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If love is a Game what are the rules? Bestselling author Cherie Carter-Scott here provides the 10 rules of love to help us to create the happy, healthy & genuine relationships that we all desire. The 10 rules: You must love yourself first Negotiation will be required Relationships provide opportunities to grow Your relationship will be challenged by change You must nurture the relationship if it is to thrive Creating love is a process Renewal is the key to longevity Communication is essential Partnering is a choice You will also forget all this the moment you fall in love Based on 25 years of conducting healthy relationships workshops on creating, If Love is a Game, These Are the Rules features breakthrough advice, illustrated by heart-warming true stories destined to capture the hearts of women & men around the world. ...

If love is a Game what are the rules? Bestselling author Cherie Carter-Scott here provides the 10 rules of love to help us to create the happy, healthy & genuine relationships that we all desire. The 10 rules: You must love yourself first Negotiation will be required Relationships provide opportunities to grow Your relationship will be challenged by change You must nurture the relationship if it is to thrive Creating love is a process Renewal is the key to longevity Communication is essential Partnering is a choice You will also forget all this the moment you fall in love Based on 25 years of conducting healthy relationships workshops on creating, If Love is a Game, These Are the Rules features breakthrough advice, illustrated by heart-warming true stories destined to capture the hearts of women & men around the world. ...

In the summer of 1911 David Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, hired a young schoolteacher called Frances Stevenson to tutor his daughter in the summer holidays. He was forty-eight, & married with four children. She was twenty-two & had recently graduated with a degree in classics. She was highly intelligent as well as very attractive, & Lloyd George soon began to employ her as his secretary. At the beginning of 1913 they became lovers, on terms spelt out by Lloyd George with ruthless clarity: he would not leave his wife for her, nor would he risk his career. She was to become his private secretary, run his office & share his life as fully as his family & the need to avoid a scandal would allow. Their secret relationship was to last for thirty years until his wife ...

In the summer of 1911 David Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, hired a young schoolteacher called Frances Stevenson to tutor his daughter in the summer holidays. He was forty-eight, & married with four children. She was twenty-two & had recently graduated with a degree in classics. She was highly intelligent as well as very attractive, & Lloyd George soon began to employ her as his secretary. At the beginning of 1913 they became lovers, on terms spelt out by Lloyd George with ruthless clarity: he would not leave his wife for her, nor would he risk his career. She was to become his private secretary, run his office & share his life as fully as his family & the need to avoid a scandal would allow. Their secret relationship was to last for thirty years until his wife ...

Ben Joe is at college studying law when he gets a letter from his family saying one of his six sisters, Joanne, has returned home having left her husb&, bringing her baby with her. Ben Joe goes home, & when he returns he remembers the past, the death of his father, his first girlfriend. He visits his father's girlfriend & then his own ex-girlfriend, Shelley. Shelley now has a boyfriend, John, but they see each other anyway, & in the interim, Joanne starts seeing John, until her husband turns up to take her home. Ben Joe asks Shelley to go back with him & marry him, so once everyone has got back to the way they were, he heads off to college again, with Shelley. ...