THE BEST KEPT SECRET: MEN AND WOMEN’S STORIES OF LASTING LOVE
Book ID/图书代码： 02000005B07309
English Summary/英文概要： In this book, relationship psychologist Janet Reibstein explores the secrets of real couples who have happy, long-lasting relationships. This insight comes as a real breath of fresh air in the midst of all the negativity and pessimism that is attached to the ideals of marriage and long-lasting relationships. It’s makes for a really fascinating read. Here’s the blurb:
Statistics show rising divorce and fractured partnerships, but conceal another story: those that last happily. How such couples achieve their happiness has remained their secret - until now.
Janet Reibstein, an internationally known psychologist with an emphasis on couples, has talked in depth to over 200 couples whose partnerships are happy and enduring. Here she flings open the curtains covering private relationships: both partners in couples married and unmarried, gay and straight, talk candidly and profoundly about their lives together. They tell hidden tales of success: what’s worked, what hasn’t; what problems crop up, how they’ve overcome them; the importance or not of commitment, monogamy, sex, romance, pleasure, perspective, autonomy and independence, and of children (both joint and from previous relationships), friends, relatives, ex-partners and in-laws. The nitty-gritty of real life emerges, yielding simple rules for how to conduct relationships to maximize their potential for happiness.
The book will unearth many surprises. By telling secrets, large and small, up to now locked away behind private doors, by deconstructing how couples do it, in simple layman’s terms filtered through the eyes of an relationship expert, this book convinces that life-long love is a real, achievable possibility.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在這部作品中，兩性心理學家Janet Reibstein探討了真實生活中，生活美滿、感情長久的伴侶幸福的秘訣。這猶如一劑新鮮空氣，為原本彌漫著消極悲觀的婚姻，和所謂天長地久的感情注入了一絲活力。
統計數字表明了居高不下的離婚率和越來越多的破碎情感，台灣去（2006）年有6萬4千5佰4拾對離婚，平均每天就有一七七對夫妻「一拍兩散」，離婚率高居亞洲第一。事實上，還是有許多情感能維繫一生的伴侶。他們如何做到彼此相愛的呢？
國際知名心理學家，專門研究兩性關係 Janet Reibstein和二百多位情感、婚姻生活相當幸福長久的夫婦促膝談心，掀開了其中的秘密：伴侶中的兩個人，不管是已婚，還是未婚，不管是同性戀還是異性戀，都應該坦誠相談。他們講述了幸福婚姻的秘密：什麼管用，什麼不管用；什麼樣的問題會出現，他們如何克服這些問題的；婚姻誓言，一夫一妻制，性、浪漫、快樂、觀點、自治性，獨立性的重要性；孩子---不管是兩人一起生的還是前一次婚姻遺留下來的、朋友、親人、以前的情侶和親家也是非常重要的。
Janet Reibstein歸納出簡單易行的法則，幫助伴侶如何將情感生活中的幸福潛能最大化。長相廝守不是不可能的，我們人人都可以做到。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Janet Reibstein 是大學講師、臨床醫生、作家以及兩性心理廣播員，已經寫了三本與兩性、婚姻、家庭等相關議題的書。身為美國人的她目前與丈夫以及兩個兒子居住於英國，最近於艾克斯特大學任教，前一本書 Staying Alive: A Family Memoir於2002年出版。
Janet Reibstein is a university lecturer, clinician, writer and broadcaster on the psychology of relationships. She has written three previous books about relationships, marriages and family. An American, she lives in the UK with her husband and two sons, and currently teaches at the University of Exeter. Her last book, Staying Alive: A Family Memoir, was published by Bloomsbury in 2002.
http://www.divorce.co.uk/whocanhelp/whoweare/jr.htm
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