This book hit the nail on the head. Most relationship books take the "he's just not that into you strategy" and give you the "get over yourself" spiel. Intimate Conversations for Couples takes a much different approach. This book is intimate in nature and talks about the emotional connection between two people and how to strengthen it. If the relationship were a seed this would definitely be the water that makes it grow.

There are a few things that I will point out that I loved about the book.

1. I loved the self-discovery questions at the end of each chapter. The authors doesn't "tell" you, but leads you on a path of empowerment to find the answer out for yourself.

2. The font that the book used has a warm and compassionate feeling to it. I am a sucker for attention to detail so this book really stood out in a good way. The font, the organization, and even how the questions were set-up at the end all caught my attention.

3. The delivering of the message. The author used a very unique approach to getting his message across. This will draw readers in and make them feel like the author GENUINELY wants to help, not just sell books.

This book was well-written, well-researched, and will prove to help many and their relationships. I would recommend to everyone that they take the journey through this book. It is such a small investment that will pay off in huge returns.

Well done!

The book reports that the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident. That information has been added to the article.

As an example, we just sold a small two-bedroom home. We ended up going over budget on the rehab and therefore failed to “BRRRR out.” The Zestimate was at $83,500, but my valuation of the comparables made me believe it was worth more.
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We listed it for $94,900 and immediately the Zestimate jumped up to $96,100. Then, we sold it for $93,000.

I recently helped facilitate a training on white fragility. We asked white folks to share a story of a time when they were fragile in discussions of race, racism, or whiteness. We struggled to share examples. It’s not that we aren’t fragile, but rather, our reluctance to share is an example of our fragility. I shared a story of a time when I didn’t intervene when a colleague said something racially problematic. It was an easy story to tell. It was someone else’s racism and my reluctance to challenge white solidarity was peripheral...

A few years back, a family friend, an aunt really, unfriended our entire family. She divorced us because we weren’t doing enough to deconstruct our whiteness and the ways in which we manifested racism in our lives. Janine, we’ll call her, is a Jewish woman whose partner is African American and whose daughter is biracial. When she unfriended us, we’d been in each other’s lives for twenty years. Most of us don’t know anyone like Janine; she’s exceptionally anti-racist and holds people accountable even when that means sacrificing relationships she values.
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I’ll admit that at first, I didn’t understand it. I recoiled at the accusation. I called my sisters. I fumed defensively over the phone. I’d been taught to think of racists as boys who wore Confederate flag belt buckles, or the people who hurled racial slurs at passersby. I’d been taught to see racism as overtly bigoted and intentional acts of cruelty, or systemic patterns of discrimination. I couldn’t be racist. Privileged, certainly. Racist? Absolutely not.  After all, I taught about racism and white privilege every year. I infused my curriculum with controversial discussions that centered institutionalized racism. I confronted racists and advocated on behalf of people of color. I was #woke.
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When she divorced us, she did so over a blog post. It was public. And while she didn’t name names, and I’m sure few people read it, I was hurt and ashamed. It took me months to understand that she divorced us in a way that would allow her the uninterrupted space to explain herself, it afforded her safety and distance. She didn’t have to listen to us defend ourselves, argue with her, or whitesplain anything.

Purdue turned the records over to the Florida attorney general’s office in 2002 during its investigation of the company. Additional Purdue documents from the Florida investigation detail how the company targeted patients and allayed addiction worries.

'Fear should not stand in the way of relief of your pain,' a pivotal marketing brochure said.

Their fortune will drop below $1.5 billion based on the terms of the proposal, which envisions the family paying at least $3 billion in cash. Purdue would file for bankruptcy, handing itself over to a trust controlled by the states, cities and counties that have sued. ​