Product Description

Statistics show rising divorce rates and fractured partnerships, but they conceal another story: relationships that last happily. How such couples achieve their happiness has remained their secret - until now.Janet Reibstein, an internationally respected psychologist and relationship expert, has talked in depth to over 200 couples whose partnerships are happy and enduring. Here she pulls back the curtains on relationships: both partners in couples married and unmarried, gay and straight, talk candidly and profoundly about their lives together. They tell hidden tales of success: what's worked, what hasn't; what problems crop up, how they've overcome them; the importance or not of commitment, monogamy, sex, romance, pleasure, perspective, autonomy and independence, and of children (both joint and from previous relationships), friends, relatives, ex-partners and in-laws. The nitty-gritty of real life emerges, yielding simple ideas for how to conduct relationships to maximize their potential for happiness.The book will unearth many surprises. By telling secrets, large and small, previously locked away behind closed doors, by deconstructing how couples do it, in simple layman's terms but filtered through the eyes of a relationship expert, this book convinces that life - long love is a real, achievable possibility.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #280628 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
'A fittingly optimistic look at committed relationships that work despite the odds there are delightful nuggets to reward readers' Publishers Weekly 'Refreshing in its candour. It clearly shows the warts of each relationship and the compromises couples make to stay together first-person tales from a number of couples comprise the bulk of the book and make fascinating reading' Chicago Tribune 'This book will unearth many surprises. By telling secrets, large and small, it convinces that lifelong love is a real, achievable possibility' Bazaar

About the Author
Janet Reibstein is a university lecturer, clinician, writer and
broadcaster on the psychology of relationships. She has written three
previous books about relationships, marriages and family. An American, she
lives in the UK with her husband and two sons, and currently teaches at the
University of Exeter. Her last book, Staying Alive: A Family Memoir, was
published by Bloomsbury in 2002.