Len Catron wanted to answer. In a series of candid, vulnerable, and wise essays that takes a closer look at what it means to love someone, be loved, and how we present our love to the world, “Catron melds science and emotion beautifully into a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation” (Bookpage). She delves back to 1944, when her grandparents met in a coal mining town in Appalachia, to her own dating life as a professor in Vancouver. She uses biologists’ research into dopamine triggers to ask whether the need to love is an innate human drive. She uses literary theory to show why we prefer certain kinds of love stories. She urges us to question the unwritten scripts we follow in relationships and looks into where those scripts come from. And she tells the story of how she decided to test an experiment that she’d read about—where the goal was to create intimacy between strangers using a list of thirty-six questions—and ended up in the surreal situation of having millions of people following her brand-new relationship. “Perfect fodder for the romantic and the cynic in all of us” (Booklist), How to Fall in Love with Anyone flips the script on love. “Clear-eyed and full of heart, it is mandatory reading for anyone coping with—or curious about—the challenges of contemporary courtship” (The Toronto Star).
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501137468
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
“A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir” (Los Angeles Review of Books) from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy. What really makes love last? Does love ever work the way we say it does in movies and books and Facebook posts? Or does obsessing over those love stories hurt our real-life relationships? When her parents divorced after a twenty-eight year marriage and her own ten-year relationship ended, those were the questions that Mandy Len Catron wanted to answer. In a series of candid, vulnerable, and wise essays that takes a closer look at what it means to love someone, be loved, and how we present our love to the world, “Catron melds science and emotion beautifully into a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation” (Bookpage). She delves back to 1944, when her grandparents met in a coal mining town in Appalachia, to her own dating life as a professor in Vancouver. She uses biologists’ research into dopamine triggers to ask whether the need to love is an innate human drive. She uses literary theory to show why we prefer certain kinds of love stories. She urges us to question the unwritten scripts we follow in relationships and looks into where those scripts come from. And she tells the story of how she decided to test an experiment that she’d read about—where the goal was to create intimacy between strangers using a list of thirty-six questions—and ended up in the surreal situation of having millions of people following her brand-new relationship. “Perfect fodder for the romantic and the cynic in all of us” (Booklist), How to Fall in Love with Anyone flips the script on love. “Clear-eyed and full of heart, it is mandatory reading for anyone coping with—or curious about—the challenges of contemporary courtship” (The Toronto Star).
Seeing the Real You at Last
Author: Britta Lee Shain
Publisher: Jawbone Press
ISBN: 9781908279941
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"I've never seen a Bob Dylan smile, except in photos or on the stage. Not the real thing." Britta Lee Shain was a friend of Bob Dylan's until he asked her to join him on the road in the mid 1980s, at which point she became more than a friend. In this intimate and elliptical memoir of their time together, at home in Los Angeles and on tour with Tom Petty and the Grateful Dead, she offers a unique portrait of the romantic, earthbound, and poetic soul trapped in the role of Being Bob Dylan. "If you were my woman, I'd be worth four times as much." Entire libraries of books have been written about Dylan, but few--if any--offer any lasting insight into the man behind the shades. Until now. Written with the elegance of a poet and storytelling snap of a novelist, Seeing The Real You At Last is a poignant and tender romance that reveals Dylan's playfulness, his dark wit, his fears and struggles, his complex relationships with the men and women in his life, and, ultimately, his genius.
Publisher: Jawbone Press
ISBN: 9781908279941
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"I've never seen a Bob Dylan smile, except in photos or on the stage. Not the real thing." Britta Lee Shain was a friend of Bob Dylan's until he asked her to join him on the road in the mid 1980s, at which point she became more than a friend. In this intimate and elliptical memoir of their time together, at home in Los Angeles and on tour with Tom Petty and the Grateful Dead, she offers a unique portrait of the romantic, earthbound, and poetic soul trapped in the role of Being Bob Dylan. "If you were my woman, I'd be worth four times as much." Entire libraries of books have been written about Dylan, but few--if any--offer any lasting insight into the man behind the shades. Until now. Written with the elegance of a poet and storytelling snap of a novelist, Seeing The Real You At Last is a poignant and tender romance that reveals Dylan's playfulness, his dark wit, his fears and struggles, his complex relationships with the men and women in his life, and, ultimately, his genius.
Everything I Know About Love
Author: Dolly Alderton
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062968807
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller "There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it.” —Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women “Dolly Alderton has always been a sparkling Roman candle of talent. She is funny, smart, and explosively engaged in the wonders and weirdness of the world. But what makes this memoir more than mere entertainment is the mature and sophisticated evolution that Alderton describes in these pages. It’s a beautifully told journey and a thoughtful, important book. I loved it.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and City of Girls The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding a job, getting drunk, getting dumped, realizing that Ivan from the corner shop might just be the only reliable man in her life, and that absolutely no one can ever compare to her best girlfriends. Everything I Know About Love is about bad dates, good friends and—above all else— realizing that you are enough. Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humor, Dolly Alderton’s unforgettable debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age—making you want to pick up the phone and tell your best friends all about it. Like Bridget Jones’ Diary but all true, Everything I Know About Love is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its terrifying and hopeful uncertainty.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062968807
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller "There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it.” —Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women “Dolly Alderton has always been a sparkling Roman candle of talent. She is funny, smart, and explosively engaged in the wonders and weirdness of the world. But what makes this memoir more than mere entertainment is the mature and sophisticated evolution that Alderton describes in these pages. It’s a beautifully told journey and a thoughtful, important book. I loved it.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and City of Girls The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding a job, getting drunk, getting dumped, realizing that Ivan from the corner shop might just be the only reliable man in her life, and that absolutely no one can ever compare to her best girlfriends. Everything I Know About Love is about bad dates, good friends and—above all else— realizing that you are enough. Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humor, Dolly Alderton’s unforgettable debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age—making you want to pick up the phone and tell your best friends all about it. Like Bridget Jones’ Diary but all true, Everything I Know About Love is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its terrifying and hopeful uncertainty.
Recipes for a Perfect Marriage
Author: Kate Kerrigan
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 1743295308
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
New York food writer Tressa returns from honeymoon worried that she has married her impossibly handsome new husband Dan out of late-thirties panic instead of love. In 1930's Ireland, her grandmother, Bernadine, is married off to the local schoolteacher after her family are unable to raise a dowry for her to marry her true love, Michael. During the first year of her marriage, Tressa distracts herself from her stay-or-go dilemma by working on her grandmother's recipes, searching for solace and answers through their preparation.
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 1743295308
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
New York food writer Tressa returns from honeymoon worried that she has married her impossibly handsome new husband Dan out of late-thirties panic instead of love. In 1930's Ireland, her grandmother, Bernadine, is married off to the local schoolteacher after her family are unable to raise a dowry for her to marry her true love, Michael. During the first year of her marriage, Tressa distracts herself from her stay-or-go dilemma by working on her grandmother's recipes, searching for solace and answers through their preparation.