Loving Your Partner as a Package Deal

摘要

Sometimes it's overmoney. Sometimes it's over sex. Sometimes it's over the dirty laundry on the floor. But all couples fight. And, research shows, most argue about the same things, over and over again. It's human nature to assume change-on the otherper-son'spart, of course-is the solution. In a talk with Newsweek's Pat Wingert, noted marriage researcher Andrew Christensen, coauthor with the late Neil Jacobson of "Reconcil-able Differences" (The GuilfordPress. $23.95), makes the case that acceptance rather than change may be the key to a happier marriage.