| Intuitively, people sense that marriage can be the best me-dium for satisfying their most profound yearning: the need to10ve and be loved. However, their intuition is shaken severelyby a destructively self-centered world that incites everyone tocompete unceasingly for economic and occupational superior-ity over others. Today, men and women are very uncertainabout where to place love in their scale of values, and they areextremely susceptible to the divisive pressures of their individ-ualistic pursuits. They also lack the knowledge essential to as-sure their gratification and to resolve the conflicts that inevita-bly arise between spouses. Burdened by such doubts andconfusion, how is it possible for husbands and wives to pre-serve and deepen the fulfillments of the love for which theymarried? Our answer to this question has emerged from a long andintensive study. Naturally, we familiarized ourselves with theextensive literature on love and marriage. We also drew onrelevant writings in social philosophy, human sexuality, inti-mate relationships, personality development, and family sys-tems theory. In addition, we interviewed couples who hadbeen married for varying lengths of time, taking them step bystep through an open-ended questionnaire we designed for |
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