The Relate Guide to Sex and Intimacy

For any stage of life or relationship, a level-headed approach enabling you to develop relationship intimacy and sustain a satisfying sex life

Sex and intimacy are what make couple relationships special and different. We may even measure the quality of the relationship by how intimate we feel or how good the sex is. This can be wonderfully reassuring when it goes well, but we all have times in our lives and relationships when we don’t feel so close. When sex isn’t working well or isn’t happening, confidence in the relationship can ebb away, too. Yet there is plenty you can do to turn things around and recapture the fading intimacy. This guide takes a realistic look at modern relationships, steering you through practical exercises, examples, quizzes, and talking points to help give your sexual self and your relationship an intimacy makeover. Comprehensively tackling the issues that challenge sex and intimacy, this book will both equip you to understand and manage problems when they arise and to make a good sex life even better.

Cate Campbell began her career as a nurse, moving into nursing journalism and becoming editor ofNursing Mirror and Nursing magazines before joining Relate as a couple counselor. Following further training and experience as a psychosexual counselor and relationship specialist, Cate is now a Relate Institute lecturer as well as a highly experienced relationship therapist.