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Friends and Lovers
Working Through Relationships
Julian Sleigh
ISBN: 0863152678
Book (Paperback)
Floris Books
$13.95
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This book provides a sensitive look at issues surrounding friendship, intimacy, and loyalty in modern life. Julian Sleigh discusses the joys and pitfalls fo people who are searching together for meaning and happiness in relationship.
Friendship, love, marriage, and divorce —"from rapture to rupture" —are all explored against the background of modern Western culture, where many men and women, social and sexual roles, are being defined amid much confusion. Friendship is a phenomenon, deserving our reverence and awe. It is a gift that each one of us can nurture; it does not just happen. It is precious.
We shall dare to explore this phenomenon. We will touch on areas of soul experience that are tender and not easily put into words. We can search for guidelines that help a person to grow in love, expanding these warm spaces and rejoicing in the power of feeling ... we will strive to reach an understanding of togetherness, and find a way to achieve commitment in friendship that is in line with the freedom that rightly belongs to a modern person. —from Friends and Lovers.
Julian Sleigh is a Christian Community priest and counselor who works in South Africa. He is the author of Crisis Points, a guide to self-help in difficult times in life, and Thirteen to Nineteen, a book for parents with teenagers.
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