Gay Relationships C

By Tina B. Tessina

Book Overview

Here is a step-by-step guide to making relationships work for America's more than twenty million gay men and women. Written in a warm, direct style, this book is leavened with humor and filled with anecdotes and examples drawn from the lives of the author's clients and friends.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874775175
• ISBN13: 9780874775174
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Tarcher
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

What the experts say about Gay Relationships for Men and Women, 2nd Ed.

"Tina Tessina has made a significant step forward with the publication of Gay Relationships. I t provides an important service to the lesbian and gay community... Heterosexuals would be so lucky to have such a compendium of information. Highly recommended reading." -Edge Magazine "A valuable, Helpful book filled with enlightening information" Seattle Gay News "For same-sex couples who have always had to mentally revise heterosexually oriented relationship material, finally here is a book addressed to you, and one worth waiting for. Tina Tessina has written a first-rate how-to manual... This book is superbly simple, clearly and sensitively written." -- Isadora Alman, San Francisco Bay Guardian "Dr. Tessina displays a genuine introspection about gay and lesbian relationships. Her concern is not only with the formulation of such relationships, but also with providing practical information on long-term maintenance of the relationship once it occurs." --Rick Schroeder and John Morgan Founders and Chaircouple, Couples National Network "If you are interested in how to come out at work, the dynamics of living together, or the pros and cons of almost every decision you will face as a gay person in a relationship, Dr. Tessina addresses those issues with balance and love in this straight- talking, practical, caring primer." --Dr. Warren Farrell author, Why Men Are the Way They Are "A useful compendium of practical, straightforward advice. A valuable book for clients and therapists alike." Linda De Villers, past President, The Society for the Scientific Study of Sex