R.E. Geffner MD – författare

Dementia, The Relationship Without Cognition is a compassionate guide for couples navigating love in the face of cognitive decline. When dementia enters a relationship, the loss is not only memory-it is connection, presence, and shared identity. Yet love does not end with the diagnosis. With patience, understanding, and compassion, relationships can find new meaning even as cognition fades. Blending medical insight with emotional honesty, R.E. Geffner, MD offers guidance for partners, families, and caregivers who struggle to maintain closeness while confronting the profound changes dementia brings. This book explores how emotional bonds can endure even when logic, memory, and reasoning begin to disappear.* Inside you will discover how to:* Stay emotionally and physically connected* Navigate grief, role changes, and resilience* Create routines that foster closeness, and dignity* Preserve identity, love, and mutual respect

How to Avoid Deception and Cheating in RelationshipsCheating does not begin with a single decision. It begins with a system of small, predictable moments most people fail to recognize.In this book, R. E. Geffner, MD, reveals the two forces within every person-commitment and desire-and explains why they often move in opposite directions. He shows that attraction is automatic, but actions are chosen, and that ordinary people slowly cross boundaries through attention, validation, secrecy, and rationalization.Step by step, he explains how deception often develops gradually rather than all at once. It may begin with a look that lingers too long, a conversation that becomes more personal, or a message dismissed as harmless. Over time, emotional boundaries weaken, private communication increases, and emotional attachment begins to grow in secrecy. He reveals how opportunity, environment, unmet emotional needs, and ego can slowly overpower good intentions and why many people recognize the warning signs long before they finally cross the line.More importantly, this book is a playbook for control. It teaches how to interrupt impulses in real time, create boundaries that actually work, manage digital temptation, and rebuild connection within the relationship so outside attention loses its power.This is not about being perfect.It is about becoming someone who does not cross the line even when given the chance.

This thoughtful and deeply reflective work explores one of the most enduring and complex relationships in human life: the bond between parents and their children. Through a clear and compelling lens, it examines how this relationship is formed, how it evolves over time, and why it can become strained despite a foundation of love and sacrifice. Beginning with the early years of nurturing and dependence, the book follows the parent child connection across the full span of life, including the inevitable shift as children become adults and roles begin to change. It explores the powerful interplay between instinct and morality, asking whether love and sacrifice create an unspoken obligation of reciprocity, or whether such responsibility must be freely chosen. With honesty and depth, it also addresses the often painful disconnect that can develop between parents and adult children, uncovering the hidden causes of distance, misunderstanding, and emotional conflict. Rather than offering simple answers, this book invites readers to reflect on their own experiences, beliefs, and responsibilities. It is a profound exploration of love, duty, and the lifelong question: what, if anything, do we truly owe to one another?--

Affection and intimacy rarely disappear suddenly.They erode quietly through unmet needs, emotional misalignment, and unspoken distance.When affection and intimacy begin to fade, most people don t argue about it they doubt themselves. They wonder if they re asking for too much, being too sensitive, or expecting something that no longer exists. Over time, emotional distance becomes normalized, and loneliness settles quietly into the relationship.How to Provide and Protect Affection and Intimacy in Healthy Relationships explores how intimacy is sustained, why it fades, and how it can be restored through emotional safety, presence, and mutual responsibility. Designed for thoughtful readers, clinicians, and long-term partners, this book offers insight, language, and practical guidance for repairing connection with dignity and care.This book gives voice to that silence. It helps readers recognize when closeness has been replaced by routine, when touch feels conditional, and when emotional safety has eroded without explanation. More importantly, it offers a way forward that does not rely on pressure, ultimatums, or blameIt helps readers recognize when closeness has been replaced by routine, when touch feels conditional, and when emotional safety has eroded without explanation. More importantly, it offers a way forward that does not rely on pressure, ultimatums, or blame.

Changes in sexual desire are a normal part of long-term relationships, yet they are often misunderstood, misinterpreted, and emotionally charged. When desire shifts, couples frequently internalize blame or experience unnecessary relational strain.How to Keep Your Man, The Biology and Rhythm of Sexual Desire offers a thoughtful, clinically informed exploration of how biological processes, emotional context, and relational timing shape intimacy over time. Rather than treating desire as a fixed trait or moral failing, this book presents it as a dynamic system influenced by hormones, stress physiology, attachment patterns, andemotional safety.Through clear explanations, relatable scenarios, and practical reflection, readers learn how hormones, nervous system responses, life transitions, and emotional connection quietly infl uence desire-often far more than attraction or effort alone. The book shows how mismatched rhythms can create misunderstanding, and how awareness restores connection without pressure, blame, or fearThrough structured insight, practical examples, and guided reflection, readers gain a deeper understanding of how desire is disrupted-and how it can be repaired. Written for couples, individuals, and clinicians alike, this book reframes sexual desire as something to be understood rather than corrected-allowing intimacy to evolve without shame or pressure.