Intimate Partners: Patterns in Love and Marriage

The definitive book on marriage — on how love relationships are formed, & how they change, over the course of the marital cycle. Why do we choose the mates we choose? What affects the way a love relationship develops? What makes some marriages endure while others splinter apart? These & many other questions are explored in this remarkable book. Sections include: becoming a couple: the power of the past; lovers & other third parties: emotional triangles; the couple in midstream: marital problems, marital solutions; sexuality; the child-launching years: time of transformation; & the postparenting phase: reintegration.