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Based on a groundbreaking study of newlyweds, The First Year of Marriage explores the challenges and conflicts newly married couples face. Journalist Miriam Arond and Psychiatrist Samuel L. Pauker, M.D. offer valuable insights and comforting answers to essential questions, including how to:

• Successfully deal with parents, in-laws, and stepfamilies
• Negotiate everything from household chores to intimacy
• Develop positive patterns for handling money in marriage
• Juggle commitment to career and each other
• Cultivate a terrific married sex life
• .and much more.

This book "should be required reading before receiving a marital license," says Ira Glick, M.D., coauthor of Marital and Family Therapy.