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In this unique book, a clinical psychologist and an award-winning science writer reveal the keys to sustaining a happy and long-lasting relationship. Based on intimate interviews with 50 husbands and wives who consider themselves to be happily married, The Good Marriage describes the four basic types of marriage and explores nine basic tasks to achieve a good relationship.

"The strength of this study is that Ms. Wallerstein, a gifted interviewer, persuades the couples to reveal their interior lives in rich, explicit detail."

Susan Jacoby, New York Times Book Review, 6/4/95

"...[A] remarkably sunny and affecting portrait of marriage and its satsifactions. What we learn is that a good marriage falls into the art of the possible....The bok implicitly presents marriage as a school of virtue, a domain that requires tact and restraint along with open and honest communication, kindness and gratitude along with assertiveness and autonomy. Good marriages are not free of conflict. However, the conflict is governed by a respect for the partner's deepest vulnerabilities."

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 1995

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