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For many years Relate has been publishing highly acclaimed books focused on better relationships. These are available via the links below from Amazon, or are in most high street bookshops. Books listed here can be purchased via Amazon by clicking the link by the book.

After the affair
Buy online £6.99
After the Affair
Julia Cole
Finding out that your partner has had an affair can feel like the end of the world; the ultimate betrayal. This book takes a frank yet sensitive look at why people embark on affairs, explores the devastating effects on the person who has been betrayed, and shows how individuals and couples can recover.
Babyshock!
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Babyshock!
Elizabeth Martyn
Babyshock! draws on the expertise of Relate counsellors and explains how your relationship is affected from the first decision to try for a baby, through pregnancy, birth and babyhood, up to the stage of caring for toddlers and young children. This practical guide shows how you can:
create time for yourselves
improve your sex life
cope with rows and disagreements
agree on how to bring up the children
share domestic responsibilities-manage the demands of work and family.

Before you say I do

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Before you say I do..
Elizabeth Martyn
Using practical checklists and questionnaires, Before You Say I Do helps you gain a deeper understanding of how your relationship works and build the bedrock of a marriage that is happy stable and fulfilling.
Help your children cope with divorce
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Help Your Children Cope with Your Divorce
Paula Hall
Children of all ages can be devastated by the news that their parents' relationship has broken down. Even those who have been living in a highly conflictual situation are often shocked by the final decision to separate. For most children, separation means major changes to family life and often losing a parent. The long-term impacts of divorce are now widely recognised with increasing chances of problems at school, criminal behaviour, problems in their own relationships and mental illness.

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Loving Yourself, Loving Another:The Importance of Self-esteem for Successful Relationships
Julia Cole
This guide reveals how a lack of self-esteem can profoundly affect an individual's close relationships. Comprising exercises, advice, and self-awareness puzzles, this guide is designed to help the reader improve their emotional well-being.

Relate Guide to Better Relationships
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Relate Guide To Better Relationships
Sarah Litvinoff
Everyone who falls in love hopes that it will be forever. The truth is that relationships inevitably change and few things in life cause more distress than when problems develop in a relationship. A highly readable and practical guide.

Moving On
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Relate Guide To Moving On
Suzie Hayman
Suzie Hayman draws on her many years as a Relate counselor and agony aunt to provide information and advice on how to cope in a positive manner, with the stress caused by relationship breakups.

Starting again

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Relate Guide To Starting Again
Sarah Litvinoff
When a relationship finishes it can feel like the end of the world but it is also a new beginning. 'Starting Again' can help you deal with your feelings of separation, grief and recovery, and will help you to start looking to a positive future.
Staying Together
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Relate Guide To Staying Together
Susan Quilliam
Staying Together offers advice on making your relationship stronger again, by rediscovering what brought you together and helping you to recommit to each other and your relationship.
Relate Guide to Step Families

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Relate Guide To Step Families
Suzie Hayman
One in three people find themselves as part of a step family or second family at some point in their life. This book offers practical and positive strategies for coping for all the people involved; parents, established parents, children, the grandparents.
Stop Arguing Start Talking
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Stop Arguing: Start Talking
Susan Quilliam
Tells you everything you need to know about identifying your personal trigger points, stopping the misunderstandings before they start and turning heated rows into constructive discussion.
Sex in Loving Relationships
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The Relate Guide To Sex In Loving Relationships
Sarah Litvinoff
This understanding book guides the reader step-by-step through the underlying problems which can arise in any relationship and inhibit a fulfilling sex life. It offers a wealth of practical advice on sexual techniques and sympathetic guidance on overcoming possible sexual difficulties.

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