Close Relationships: Perspectives on the Meaning of Intimacy

192 pp. 8vo. CONTENTS: Preface; 1. The Embrace of Lives: Changing and Unchanging; 2. Interpersonal Relationships: Some Questions and Observations; 3. Private Lives and Public Order: A Critical View of the History of Intimate Relations in the United States; 4. Needed Research on Commitment in Marriage; 5. An Application of Attribution Theory to Research Methodology for Close Relationships; 6. Insiders' and Outsiders' Views of Relationships: Research Strategies; 7. Re-Viewing the Close Relationship; 8. Orientations to the Close Relationship; Author Index; Contributors.