An Intimate Affair

Intimate apparel, a term in use by 1921, has played a crucial role in the development of the "naughty but nice" feminine ideal that emerged in the twentieth century. Jill Fields's engaging, imaginative, and sophisticated history of twentieth-century lingerie tours the world of women's intimate apparel and arrives at nothing less than a sweeping view of twentieth-century women's history via the undergarments they wore. Illustrated throughout and drawing on a wealth of evidence from fashion magazines, trade periodicals, costume artifacts, Hollywood films, and the records of organized labor, An Intimate Affair is a provocative examination of the ways cultural meanings are orchestrated by the "fashion-industrial complex," and the ways in which individuals and groups embrace, reject, or derive meaning from these everyday, yet highly significant, intimate articles of clothing.

A Guide to Rebuilding Trust and Intimacy It's devastating to discover that the person you trust the most has betrayed you. You'll be facing some hard questions after learning of your partner's infidelity. You may choose to rebuild your relationship, or you may decide to move on. Whatever the right decision is for you, this book will help you figure out why your partner betrayed you and decide whether you can remain in your relationship. It will also show you new ways to relate that can help you and your partner become a lasting, loving, and committed couple. You'll start by taking a look at the phenomenon of infidelity and the three types of intimacy: self-intimacy, conflict intimacy, and affection intimacy. Then you'll learn about the three kinds of infidelity—those of fear, of loneliness, and of anger—and what each reveals about your relationship. Then it's on to practical exercises that can heal emotional wounds and enable you to recover your ability to trust. Even if you decide not to remain with your current partner, the book will help you make wise relationship choices to "affair-proof" your future relationship.

Nothing destroys trust like sexual betrayal. Beyond broken vows, a woman who discovers that the man she loves has been viewing pornography or having an affair must deal with devastating blows to her self-image and self-worth. She must grapple with the fact that the man she thought she knew has lied and deceived her. She may even bear the brunt of shame and judgment when the people around her find out. Drawing from her experience both as a marriage and family therapist and a woman who personally experienced the devastation of sexual betrayal, Dr. Sheri Keffer walks women impacted by betrayal through the pain and toward recovery. She explains how the trauma of betrayal affects our minds, bodies, spirits, and sexuality. She offers practical tools for dealing with emotional triggers and helps women understand the realities of sexual addiction. And she shows women how to practice self-care, develop healthy boundaries, protect themselves from abuse or manipulation, and find freedom from the burden of shame and guilt.

(Applause Books). Day by day, scandal by scandal, triumph by triumph, incurable film fan Harry Haun has squeezed the juice out of the past 100 years at the movies with a surprise on every page. This book is for everyone with an addiction to the movies even Betty Ford can't cure.

"I want to be your lover, your sub in bondage", she whispered while she pressed her knees deep between Liz' legs. Liz looked into her eyes and nodding slowly she took Amy's face between her hands and kissed her tenderly on her lips. And so begins Amy's intimate affair with a lesbian woman, after a desperate self-bondage attempt to salvage her married love-life. But the experiment misfired, leaving her helplessly gagged, tied and suspended. She is 'rescued' by her lesbian next-door neighbor and it leads to her first ever lesbian experience.More and more dissatisfied with her almost non-existent married sex life, she yearns for the thrill of that frightening but arousing lesbian experience. The memory of those knowing fingers that played so skillfully with her helplessly bound body, bringing her just to the edge and then leaving her begging.... Unable to resists the growing urge, she soon becomes deeply enmeshed in a lesbian love-affair that changes her life forever and has dire consequences for her domineering husband.

Provides information and advice on infidelity in a relationship in which one partner begins to have an emotional connection with some else, discussing how to recognize, address, and prevent emotional affairs.

Do you think emotional affairs are more harmful than sexual affairs? Think about it; suddenly and unexpectedly you find out that someone else is or has been depending on your significant other for emotional attention, love and possibly financial support. Someone else is getting the love, support and attention you are supposed to be getting. Don’t you agree that your relationship may be at risk? See, if you have caught your significant other having a one night stand, or a temporary sexual affair, and (s) he decides to end it voluntarily, then it is up to you to decide to forgive and resume with your relationship. Perhaps, the two of you should revise and set new boundaries, or benefit from therapeutic interventions. However, with emotional affairs, is not that easy to forgive and move on, because you do not have sufficient and concrete evidence to prove your significant other’s emotional or sexual affairs, which tend to be elusive by nature. You can choose to remain emotionally trapped and deceived or demand respect and the truth.

Making it up the aisle was the easy part: Rebecca "Bex" Porter must survive her own scandals and adjust to royal British life in this "positively delicious" follow-up to The Royal We that's "just as fun, charming, and delightful as the first" (Taylor Jenkins Reid). After a scandalous secret turns their fairy-tale wedding into a nightmare, Rebecca "Bex" Porter and her husband Prince Nicholas are in self-imposed exile. The public is angry. The Queen is even angrier. And the press is salivating. Cutting themselves off from friends and family, and escaping the world's judgmental eyes, feels like the best way to protect their fragile, all-consuming romance. But when a crisis forces the new Duke and Duchess back to London, the Band-Aid they'd placed over their problems starts to peel at the edges. Now, as old family secrets and new ones threaten to derail her new royal life, Bex has to face the emotional wreckage she and Nick left behind: with the Queen, with the world, and with Nick's brother Freddie, whose sins may not be so easily forgotten—nor forgiven.