How to recognize and set healthy boundaries in personal relationships.

Describes the scientific evidence from the author's own research as well as other studies that support his contention that love and intimacy are among the most powerful factors in health and illness, and provides examples from his own life and from the lives of friends, colleagues, and patients.

Born with a rare condition that causes her to suffer degrees of paralysis when experiencing intense emotion, Daphne endures a virtually solitary existence before meeting a shy, charming man who compels her to chose between safe isolation and true intimacy.

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff, and Samuel West
England, 1962: Florence and Edward are celebrating their wedding in a hotel on the Dorset coast. Yet as they dine, the expectation of their marital duties become overwhelming. Unbeknownst to them both, the decisions they make this night will resonate throughout their lives. With exquisite prose, Ian McEwan creates a story of lives transformed...

An affair. It can rob a couple of their relationship, their happiness, their very identity. Why do people cheat, even those in happy marriages? Why does an affair hurt so much? When we say infidelity, what exactly do we mean? Do our romantic expectations of marriage set us up for betrayal? Is there such a thing as an affair-proof marriage? Is it possible to love more than one person at once? Can an affair ever help a marriage? For the past ten years,...

Introduces the author's Emotionally Focused Therapy technique, explaining how to assist couples by treating their relationship as a love-based, attachment bond that can be healed through a reestablishment of safe emotional connections.

In "The proper care and feeding of husbands" a woman's attitude and understanding of men and what they need will make all the difference in the quality of her marriage. "The proper care and feeding of marriage" argues that couples must recognize the polarity between a mutually satisfying marriage, in a guide that draws on examples from the author's call-in radio show.