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HourLife Collection · 19 books · 116 insights

Love & Relationships

For every stage of love — finding it, keeping it, understanding it.

Collection Index

A shelf with an argument.

Every collection gathers books around a practical life problem. Open the title that feels closest, then let the shelf widen the frame.

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01

Laura Corn

101 Nights of Great Sex

Desire is not found by waiting for the mood. It is invited by the care you put into the moment before it begins.

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02

Jay Shetty

8 Rules of Love

Love is not proven by intensity. It is proven by the care you practice when intensity fades.

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Mary Roach

Bonk

Curiosity is the antidote to shame, especially when the subject is the body we were taught to whisper about.

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Katherine Woodward Thomas

Calling in "The One"

The love you are calling in has to recognize the home you have already become.

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Kevin Leman

Have a New Sex Life by Friday

A new sex life by Friday begins when the everyday climate becomes safe, warm, and worth coming home to.

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Ian Kerner

He Comes Next

Pleasure becomes intimate when it stops being a performance and starts becoming a practice of attention.

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Sue Johnson

Hold Me Tight

Love becomes secure when the frightened places in us can reach and find someone reaching back.

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Lane Moore

How to Be Alone

Aloneness becomes survivable when you stop treating your own company as a consolation prize.

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Todd Baratz

How to Love Someone Without Losing Your Mind

The goal is not to be unbothered by love. The goal is to stay in relationship with yourself while you love someone else.

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Gary John Bishop

Love Unfu*ked

Love gets unfu*ked when honesty becomes more important than keeping the beautiful lie alive.

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Stephen Snyder

Love Worth Making

Desire returns when sex stops being a referendum and starts becoming a place where two people feel free, chosen, and alive.

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Esther Perel

Mating in Captivity

Desire survives not because we know everything about the person we love, but because we keep meeting the parts that remain free.

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Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg

Modern Romance

Modern romance asks for an old-fashioned skill: choosing one real person while the whole world keeps offering alternatives.

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Patrick J. Carnes

Out of the Shadows

Recovery begins when secrecy loses its job and reality becomes safe enough to tell the truth.

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Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jethá

Sex at Dawn

The more honestly we study desire, the less useful shame becomes as a relationship strategy.

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Vanessa Marin, Xander Marin

Sex Talks

The most erotic sentence in a long relationship may be: I want to understand what this is like for you.

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Ian Kerner

She Comes First

Pleasure becomes generous when attention stops performing expertise and starts practicing care.

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John Kim

Single On Purpose

Single is not the absence of love. It is the place where love stops being a rescue fantasy and becomes a daily practice.

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Gary Chapman

The 5 Love Languages

Love becomes practical when we stop asking whether we meant it and start asking whether it landed.

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