ABSTRACT

Love and Sex in a New Relationship explores leaving a long relationship and starting a new one, with all the complexities that entails. Using her experience as a relationship therapist, Cate Campbell takes the reader through the journey of loss and renewal, examining the dynamics involved in the end and beginning of a relationship, and how to give new relationships the best chance of survival.

Focusing on three main relationship issues, the book considers: how to end a relationship and manage ongoing contact with an ex; how to understand what went wrong in previous relationships; and how to overcome everyday relationship problems and make relationships thrive. Taking into account the effect of technology and social media, and how to make online dating work, the book offers a distinctly modern take on relationships. Similarly, the spectrum of sexuality, gender and sexual relationships is addressed, with many different examples included throughout the book.

With practical advice, case studies, quizzes and exercises to help identify and remedy a variety of problems that can occur at any stage of a relationship, Love and Sex in a New Relationship will provide an essential resource for relationship counsellors and their clients.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

part I|42 pages

A new start

chapter 1|12 pages

Making decisions

chapter 2|9 pages

You and your ex

chapter 3|19 pages

Your single self

part II|65 pages

Looking forward – looking back

chapter 4|16 pages

How we do relationships

chapter 5|17 pages

Why couples argue

chapter 6|11 pages

The unconscious contract

chapter 7|19 pages

Unfinished business

part III|74 pages

Managing new relationships

chapter 8|14 pages

Uncertainty

chapter 9|14 pages

Breaking and avoiding negative cycles

chapter 10|14 pages

Relationship trauma

chapter 11|11 pages

Sex

chapter 12|12 pages

Love and the relationship lifecycle

chapter 13|7 pages

Happy Ever After