American couples’ ambitions for personally fulfilling marriages have never been higher nor—given the high rates of divorce—more elusive. Thus, as Rebecca Davis tells us in her history of marriage counseling, it is no surprise that engaged and married couples increasingly have turned to experts to help them anticipate and navigate the peaks and valleys of married life. In (...)
November 30, 1999
Books
For Worse
More Perfect UnionsThe American Search for Marital BlissRebecca L. DavisHarvard University Press, $29.95, 336 pp.
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