My Guy: A gay Man?s Guide to a Lasting Relationship
(ISBN: 1-57071-967-5; June 2002; Relationships; $15.00) outlines a winning approach for gay men to connect meaningfully with one another so that they can create lasting love relationships.
My Guy
concentrates on the nine steps to finding a lasting relationship:
1. -Choose Relationships and Love: Decide for yourself to be ready for a relationship.2. -Do a Reality Check: Develop an optimistic view about the chances of forming a long-term relationship by doing a reality check of the myths of gay love.3. -Avoid Mr. Wrong: Discover why gay men wind up with unsuitable partners because of bad luck, inexperience, poor skills or a flawed or impractical approach to finding relationships4. -Pick Mr. Right: Be flexible, do not prejudge relationships, look around at what you already have, select and then settle and put love in perspective.5. -Where to Go to Find Him: Master a few simple general principles.6. -Look Great for Mr. Wonderful: Overcome common dating liabilities due to poor grooming or dress by enhancing the way you present yourself so that you can better appeal to his senses.7. -Be Great to Mr. Wonderful: Identify the positive personal characteristics that increase chances of connecting.8. -Worm Your Way Into His Heart: Learn win-win methods to read individuals and work the room and create a desired positive response, instead of leaving things completely up to chance.Make your environment react to you.9. -Overcome Obstacles: Break free from what might be straight-jacketing you from committing to a long-term relationship.
This step-by-step approach allows any gay man to take charge of his life, master his flaws through self-awareness and dedicate himself to creating a great relationship for himself and his lover.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Martin Kantor is a psychiatrist who has been in full-time private practice in Boston and New York and on the staffs of The Massachusetts General Hospital and The Mount Sinai School of Medicine.He is the author of ten other books on psychological topics, including Distancing, which describes how people avoid relationships due to anxiety, Homophobia, which views homophobia as a manifestation of deep psychological problems, and Treating Emotional Disorder in Gay Men, which describes the form some common psychological difficulties take when they appear in homosexuals, and offers some practical suggestions on how to modify psychotherapy to make it more relevant to, and palatable and affirmative for, gay men.He lives very quietly during the week with Michael in a small house on the banks of a river in the New Jersey woods, and reverse commutes to New York City on weekends.
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION1. -What is your background?2. -What are the major barriers gay men encounter in finding lasting relationships?3. -What are the most important steps gay men must take to find that lasting relationship?4. -What are the best places for gay men to meet other men?5. -What are the common myths out there about gay love?How can these myths be overcome?6. -What are some signs that you have found Mr. Wrong?What about Mr. Right?7. -How do common stereotypes about gay love adversely affect gay relationships?
Accomplished Attorney Provides Legal Reference to GLBT Community
?This clearly written, comprehensive, accessible guide belongs in the library of all gays and lesbians who are thinking of partnering or who are already partnered?Learn about domestic agreements, managing joint income, and protecting yourself and your significant other financially?buy and read this book.??Martin Kantor, M.D., author of My Guy: A Gay Man?s Guide to a Lasting Relationship
Selected by Quality Paperback Book Club, Gay and Lesbian Rights: A Guide for GLBT Singles, Couples and Families, is a must have for any gay, lesbian, bi or TG looking for detailed information on their personal rights and information regarding legal issues, such as work discrimination and adoption.
Brette McWhorter Sember, attorney at law and author of Gay and Lesbian Rights: A Guide for GLBT Singles, Couples and Families (ISBN: 1-57248-331-8; 2003; Sphinx Legal, $26.95 U.S./$42.95 CAN paperback), has extensive experience in the areas of individual and family rights, as well as mediation.Through client contact, McWhorter Sember realized that there are many situations in which the law does not provide clear answers and protection to common problems, though often forgotten, such as GLBT rights.
Gay and Lesbian Rights contains answers to common questions and concerns, while explaining laws that are not always GLBT friendly.The detailed, yet clearly written, language makes the reading easy to understand.Several appendices provide further information on websites, organizations, and agencies that can be of assistance.An additional appendix contains information on state by state laws.
Gay and Lesbian Rights addresses all of the common questions and concerns of the GLBT community, including:
o -How to get health benefits for your partnero -Protection available under hate crime lawso -How to combine finances with a partnero -And much more
From how to stand up for your rights to how to use the law to your advantage, this self-help legal guide will assist any member of the GLBT community interested in learning more about what he or she can to protect and stand up for themselves.
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