Jim Fleckenstein
Last Aired on August 22, 2025
Jim has devoted over two decades to learning about and understanding intimate relationships (especially nonmonogamy) and helping others. He's also been dedicated to sharing what he's learned with professionals, and has been tapped repeatedly by prestigious groups to do just that - with excellent results!
Not satisfied with only doing outreach to professionals, he wanted a formal process that synthesized all he'd learned. So Jim developed the Affirmative Intimacy ®approach - allowing him to apply his insights directly to aiding ordinary people struggling to maintain or improve their relationships.
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Book: Love That Works
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CONSENSUAL NON-MONOGAMY AND LOVE THAT WORKS
August 22, 2025
Are you looking for a wider understanding of the consequences of opening-up your relationship? What are the pros and cons of adding consensual non-monogamy into your couple?
Join us with Intimacy Expert and Relationship Coach, Jim Fleckenstein, Author of ‘Love That Works: 38 Awesome Hacks for Amazing Relationships”, as we chat about how to decide if non-monogamy is right for you and if yes, how to approach your partner and deal with the reactions and opinions of friends and family about your choice.
Love That Works
Love that Works gives you the keys to a happier and more fulfilling relationship. The principles of Affirmative Intimacy® apply to monogamous relationships, but especially to nonmonogamy! Each "hack" is keyed to a powerful quotation that will prompt new thinking about your relationship.
The book introduces the Four Pillars of Affirmative Intimacy® : Safe Space, Structured Dialog, Mindful Reason, and Differentiation of Self. Many "hacks" are accompanied by worksheets to help you apply what you learn to your own relationship(s) immediately.
What Readers Are Saying...
"[A] wonderfully practical and comprehensive guide to couples’ growth...a concise, user-friendly map showing the way to real-life loving relationships... [A]ny couple’s guide to profound intimacy and love, for a lifetime."
William D. Slaughter, MD, MA - Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
I will ask my next relationship partner to read this book!
Love that Works was easy to read and digest. It gave me exercises to reflect on how I was turning up and destroying trust and demanding the partner "be like me". I learned a lot and I can tell you it wasn't what I expected... Read this book if you want to create a relationship that is authentic and easy to maintain.
Aryana (on Amazon)
"[A]n extraordinary resource for clients and clinicians, jam packed with wisdom, warmth, and innovative concepts. An indispensable book in improving relationships."
P. Michele Sugg, MSW, LCSW, CST - AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, Past-President, American Assn. of Sexuality Educators, Counselors & Therapists
Honest review
The book is fantastic. Each chapter is concise and offers great insight and thoughts on different aspects of relationships. You do not have to read the entire book cover to cover to get a lot out of it. Each chapter is unique and offers fantastic thoughts.
Whether you are in a new relationship, or celebrating your 50th anniversary, there are fantastic tidbits, thought provoking material, and concepts that everyone can pull from. Highly recommended.
Dr. Carrson Morris (on Amazon)
Grow your Relationship with these great ideas
Chock-filled with thought provoking questions challenging the reader to look candidly at their own lives, this book provides a solid path forward to creating an emotionally healthy sense of self and partnership. Based on solid theory and years of experience, it is a must-add to both professionals and the general public.
Lisa B Schwartz (on Amazon)
The Ultimate Guide to Sex after Fifty: How to Maintain - or Regain - a Spicy, Satisfying Sex Life
AUTHOR: Joan Price
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"Sex changes with aging, but for every problem, there is a solution," says Joan Price, "senior sexpert" for the over-fifty population. Her definitive guide to sex and aging has it all: medical challenges, loss of libido, loss of intimacy, dating, elusive orgasms, erectile dysfunction, vaginal pain, self-pleasuring, sex toys, kink, and more. The Ultimate Guide to Sex After Fifty delivers solid, practical information in a friendly, accessible style to help all genders and orientations, partnered or unpartnered, enjoy their sexuality for the rest of their lives.
We of the boomer-and-beyond generation want information about the sexual changes, questions, and concerns we’re experiencing. The Ultimate Guide to Sex after Fifty offers straightforward, nonjudgmental information and immediately useful tips, spiced with comments from Joan's readers.
People over fifty who hunger for real information from an age-appropriate author will appreciate Joan Price's savvy advice, personal candor, and humor. Whether you have a vibrant sex life or an unfulfilling one that you'd like to fix, The Ultimate Guide to Sex After Fifty will be a valuable resource.
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