All You Need Is Love And Other Lies About Marriage

We all know that half of today''s marriages end in divorce, but we tend to believe that our own marriages are safe. As psychiatrist John Jacob explains in All You Need Is Love: And Other Lies About Marriage, marriages today are incredibly fragile, and unless a couple understands what is making a contemporary marriage so vulnerable to dissolution, the marriage is at risk. And yet, most people don''t acknowledge the problems in their marriage until it is too late. Of course marriage is about love, but that''s just the beginning. We tend to believe in the ''lies of marriage''--such concepts as soul mates, unconditional love, that children improve a relationship, that the sexual revolution has made marital sex more pleasurable, or that egalitarian marriage offers couples easy solutions--and forget to engage in the constant hard work required to keep our marriages alive. In All You Need Is Love Dr. Jacobs believes that most marriages have significant problems at some time, but until we recognize the new realities of marriage and develop the skills required to sustain a loving, intimate relationship, marriages are at risk.

About the author

John W. Jacobs, M.D., is a psychiatrist in private practice in Manhattan. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine where he teaches couples and family therapy to psychiatric residents. He lives in New York City with his wife and children.

Product details

• Authors: John W. Jacobs, John W. M. D. Jacobs
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2005
• EAN: 9780060509316
• ISBN: 978-0-06-050931-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 202 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; SELF-HELP: Personal Growth / General, SELF-HELP: Personal Growth / Happiness, SELF-HELP: Personal Growth / Memory Improvement, PSYCHOLOGY: Mental Health, SELF-HELP: Personal Growth / Self-Esteem, SELF-HELP: Personal Growth / Success, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Dysfunctional Families, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Dating, PSYCHOLOGY: Psychotherapy / Couples & Family, PSYCHOLOGY: Psychotherapy / General