by Laura | Feb 14, 2013
By now we all know that 50% of first marriages end in divorce. From there it just gets worse; the failure rate for second marriages is a startling 65%. Stephen Martin, president of the California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists, and Emmy Award-winning...
by Laura | Feb 5, 2012
Author Deborah Tannen, a professor of linguistics at Georgetown, has written a number of academic books and articles about the nature of human conversation, particularly as it relates to gender. In You Just Don’t Understand, which spent four years on the New...
by Laura | Oct 1, 2011
Based on case studies and extensive research at author John Gottman’s own Institute, this book moves beyond common-sense platitudes about marriage to an approach based on solid scientific principles. Gottman is one of the best marriage experts out there. He is a...
by Laura | Feb 18, 2011
Drawing on a wealth of research spanning 10,000 people and 37 cultures, David Buss has written a compelling study of the evolutionary origins of human sexual behavior. Men and women bring very different strategies to the challenge of finding and keeping a mate, all of...
by Laura | Feb 3, 2011
Like Elizabeth’s Gilbert’s previous memoir, the bestseller Eat, Pray, Love, Committed also begins in crisis. In EPL, she is leaving her first marriage—and ends on a happy note when she falls in love with Felipe, an older divorcee living in Brazil....
