Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-339) and index.
Contents:
What is a healthy couple anyway? -- Relationship stages -- The challenge of separateness and togetherness -- Creating a climate for intimacy -- Understanding differences -- Communicating -- Managing conflict -- Sex -- Making decisions : living arrangements -- More decisions : work, money, time, and play -- Lesbian couples with children -- Friends, family, and sense of community -- Cross-cultural/cross-racial couples -- Recovery and healing -- Disability and chronic illness -- Later life -- Endings -- Beginning again.
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