What is the secret of a long and contented marriage?
In this book, Anne Power interviews contented couples in the US and the UK to discuss how they found each other and what made it work. As well as couples brought together by family arrangement or random romance, we meet those introduced deliberately by friends, or through agencies and the internet. Almost all the couples interviewed had faced major challenges along the way - but their attachment grew and relationships survived. In this book they tell us why.
The author uses some of the questions she puts to new couples in therapy: What does an argument look like? How has sex been across the years? Who has grown up the most over their time together? What stopped them from becoming a divorce statistic?
Woven through the book are expert, jargon-free explanations of how couples attach, how they fight and how they repair. Each chapter ends with questions which invite us to reflect on our own relationships and to benefit personally from this chance to eavesdrop on contented couples.
- ISBN10 1913494462
- ISBN13 9781913494469
- Publish Date 26 May 2022
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Confer Books
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 224
- Language English