title: Finding the Boyfriend Within: A Practical Guide for Tapping into Your Own Source of Love, Happiness, and Respect
author: Brad Gooch
description: Brad Gooch's take on the self-help genre is a self-described gay updating of Helen Gurley Brown's <i>Sex and the Single Girl</i>, and it's a sensible, straightforward--and welcome--addition to the field. Who is the Boyfriend Within? Simply put, he embodies "qualities we find attractive in ourselves but often imagine others to possess more fully, as well as ... dormant qualities we wish to nurture and grow." This growth process takes place through 16 "Awareness Exercises" that range from identifying the behavior patterns that might be keeping you from having a boyfriend to planning dates with your Boyfriend Within. (And before you crack any jokes, he really does mean dates--be they quiet evenings at home, neighborhood walks, shopping trips, or other activities.) Gooch's own inner boyfriend is a bit like a male version of Midge, the Barbara Bel Geddes character in <i>Vertigo</i>, a constant (but not flashy) source of "sanity, peace, happiness." But, he emphasizes, that's just his own--the love of your inner life may turn out to be completely different. The exercises in <i>Finding the Boyfriend Within</i> hold great promise for fostering self-knowledge and the cultivation of one's goals, not just in romance but in all aspects of life. <i>--Ron Hogan</i>
zlib_text: HOOK ME UP
  BUSINESS OF LOVE 3
  
  ALI PARKER
  
  BRIXBAXTER PUBLISHING
  
  CONTENTS
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  Description
  Introduction
  Dedication
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Chapter 12
  Chapter 13
  Chapter 14
  Chapter 15
  Chapter 16
  Chapter 17
  Chapter 18
  Chapter 19
  Chapter 20
  Chapter 21
  Chapter 22
  Chapter 23
  Chapter 24
  Chapter 25
  Chapter 26
  Chapter 27
  Chapter 28
  Chapter 29
  Chapter 30
  Chapter 31
  Chapter 32
  Chapter 33
  Chapter 34
  Chapter 35
  Chapter 36
  Chapter 37
  Chapter 38
  Chapter 39
  Epilogue
  
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  DE S C RIPT IO N
  Can’t find love? Good. I’m your guy.
  I mean, not your guy per se, but the guy to find you the love of your life.
  I’m the best damn matchmaker there ever was.
  Except when it comes to my own life.
  Why bother? I’m too busy setting up other couples and enjoying success anyway.
  I’ve been hooking people up since I was a teenager. Gre