Dr.Schillace’s book is special among works on personal change and psychology that are written for the general public. Most books in this genre are written with a “one size fits all” approach to psychological issues, recommended solutions and how people should help themselves. Relationship Pain offers a more individualized point of view. It includes specific chapters on the nature of difficulties in intimate, parent-child and work relationships. It is unique in its examination of the impact of personal trauma and loss on one’s interpersonal relations and view of relationships. Here, Dr. Schillace helps to understand the emotional and relational experience when we lose something positive in our lives, such as an intimate partner or work position, or when we are assaulted by a negative and terrifying experience, such as a bad accident or rape. This book has much to offer those who suffer a loss or trauma and those who care for them, in terms of sensitive understanding and constructive help. Taken from the Introduction by Robert Fink, Ph.D. In teaching us how each of us plays a part in creating our own experiences, the author extends the ultimate gift: he helps us learn how to transcend many of our own crazy ways. Reading Relationship Pain activates memories, fosters personal awareness, leads the reader to engage in his or her own healing process. Do you seek relief from the discomfort of your relationships. Help exists! Taken from the Introduction by David Trout Pomeroy Dr. Ralph Schillace is a psychologist who lives (photo) in Rochester Hills, Michigan.

Featured on Oprah, this unique book shows, step-by-step, how to end conflict and restore love in any relationship. You will learn what creates love and what destroys it. You will learn how to end conflict, heal hurt, remove distance, forgive, resolve issues and restore your peace of mind. Bill Ferguson's background as a former divorce attorney provides a rare insight into the nature of relationships. Full of examples and specific action to take, take, this profound yet simple book shows you something about yourself and others that will change your life.

Feeling Hurt in Close Relationships presents a synthesis of cutting-edge research and theory on hurt. Being hurt is an inevitable part of close relationships. What varies from relationship to relationship is not whether partners hurt each other, but how their relationship is affected by hurtful episodes. Given the potential influence of hurt feelings on people's interpersonal relationships, it is not surprising that scholars have begun to study the antecedents, processes, and outcomes associated with hurt. This collection integrates the various issues addressed by researchers, theorists, and practitioners who study the causes of hurt feelings, the interpersonal events associated with hurt, and the ways people respond to hurting and being hurt by others. To capture the breadth and depth of the literature in this area, the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines – including social psychology, communication, sociology, and family studies – is highlighted.

This is a relationship manual book based on Botswana, Africa perspective. This book is all about the causes of the pains people encounter in their relationships which lead other people to kill their partners before taking their own lives. Solutions as well as counselling are availed in this highly educational book.What is written was well thought and a thorough research was conducted prior to writing it.People made decisions that they thought would not hurt their partners only to regret the consequences, the bloodshed. Eventually they were murdered. This book is aimed at empowering individuals to live peacefully with their partners. After reading this book readers will be in a position to make wise decisions and be very extra sensitive to their partners'' feelings. That way the battle against passion killings will be won.What prompted the author to write this book are 2 incidents of which if he was not man enough could have committed passion killings himself. In the first incident he caught red handed his fiancée of 9 years having sex with another man in his house, bedroom, bed, blankets and using his [author''s] condoms. The author was arriving from a trip and was overwhelmed by his return to reunite with his fiancée. He bought some roses and presents in his bag. It was around 2000 Hrs when he peeped through his opened bedroom window trying to ask his fiancée to go and open the entrance door for him only to find her having dog style with another man in his house. When they discovered that he was at standing outside watching a live blue movie, the 2 of them ran away leaving the author confused, surprised, shocked, unbelieving, wondering, powerless and out of words. He went to his neighbour and asked him to accompany him to the bar without telling him what he saw. In the bar he bought 15 bottles of brandy, Push Kin. He drank them for 4 days and collapsed. His neighbour took him to Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone, Botswana, Africa where he was hospitalized for 15 days. The author became scared of women and spent 3 years without dating anybody. He found another woman who after 4 years with her he caught her with his best friend. The author and his best friend started their friendship while at primary school doing standard 4. His friend left him in a bar after telling him to wait for him there and after telling the bar attendants to serve the author with alcohol as he will come and pay when he comes back. For such kind of free alcohol availed to the author, the author became overjoyed not knowing what he was rejoicing for. His friend would leave him there, go to his partner and have sex with her. After having sex he would get money from her and go and pay for the beers the author has drank. This guy did this for a period of 3 weeks leaving the author in the bar only to go and have sex with his partner. After 3 weeks he left the author in the bar as usual and headed to the author''s place. That day the author only drank 2 beers, paid for them, left a message with the bar attendants that when his friend comes they must tell him that he has retired to his place. He left without calling his friend nor his fiancée as the 2 expected the author to call him when heading home as his friend was to come and pay for the beers taken in the bar and 2, he never went with house keys as he was someone who used to lose them. That day he took the kitchen door key and his fiancée was not aware of it. When he arrived home he tried to open the sitting room door and it was locked and no key in the door. He went to the kitchen door and opened it, put the 6 beers he bought for himself in the fridge and something told him to go and inspect his bedroom. When he entered his bedroom he found the 2 there. The outer cover of his book depicts what the author saw when he came back from the bar and how the situation was like. He interviewed prisoners who killed their partners, patients at mental hospital who were affected by relationships as well as judges etc

This book addresses the reality of the world we are so often unwilling to accept: the irrational and violent inner world of shame, doubt, guilt, fear, love and hate.

Let go of your toxic partner, heal your emotional wounds, and set healthy boundaries for future relationships with this step-by-step guide to overcoming toxic relationships. From red flags to crossed boundaries, to lies and gaslighting, you’ve recognized that you were or currently are in a toxic relationship. But now what? It’s time to fully let the relationship go and begin to heal. With Toxic Relationships, you’ll address the ways that you were wronged during your relationship. You’ll learn strategies for how to trust other people and yourself again after being gaslit, find the warning signs of toxicity and narcissism in others, and reframe negative, harmful thoughts to a positive outlook on life. As you work to let go of the toxic relationship that ate away at your happiness, you’ll learn how to carve out space for you to be happy on your own and to love yourself for who you are. When you’re ready to enter another relationship, you’ll implement healthy boundaries and clear communication. Put yourself first with Toxic Relationships.

Maintaining joy and a fulfilling relationship while coping with chronic pain is a struggle faced by millions of people today. Australian health entrepreneur Karra Eloff has drawn on academic research and her own experience to develop this blueprint for a remarkable relationship, delivering practical solutions to couples living with chronic pain.

Do you struggle in your relationships? Do your relationships have more hurt than happiness, and you're not sure why Do you want to find more happiness in your life as a whole? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, From Hurt to Happiness is for you. When you meet author Mike Van today, you would never imagine the pain he experienced in his past. From fleeing a war ravaged country as a boy, to years of being bullied and finding himself on the brink of suicide at nineteen, to overcoming the lingering depression that plagued him from childhood. With heart-wrenching candor, Van shares his many challenges and the path he found to ultimately overcome them. He takes us inside his personal road to rebuilding his inner strength, his identity, and his life. These are trials we all may have experienced in one way or another. Through relaying his personal strife, Van shares the many pitfalls of relationships and the secrets to their success. In From Hurt to Happiness, he lays out the twenty-five secrets he's learned about connecting with people, how to get others to willingly comply to our needs, and why it can be a struggle being understood and accepted. Van gives readers the secrets that help replace the hurt in our lives and relationships so that happiness and joy can flourish.In From Hurt to Happiness, walks through Mike Van's path to transformation and joy, and gives readers the opportunity to find answers to improving their own relationships - and their life. Mike Van lives in Sydney, Australia. He hopes to see personal development such as conflict resolution taught in schools and to young adults - equipping our children and future leaders with the necessary tools to make positive differences for generations to come. www.fromhurttohappiness.com

In love In Pain reveals the strange, but so true correlation between love and pain. Being in love is associated with happiness and joy in the normal scheme of things. But in reality, there is often times so much pain associated with loving someone unconditionally. This book addresses the many sources of pain associated with loving. The pain of lies, deceit, disappointment, discovery, and the very harsh pain of being forced to accept reality instead of the perfect fantasy relationships we dream up for ourselves.In Love in Pain is a study of how women behave in relationships. It takes a candid look at the destructive behaviors women adopt while trying to find and maintain love. It is the rational mind in touch with the emotions of a woman. It is a candid look at how willing they are to give away parts of themselves to keep or attract men that if women truly are healthy they would not tolerate. The book reads like a suspense/romance novel style. But can serve as an personal examination and inventory that each woman can use to evaluate her life. Each story is a fictionalized depletion of a real life scenario. Where a woman finds herself faced with important decisions that will affect and effect her life and relationships. The stories of In Love In Pain are not designed to focus on men and how they treat women, but on how the woman's behavior, the woman's decisions and response to the stimuli created by love or obsession affects her life and her relationships. Each woman in the stories had to make decisions about how she would pilot her own life and how she would determine when it was appropriate for her to cut her losses and come to grips with a relationship where the love is overshadowed by the pain. The primary focus: how each woman responds to what she perceives as love and how she behaves in order to try to keep that love. In Love In Pain reveals the hard part of relationships and how women in love will put themselves in physical, emotional, spiritual and physical danger to keep the facade of a relationship that is not nourishing, supportive or fulfilling. Caitlyn, Dedra, Yasmine, Marva and Sherese are in love. Each one has some heavy decisions regarding that love. Can love conquer all things? Will Caitlyn's love be able to overcome her husband's second family? Is Dedra's love enough to endure a prison term? Will Yasmine's love be enough for her and her husband? Will Marva and Sherese's love overcome a con artist and lazy man? These women are faced with hard decisions but they don't have to face them alone.Each character has a pot on the stove boiling and it's about to boil over. Caitlyn finds out that everything she thought was her own is not, Dedra realizes that if loving her baby daddy is wrong she finally wants to be right. Yasmine understands that love must be a two-way street, while Marva's heart unfortunately cashes a check one too many times for her husband and Sherese can't see the gift in her situation.If the truth be known, what many if not most of the characters are looking for is not love, but rather, an in-love experience and that is exactly what they got. But they stayed too long and that experience turned to pain.Women when you finish reading it. Conveniently lay it around so that your man will pick it up. This book holds a very special message for men and women.I recently read this book and I would recommend this book to anyone who has loved someone too much only to find out they were not worthy of you. I went away from this book with a sense of hope and understanding of why people stay. The characters are people we know and love and in the best of trying to be there can be difficult and painful to watch. The author manages to give realistic outcomes for her characters. My hope is when you read this book you will know that you are not alone and there is help out there if you are willing to ask and accept it.

Communication scholars have long recognized the importance of understanding associations between our bodies and communication messages and processes. In the past decade, there has been an increased focus on the role of physiology in interpersonal interactions, resulting in a surge of research exploring topics related to communication in close relationships. This growing line of research explores topics such as affectionate communication, forgiveness, communication apprehension, and social support. Contributing to the increase in physiological research on communication processes is a greater recognition of the bi-directional nature of the associations between communication and the body. Researchers study both the physiological outcomes of communication episodes (e.g., stress responses to conflict conversations), as well as the effects of physiology on communication process (e.g., the influence of hormones on post-sex communication). The Oxford Handbook of the Physiology of Interpersonal Communication offers a comprehensive review of the most prolific areas of research investigating both the physiological outcomes of interpersonal communication and the effects of physiology on interpersonal interactions. This volume brings together thirty-three leading scholars in the field and draws on research from communication studies, physiology, psychology, and neuroscience. Based on quantitative research methods, the Handbook serves as a resource for both researchers and students interested in investigating the mutual influence of physiology and communication in close relationships.