Couple Relationships in the 21st Century

Who and how we love may be changing but our desire to be in a relationship endures. This book presents an incisive account of how couples experience, understand and sustain long-term relationships, exploring the emotional, practical and biographical resou

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Lynn Jamieson, Ruth Lewis and Roona Simpson (editors) RESEARCHING FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS Reflections on Process Carmen Lau Clayton BRITISH CHINESE FAMILIES Parenting, Relationships and Childhoods Lara McKenzie AGE-DISSIMMILAR COUPLES AND ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS Ageless Love? David Morgan RETHINKING FAMILY PRACTICES Petra Nordqvist, Carol Smart RELATIVE STRANGERS Family Life, Genes and Donor Conception Róisín Ryan-Flood LESBIAN MOTHERHOOD Gender, Families and Sexual Citizenship Sally Sales ADOPTION, FAMILY AND THE PARADOX OF ORIGINS A Foucauldian History Tam Sanger TRANS PEOPLE’S PARTNERSHIPS Towards an Ethics of Intimacy Tam Sanger and Yvette Taylor (editors) MAPPING INTIMACIES Relations, Exchanges, Affects Lisa Smyth THE DEMANDS OF MOTHERHOOD Agents, Roles and Recognitions Vilna Bashi Treitler (editor) RACE IN TRANSNATIONAL AND TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION Katherine Twamley LOVE, MARRIAGE AND INTIMACY AMONG GUJARATI INDIANS A Suitable Match Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life Series Standing Order ISBN Hardback: 978–0–230–51748–6 Paperback: 978–0–230–24924–0 (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and one of the ISBNs quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England

DOI: 10.1057/9781137434432.0001

Couple Relationships in the 21st Century Jacqui Gabb Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, UK and

Janet Fink Professor of Childhood Studies, University of Huddersfield, UK

DOI: 10.1057/9781137434432.0001

© Jacqui Gabb and Janet Fink 2015

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