A wise, radical and optimistic approach to the stresses of marriage and midlife from a leading clinical psychologist.
Daphne de Marneffe is a psychologist and the author of Maternal Desire- On Children, Love, and the Inner Life. In her clinical practice, she offers psychotherapy to couples and individuals. She teaches and lectures widely on marriage, couple therapy, adult development and parenthood. She and her husband have three children and live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In this beautifully reasoned, highly personal, and very generous
book of advice and analysis, Daphne de Marneffe proposes that the
rough patch that occurs in most midlife relationships should be
cherished. For those who can endure it, it can generate a new
reciprocity, deepening the very intimacies it threatened to break.
De Marneffe writes with poetry, wit, and compassion about the
necessity of struggle in the quest for true love. Anyone in any
relationship at any stage of life could stand to learn from the
wisdom in these pages.
*Andrew Solomon*
Bravo for this personable, wise, radical and optimistic approach to
the often seismic stresses of marriage and midlife, by a leading
clinical psychologist who uses fascinating case studies to
illuminate her advice about how to deal with the significant
challenges which often arise in relationships once we’re in our
forties and fifties.
*Bookseller*
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