These days, many of us enjoy unrivalled freedom and equality when it comes to choosing and building a relationship. Yet new myths about how to live and love compromise that happiness.
Kate Figes argues that, whether married or cohabiting, gay or straight, remarried or a couple living apart, the quality of our intimate relationship is fundamental to our long-term health and happiness, because our need for commitment and love hasn't changed.
This is not a handbook. There are no easy 'Mars and Venus' universal recipes for success, because relationships are far too complicated, individual and important for easy answers. But learning how others sustain lifelong love, and what really goes on in other people's lives can help us to understand our own partnerships and take responsibility for making them work. Couples is an incisive and important look at how we can learn to make love endure.
| ISBN: | 9781844084708 |
| Publication date: | 2nd February 2012 |
| Author: | Kate Figes |
| Publisher: | Virago an imprint of Little, Brown |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 406 pages |
| Genres: |
Psychology Dating, relationships, living together and marriage: advice and issues Relationships and families: advice and issues Family and health |
These days, many of us enjoy unrivalled freedom and equality when it comes to choosing and building a relationship. Yet new myths about how to live and love compromise that happiness.
Kate Figes argues that, whether married or cohabiting, gay or straight, remarried or a couple living apart, the quality of our intimate relationship is fundamental to our long-term health and happiness, because our need for commitment and love hasn't changed.
This is not a handbook. There are no easy 'Mars and Venus' universal recipes for success, because relationships are far too complicated, individual and important for easy answers. But learning how others sustain lifelong love, and what really goes on in other people's lives can help us to understand our own partnerships and take responsibility for making them work. Couples is an incisive and important look at how we can learn to make love endure.
Couples features in the following genres: Psychology, Dating, relationships, living together and marriage: advice and issues, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Family and health
Couples is available in Paperback
Couples was written by Kate Figes and published by Virago an imprint of Little, Brown
Couples has 406 pages
£8.99