Contents
Author's Notes
Acknowledgments
Part One: Marriage and Happiness
1. The Question: What Makes Marriages Happy?
2. The Answer: Compatibility
3. How Love Fits In
4. Love Is Private, Marriage Is Public
5. Different Kinds of Marriages
6. Filling in the Details: Your (My) Questions Answered
Part Two: Choosing the Right Person
7. Avoiding Bad News
8. Feeling Your Compatibility
9. The Practical Dimension
10. The Sexual Dimension
11. The Wavelength Dimension
12. Yikes! What Do We Do Now? And Your (My) Other Questions Answered
13. After You Get Married
14. Devotion
Endnotes
For Further Reading
Permissions
Chapter One
The Question: What Makes Marriages Happy?
Mystified by Love
A young woman call her Jane sits on the couch in my consulting room. She
is wearing a tailored wool suit and has the crisp, put-together look of the
successful career woman that she is. Jane is distraught and tearful. Her long,
straight hair sweeps across her face as she cries. Between her sobs, this is
what she says:
I don't know if I love Bob anymore. ... read full excerpt from Will Our Love Last?: A Couple's Road Map ebook