Uncoupling: Turning Points in Intimate Relationships

Uncoupling: Turning Points in Intimate Relationships
ISBN-10
0679730028
ISBN-13
9780679730026
Category
Family & Relationships
Pages
274
Language
English
Published
1990-09-05
Publisher
Vintage
Author
Diane Vaughan

Description

Drawing from extensive research and in-depth interviews, an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to understand—or prevent—the collapse of a relationship. How do relationships end? Why does one partner suddenly become discontented with the other—and why is the onset of that discontentment not so sudden after all? What signals do partners send each other to indicate their doubts? Why do those signals so often go unnoticed? And how do people who saw themselves as part of a couple come to terms not just with absence and abandonment, but with a new, single identity? This groundbreaking book reveals a process that begins in secret but gradually becomes public, implicating not only partners but their social milieu. Enlightening, accessible, and deeply affecting, Uncoupling offers a startling vision of what really happens behind the surface when relationships come apart.

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