Flourishing Love: A Secular Guide to Lasting Intimate Relationships

Flourishing Love is a secular defense of marriage and long-term intimate partnership that rejects a moral–religious code and puts faith in the human potential for benevolence, loyalty, and forgiveness. It provides a how-to for engaging in attentive and sensitive communication, employing a fairness habit of mind, optimally moving through and beyond conflict, using humor to enhance closeness, keeping an erotic spark alive, and ethically handling urges to stray outside the couple.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 248 pages
Publication date: 19 October 2023
Publisher: Karnac Books

Flourishing Love is a secular defense of marriage and long-term intimate partnership that rejects a moral-religious code to govern love lives. Instead, it puts its faith in the human potential for couples to be benevolent, loyal, and forgiving to preserve and enhance their romantic union. Dr. Gnaulati draws on a variety of sources to present the joint emotional upkeep necessary to make an intimate relationship not just satisfactory but vital. These sources include the latest science, anecdotes from his own 30-year marriage, psychotherapy practice, the musings of ancient and contemporary philosophers, and real-life interviews from partners in long-term happy marriages and intimate unions.

The result is a how-to of engaging in attentive and sensitive communication; employing a fairness habit of mind around household chores, child-rearing responsibilities, and finances; optimally moving through and beyond conflict; using humor to enhance closeness; keeping an erotic spark alive; and ethically handling urges to stray outside the couple. This book is a must-read for all those who crave meaning, happiness, and fulfillment in life and need their romantic partnerships to help, not hinder, in this endeavor.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800132085