This is an introductory presentation on how to create and maintain intimacy in long-term relationships. Something in us continues to believe that love can last. But cross-cultural and historical research makes clear that we have always been a species generally given over to serial monogamy. Dr. Hedges will present recent theory and research findings that point us in new directions for how we can establish more rewarding intimate relationships and how we can work together to make love last. 6 CE/CEUs About the presenter: Lawrence E. Hedges, Ph.D., Psy.D., ABPP is a psychologist-psychoanalyst in private practice in Orange, California, specializing in the training of psychotherapists and psychoanalysts. He is director of the Listening Perspectives Study Center and founding director of the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute in Tustin, California where he is a supervising and training.