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Resources
``You are the known way leading always to the unknown,`` wrote Wendell Berry in a poem called The Country of Marriage. ``And you are the known place to which the unknown is always leading me back.``
Articles and Scholarship
Love has many forms, many expressions… as someone once wrote, it “finds a way.” Here we have resources that should help anyone considering the opening of their own nest. No, not a complete list, yet. But with your help, we can turn this into a real library of riches.
Your assignment: send us an email with links to books, podcasts, articles, individuals that you find useful. We will be sure to add them here: Tessa.
ARTICLES
- Living Apart Together (Time Magazine)
- The Magic of Our Paradoxical Lives
- 50 Tips from couples together 50 years
- Open Relationships (NY Times)
- The Basic Need for Sex at All Ages
- Feathering the Empty Nest (NY Times)
- Travelling Solo (Aging.com)
- Overcoming Intimacy Challenges After 50 (Nextavenue.org)
- From Empty Nest to No Nest
- The Attachment Style Quiz (Personal Development School)
- Older Couples Stay Together Because the Live Apart (WSJ)
- The Ethical Slut (Rolling Stone)
- We’re lucky if we get to be old
- Can you Access the Joy and Benefits of Flow in Lockdown? (Psychology Today)
- Make a Mistake? You Grew Your Brain
- Kink and Trust: How Some Trauma Survivors Find Healing Through BDSM
PODCASTS
- Rose Woman Podcast
- Loving without Boundaries (Interview with Tessa & Amir)
- Esther Perel: Where Should We Begin
- Loving Without Boundaries
- Pleasure Mechanics
- The Radio Vagabond
- On Being (Krista Tippet)
- Death Sex, and Money (Anna Sale)
- Unblocking Us (Brené Brown)
- Extra Pack of Peanuts (Travel)
- Rough Translation (Travel)
- Extremities (Travel)
- Normalizing Non-Monogamy
- Speak Sex with Eve
- Sisters of Sexuality
- The Bed Hoppers
- Interview with Tessa and Amir (Sumati Sparks)
BOOKS
- Sexual Personae (Camille Paglia)
- Broken Open (Elizabeth Lesser)
- Vagina (Naomi Wolf)
- Sex at Dawn (Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jetha)
- Book Sources for Empty Nesters (Stephanie Elliot)
- How We Live Now (Bella DePaulo)
- This Chair Rocks (Ashton Applewhite)
- Going Gypsy (David and Veronica James)
- Passionate Marriage (David Schnarch)
- Designer Relationships (Michaels & Johnson)
- Bolder: Making the Most of our Longer Lives (Carl Honoré)
- This Chair Rocks (Ashton Applewhite)