"In Love, Honor and Negotiate: Making your Marriage Work, family therapist Betty Carter offers a cutting-edge, common-sense approach to helping marriages survive, grow, and flourish: renegotiating the marriage contract." "A wife and mother herself - and the first woman to direct a major family therapy training institute - Carter has discovered during her twenty-five years in practice that even the most loving relationships still tend to be governed by the Golden Rule: whoever has the gold makes the rules. Couples today want to be equals, but workplace penalties for taking too much family time force us into traditional roles, especially once we have children. Many women who try to do it all end up exhausted and resentful; women who cut back at work, or stop working, sacrifice financial strength and autonomy. But couples can redefine power to create relationships that value nurturing as much as money. Betty Carter herself and her husband, Sam, have renegotiated their marriage contract three times: when Betty decided to join the workforce again after two years at home with their first son; when her career took off and they both had to learn that less togetherness didn't mean less intimacy; and most recently when their boys left home."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved