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The Best Kept Secret: How Love Can Last for Ever
Janet Reibstein
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Description for The Best Kept Secret: How Love Can Last for Ever
Paperback. Is there a formula to a lasting relationship? A fascinating study of couples by a relationship expert Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: VFVG; VS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 216. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Statistics showing rising divorce rates and broken relationships abound, but they conceal another story - relationships that are happy and enduring. Janet Reibstein, psychologist and relationship expert, has talked in depth to 200 couples who have stayed happy together. Here she pulls back the curtains to reveal their best-kept secrets. Whether married or unmarried, gay or straight, they talk candidly and profoundly about their lives: what worked, what didn't, how they survived strife and overcame it, the importance or not of commitment, monogamy, sex, romance, autonomy and independence, and of children (their own and from previous relationships), friends, relatives, ex-partners ... Read more
Statistics showing rising divorce rates and broken relationships abound, but they conceal another story - relationships that are happy and enduring. Janet Reibstein, psychologist and relationship expert, has talked in depth to 200 couples who have stayed happy together. Here she pulls back the curtains to reveal their best-kept secrets. Whether married or unmarried, gay or straight, they talk candidly and profoundly about their lives: what worked, what didn't, how they survived strife and overcame it, the importance or not of commitment, monogamy, sex, romance, autonomy and independence, and of children (their own and from previous relationships), friends, relatives, ex-partners ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747586043
SKU
KAK0010793
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Janet Reibstein
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Best Kept Secret: How Love Can Last for Ever
'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 ... Read more