12/5/09. In the NYT, writer Elizabeth Weil muses about the complexity of marriage.
Couple therapy is the toughest kind of therapy ---- psychologist and couple are in a room with the strong winds of unconscious forces, blame, regrets, jealousies, projections, voices from the past, and much more ---- yet when it works, couple therapy is often the most gratifying.
"By all means marry. If you have a good wife, you'll be happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
--- Socrates (469 B.C. - 399 B.C.)
"Love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame."
Song of Songs (8:6)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/magazine/06marriage-t.html?_r=1&em=&pagewanted=all
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