Intimate Partners: Patterns in Love and Marriage

Author: Maggie ScarfPublisher: Ballantine BooksPaperback:ISBN 10: 0345418204ISBN 13: 978-0345418203“Anyone involved in, embarking on, or yearning for, an intimate relationship should buy, borrow or steal Intimate Partners.”–New WomanWhat goes on in our intimate attachments? What patterns of relationships do couples tend to follow, and why? The bonds we create affect every aspect of our lives, and yet our grasp of them is limited by our emotional reactions and learned responses. Now, in Intimate Partners, bestselling author Maggie Scarf gives us the classic book on marriage–on how love relationships are formed and how they change over the course of the marital cycle. Here you’ll discover• how to understand one’s inherited emotional history–and how fits with a partner’s• the fascinating ways in which power and control, and intimacy and autonomy exert strong effects upon the kind of partnership two people create• surprising observations on the role of sex and the impact of children on mar