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We do know love. Every generation has had its poets and singers to praise it, its cynics and misanthropes to attack it, and its psychologists and philosophers to explain it. No one denies that love is. We argue only about what love is. For there are as many definitions of love as there are lovers. [...]

When we married in 1960, I was nineteen and he was twenty-one and we loved each other madly. Even rereading this sentence makes me so light-headed I should probably lie down right now with a cold, wet cloth on my forehead. (Nineteen and twenty-one and madly in love) Our parents orchestrated a lovely formal reception [...]

One of the necessary ingredients of a workable marriage is trust. “Trust” is defined as “confidence in or reliance on some quality or attribute of a person or thing, or the truth of a statement.” It is also defined as “the quality of being trustworthy; fidelity; loyalty; trustiness.”
More immediately applicable to the marital situation [...]

Since it is important to know something about the several classes of marital therapists, we shall discuss the various different specialists within this group.
The Psychiatrist
Although in the last few years there has been a surge of interest by psychiatrists in the family and in marriage, their training generally does not prepare them to [...]

In this way the big problems of the world are related to everyday problems of sex and marriage. In our most intimate relationships we face the fundamental issues of our time. The solution of each immediate problem requires the same attitudes which alone can solve social problems in general: courage and a sense of responsibility. [...]

In modem industrial society, couples facing a crisis affecting survival often stick together, only to separate when the emergency has passed.
The battle for survival in modem societies is usually a battle for emotional survival and the tools of war are correspondingly psychological, aimed at maiming the enemy’s sell-esteem or causing him shame rather than at [...]

The concepts of a child are very much influenced by his position in the family. In the life of an only child, the parents are the most important figures during his first decisive years of life. The parents’ reaction to the child’s experimental efforts in dealing with them regulates the child’s behavior, although not always [...]

Love, like any other emotion, always functions in the support of the fundamental aims of an individual. The presence or absence of love, its direction and degree, and its durability depend in any given case upon basic attitudes toward the relationship between the self and the other one. Thus, for the individual with a high [...]

The real reasons why we choose a mate usually remain secret and are supplanted by plausible rationalizations. Many believe in marrying for security. There is no security obtainable through marriage. There is no security in life at all Marriage does not solve any problem; it remains a problem in itself, which has to be solved, [...]

So why are you a best man? I mean, you were picked to do the job, but why? You could have said no; you can still say no, can’t you?
Other than being a friend to the person who asked you, why should you go through with it? Obviously it is a personal decision whether to [...]