Lesbian Ex-Lovers

<p><i>We have earned a certain place in each other’s lives and in the best of times we can rest on what we have made together.</i><br><br> Lesbian Ex-Lovers: The Really Long-Term Relationships examines the need for the development of better understanding and more critical analysis of lesbian ex-lover relationships. This eye-opening look into the minds and hearts of women offers personal insight into the possibilities for and potential pitfalls of lesbian ex-lover relations. This book contains personal stories fictional accounts poetry and theoretical analyses of the frequency and significance of ex-lovers at different stages in a relationship. <br><br> Topics of interest in Lesbian Ex-Lovers include:</p><ul> <li> the roles ex-lovers play in our lives </li> <li> ex-lovers as contexts for change and development </li> <li> how we continue to be influenced by ex-lovers </li> <li> letting go and moving on </li> <li> ex-lovers as current friends and family </li> <li> themes of betrayal and loss of faith </li> <li> reconstructing friendships and community </li> <li> the mystique of the ex-lover </li> <li> friend/family connections among lesbian ex-lovers </li> </ul><p><i>Rather than totally scrap a relationship we recycle itfrom lover to ex-lover to friend in a relatively short half-life.</i><br><br> Lesbian Ex-Lovers is the only book in print that explores how a lesbian’s ex-lovers impact her subsequent romances and lifestyle. This special collection adds a new dynamic to the current literature for and about the lesbian community. <br><br> Lesbian Ex-Lovers offers advice anecdotes and interpretations from such authors poetesses and artists as:</p><ul> <li> Michelle Gibson PhDeducator and editor of <i>Femme/Butch: New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go</i> who says goodbye to her lover in a sad passionate elegy </li> <li> Marny HallPsychotherapist editor of the anthology <i>Sexualities</i> and author of several books including <i>The Lavender Couch: A Consumer’s Guide to Psychotherapy for Lesbians and Gay Men</i>who muses on the unique bonding between lesbians and their ex-lovers lending a mystique that surrounds the lesbian lifestyle </li> <li> Alison Bechdelcreator of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out Forwho presents a humorous comic strip thanking her former lovers for teaching her about herself </li> <li> Jane Futchernewspaper reporter and author of three novelswho uses a chapter in her novel to illustrate the tensions that can occur when ex-lovers choose to remain friends especially when those bonds provoke jealousy in both current and ex-lovers </li> <li> Renny Christophereducator and award-winning poetesswho expresses her love loss and regret in three poems about her ex-lover </li> <li> and much more! </li> </ul>