Whether you feel profoundly understood by your partner, or you think their behavior could use an overhaul, this book will encourage you and your partner to take a look into

how you give and receive love. Hint: you normally give love in the way you receive it, but if you're speaking a different love language than your partner is, you may have

to learn theirs, and vice versa. Your primary love language will be: quality time, acts of service, physical touch, gifts, or words of affirmation, and oftentimes, there's one in close

second, serving as your secondary love language. Knowing what is most likely to inspire you or your partner to feel the love can make all of the difference.

Whether you'd like to contemplate your own gender identities, and feel more connected, or delve into what your future son or daughter may experience, this is a book worth picking

up. You don't have to be in a same sex, or gender relationship to gain insight from how our modern society socializes children into believing the dichotomy of male and female

behaviors. Neuroscience and humor help wash this read down.

If you're into long, steamy, romantic, cerebral love stories, this one will knock your socks off. Take turns reading excerpts aloud, or curl up in your bed and read in silent

anticipation. 

If you've been together for a while, and want to kink things up a notch (not a typo!) then leave it to sex educator and author Esther Perel to teach

you how to keep it, or make it that much hotter, wherever you are with your S.O.

Whether you need a cure or this read is pre-emptive to a trial you feel brewing, the relationship cure takes a cue from method acting, and exploring the bid for

connection," backed up by longitudinal research studies that will validate the advice you seek.

If you'd like to talk about the nature of love with your boo, this will get the conversation started. Fromm's controversial way of looking at love could enlighten your relationship.

He thinks that love is a choice, and that nobody falls in love, but rather, stands in it. More on that in the book!

It's the story of love and loss and the connection between the two. There are two narrators in the novel and they both take you on a journey of being

lonely, taking refuge in one another, losing it all, and what's to come next. It's an emotional roller coaster, binded, and ready for you to leap into the pages of.

If you're deep into the throes of passionate love, this book can help contextualize what you're feeling. It's written in a dictionary-layout, with words defined and descriptions granted, to make

the ever-elusive feeling of love make at least a little more sense.

Do you have 10 weeks and a relationship that's just dragging along? If you're no longer loving your love life or lover, crack open "Getting The Love You Want," and

be guided through exercises in mindfulness to reconnect with the love you once considered undeniable. 

The fiercely feminist story explores why you need, or don't need a significant other. If you fear you and your partner are enmeshed, this book can help you take a

step back, and explore the perils of being too close, through the eyes of a fictional character you'll come to know and love.