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Understanding Marriage: Making It Work, or Knowing When to Leave
Understanding Marriage Making It Work or Knowing When to Leave Author:Richard Taylor "How I wish this had been available when I was performing weddings! I would have given a copy to each couple, knowing I could give nothing better." -- John A Taylor, Chaplain emeritus, Cornell University "...a breath of fresh air...pulls aside marriage's white veil to look at the misunderstood institution." -- Dorian Solot, author of UNMARRIED... more » TO EACH OTHER: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO LIVING TOGETHER AS AN UNMARRIED COUPLE "Don't even think about marriage without reading this book." -- Ray Martin, PhD, Chair, Philosophy Department, Union College, Schenectady, New York Based on numerous interviews with people from both good and failed marriages, his own experience, and years of thinking about the subject, philosopher/marriage counselor Richard Taylor develops a set of compelling proposals for reforming marriage. Arguing that the idea of a civil ceremony creating a marriage is little more than a legal fiction, Taylor believes couples become married through years of mutual regard and caring. However, in the event that a marriage doesn't work, he also offers an insightful discussion of mediation as a better means of dissolving marriage than adversarial legal proceedings. In a culture that generates marital unhappiness by fostering romantic fantasies about love and marriage, Taylor's radical prescription for reforming our attitudes toward matrimony makes eminently good sense.« less