13 must-read nonfiction books like Sex Without Stress: A couple's guide to overcoming disappointment, avoidance & pressure by Jessa Zimmerman

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Sex Without Stress: A couple's guide to overcoming disappointment, avoidance & pressure

By: Jessa Zimmerman

4.14

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

Isn’t sex supposed to be easy? Do sexual problems mean I’m in the wrong relationship? How do we get…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Sex Without Stress: A couple's guide to overcoming disappointment, avoidance & pressure by Jessa Zimmerman , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay In or Get Out of Your Relationship by Mira Kirshenbaum

1. Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay In or Get Out of Your Relationship

By: Mira Kirshenbaum

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Mira Kirshenbaum (I Love You, But I Don't Trust You), an international bestselling author and world… read more

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  • relationships
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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2. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert

By: John M. Gottman , Nan Silver

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

John Gottman has revolutionized the study of marriage by using rigorous scientific procedures to ob… read more

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  • relationships
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman by Ian Kerner

3. She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman

By: Ian Kerner

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Ian Kerner offers a radical new philosophy for pleasuring women in She Comes First--anessential gui… read more

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  • relationships
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • self help
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4. The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns

By: Mohnish Pabrai

4.23

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

A comprehensive value investing framework for the individual investor In a straightforward and acce… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help

5. Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

By: Esther Perel

3.79

Format: 704 pages,

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6. Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

By: Emily Nagoski

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research an… read more

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  • relationships
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • self help
"What turns us on (or off) is learned from culture, in much the same way children learn vocabulary and accents from culture."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"You can't make someone be patient any more than you can make someone have an orgasm. You create a great context, and then allow it to happen."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"Please tell everyone you know: If you have responsive desire, you are already normal. No one needs to 'crave' sex out of the blue to be a fully healthy person."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"One more thing about women's external genitals. The name for the whole package of female genitalia is "vulva." "Vagina" refers to the internal reproductive canal that leads up to the uterus. People o…"

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

7. Getting the Love You Want : A Guide for Couples

By: Harville Hendrix

3.92

Format: 358 pages,

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8. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find -- and Keep -- Love

By: Amir Levine , None

3.76

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

Is there a science to love? In this groundbreaking book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levi… read more

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9. Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship

By: Harville Hendrix , Stan Tatkin

3.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

""What the heck is my partner thinking?"" is a common refrain in romantic relationships, and with g… read more

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10. Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

By: Sue Johnson

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

Heralded by the New York Timesand Timeas the couples therapy with the highest rate of success, Emot… read more

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11. The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

By: Grant Cardone

3.60

Format: None pages,

Achieve "Massive Action" results and accomplish your business dreams!While most people operate with… read more

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12. It Starts with the Egg: How the Science of Egg Quality Can Help You Get Pregnant Naturally, Prevent Miscarriage, and Improve Your Odds in IVF

By: Rebecca Fett

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Whether you are trying to conceive naturally or through IVF, the quality of your eggs will have a p… read more

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13. He Comes Next: The Thinking Woman's Guide to Pleasuring a Man

By: Ian Kerner

4.53

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Transform Yourself from "Passion Victim" to Passionista! In the smash hit She Comes First, Ian Kern… read more

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14. ADHD 2.0 : New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—From Childhood Through Adulthood

By: Edward M. Hallowell

4.09

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary new approach to ADD/ADHD featuring cutting-edge research and strategies to help rea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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15. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

By: Richard C. Schwartz

4.15

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

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16. How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

By: Nicole LePera

4.14

Format: 320 pages, ebook

As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Nicole LePera often found herself frustrated by the limitations of … read more

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  • relationships
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids by Jancee Dunn

17. How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids

By: Jancee Dunn

4.08

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

"Get this for your pregnant friends, or yourself" (People): a hilariously candid account of one wom… read more

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  • relationships
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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18. Love Worth Making: How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a Lasting Relationship

By: Stephen Snyder

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The next Mating in Captivity, this is a paradigm-shifting guide to thinking about and enjoying sex … read more

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  • relationships
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • self help
Cover of Sex Without Stress: A couple's guide to overcoming disappointment, avoidance & pressure by Jessa Zimmerman

19. Sex Without Stress: A couple's guide to overcoming disappointment, avoidance & pressure

By: Jessa Zimmerman

4.14

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

Isn’t sex supposed to be easy? Do sexual problems mean I’m in the wrong relationship? How do we get… read more

Similar categories in Jessa Zimmerman's Sex Without Stress: A couple's guide to overcoming disappointment, avoidance & pressure book and Jessa Zimmerman's Sex Without Stress: A couple's guide to overcoming disappointment, avoidance & pressure

  • relationships
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  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • self help
Cover of Unfuck Your Intimacy: Using Science for Better Relationships, Sex, and Dating by Faith G. Harper

20. Unfuck Your Intimacy: Using Science for Better Relationships, Sex, and Dating

By: Faith G. Harper

3.58

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Explore your relationships and sexuality, with yourself and with others, with this new book by Dr. … read more

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  • sexuality
  • self help
"Love is not a nebulous idea. It's not a vague notion of warm and fuzzy. Its the real daily interactions of sharing our lives with someone, caring for them, and having them care for us in return. Love…"

-Faith G. Harper, Unfuck Your Intimacy: Using Science for Better Relationships, Sex, and Dating

Cover of Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein

21. Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

By: Linda Kay Klein

4.17

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangeli… read more

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  • sexuality
"The purity message nestles neatly into the larger “us"

-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

"Surviving gives you a very unique set of skills. It costs a lot. But it also makes you powerful."

-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

"This illustration is picture-perfect purity culture. In short, women's sexuality must be just right, so that men can spiritually thrive."

-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

"[T]he church had embedded the notion that sex was shameful so deeply into her brain that she couldn't shake it now that she was married and it was suddenly supposed to be okay."

-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

12 best-selling self help books like Sex Without Stress: A couple's guide to overcoming disappointment, avoidance & pressure by Jessa Zimmerman

Transform Your Habits

Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay In or Get Out of Your Relationship

Mira Kirshenbaum

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert

John M. Gottman , Nan Silver

3.97

Transform Your Habits

She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman

Ian Kerner

4.33

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The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns

Mohnish Pabrai

4.23

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Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right

Jamie Glowacki

3.90

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Work. Pump. Repeat.: The New Mom's Survival Guide to Breastfeeding and Going Back to Work

Jessica Shortall

3.34

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Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

Abby Craden , Pamela Druckerman

4.02

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Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

Becky Kennedy

4.55

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