Riding the passionate edge
Subtitle: converting tension into emotional intimacy
By: Mary Cushman, Tom Cushman
Contributors: Cushman, Tom, author
Publisher: Langdon Street Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [Minneapolis]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781626526259; 9781626526235
Subjects: Families; Psychological aspects; Couples; Psychology; Interpersonal relations; Stress (Psychology); Intimacy (Psychology)
Description: In an intimate relationship, it's a common error to believe that emotional closeness and tension can't co-exist -- that love and anger can't sit at the same end of the couch. "Riding the Passionate Edge: Converting Tension into Emotional Intimacy" turns this mistaken idea upside down. Believing that unresolved tension creates estrangement and loneliness, these authors provide concrete skills for transforming relationships -- even those that feel beyond repair. In "Riding the Passionate Edge," readers will learn how to change corrosive conflict into pathways to deep emotional intimacy.
Table of contents: title: Cover Page; Introduction; PART ONE: HOW WE SABOTAGE EMOTIONAL PASSION IN OUR INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS; 1. Avoiding Conflict; 2. Minimizing the Impact of Hurt and Fear; 3. Running from Anger; 4. Imagining We're Listening ... When We're Not; PART TWO: HOW WE CAN STOP SABOTAGING INTIMACY IN THE FACE OF TENSION; 5. Develop a Spirit of Deep Listening; 6. Embrace New Listening Skills; 7. Commit to a Spirit of Conscious Speaking; 8. Learn the Skills Needed for Emotionally Intimate Conversation; 9. Insist on Getting to the Bottom of Trouble; 10. Four Resolved Spats.; title: 11. Living Along the Passionate EdgeACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; SUGGESTED READING.