Limerence books
Here is a list of books that we found useful when dealing with our limerence:
Relationships, love and limerence:
Love and Limerence – Dorothy Tenov – has to be top of the list for any limerent
Love and Limerence: Harness the Limbicbrain – Dr Lynn Willmott – an updated version of Tenov’s book
Hold me Tight – Sue Johnson
Intimacy and Desire – Dr. David Schnarch
Awaken the passion in your relationship Passionate Marriage – keeping love and intimacy alive in committed relationships Dr. David Schnarch
Addiction to Love, The Art of Changing, Where Love Abides, and Recovery Workbook for Love Addicts and Love Avoidants: Introducing the Ambivalent Love Addict, all by Susan Peabody
Obsessive love – when it hurts too much too let go – Susan Forward
I love you but im not in love with you – Andrew Marshall
Getting the love you want – Harville Hendrix
The book of love – David Delvin the Art of Love -Erich Frohm
The concious heart – Kathlyn and Guy hendrix
Radical honesty and radical parenting – Brad Blanton
Mating in captivity – sex, lies and domestic bliss – Esther Perel
The Erotic mind 5 steps to romantic love – Jack Morin,
Fall in love, stay in love – Willard Harley
Surviving an affair, Willard Harley
Love busters – Willard Harley
Effective Marriage Counselling – Willard Harley
When your sex drives don’t match – Sandra Pertot
His needs, Her needs -Willard Harley
A general theory of love – Thomas Lewis
The Eden Project – in search of the magical others – James Hollis
Confusing love with obsession – John Moore
Falling in love – why we choose the lovers we choose
The 5 love languages Gary Chapman
Not just friends – Shirley Glass
Woman who love too much – Robin Norwood
The fantasy bond – Robert Firestone
Misc Books
Boundaries and relationships – Charles Whitfield
Narcicism – Denial of the true self – Alexander Lowen
Creating the capacity for attachment – treating addictions and the alienated self-
Games people play – Eric Behrne
Toxic parents – Susan Forward
Homecoming -the inner child – John Bradshaw
Adult children – the secrets of dysfunctional families – John Friel
The Willpower Instinct – Kelly McGonigal
The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
Co-dependency
Facing co-dependence What it is, where it comes from, how it sabotages our lives – Pia Melody
Love addiction – Pia Mellody
Co-dependent no more – Melody Beatie
Choices – Melody Beatie
The intimacy factor – Pia melody
Mid-life crises
The Middle passage, from misery to meaning in midlife – James Hollis
Books for men
Crossing the Soul’s River, A rite of passage for men – William Roberts
Iron John – John Blye
Absent fathers, lost sons – Guy Corneau
The Flying boy – Healing the wounded man – John Lee
The married man’s sex life primer – Athol Kay
Books for women
Running with wolves