The Marriage Truth
A marriage is lived through daily agreements, not only through the story of how it began. The Marriage Truth directs attention to expectations, responsibilities and the difference between a shared commitment and an unspoken assumption.
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Use the reading to identify conversations that have been postponed. Questions about effort, loyalty, money and autonomy become more useful when made specific enough for two people to answer without guessing what the other means.
A question to explore before reading
Which agreement in your relationship exists only in your own mind?
Keep this question alongside your own experience as you compare the perspectives in the library.
Explore the subject first.
These original journal essays offer a way into related questions.
You Invited the Guests. Did You Agree on the Evening?
Privacy Is a Boundary. Secrecy Changes the Agreement.A perspective for your reading
Use the reading to identify conversations that have been postponed. Questions about effort, loyalty, money and autonomy become more useful when made specific enough for two people to answer without guessing what the other means.
A question to carry into the book
Continue this line of inquiry with THE SEX CONTRACT. What have you interpreted as a promise that the other person never actually made?
Build your next reading connection
- THE SEX CONTRACT — Intimate relationships often include expectations that have never been spoken as agreements.
- CyGuru Parenting Code — Parenting involves the repeated experience of being a person while being responsible for another person.
- CyGuru Psychology of SEX — Sex can carry meanings that are not immediately visible in the act itself: acceptance, reassurance, status, closeness or escape.
