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Length7h 6m
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Excerpt: "As far as we know this is the first time anyone has written a book attempting to put mate selection on a sensible basis, despite the fact that sooner or later almost everybody selects one. A good many people resent the idea of an outsider telling them how they should pick a mate. They think it smacks of meddling. Marriage is something sacred and personal. It should not be done according to rules. We heartily sympathize. Unfortunately, however, marriages are not made in Heaven. Usually people marry by hunch or impulse ... or because their parents think it is a good match ... or because they get themselves so deeply involved romantically that marrying seems the only proper thing to do. Too frequently such methods merely mess up a couple of people's lives. More than a third of all the millions of marriages undertaken in the last ten years are in trouble. Many are already dissolved. Many more soon will be. A great deal of research and counseling has now been done in the field of marriage, and the findings validated. At Penn State, for example, hundreds of couples who were tested before marriage at the Marriage Counseling Service are checked periodically after marriage to find how they are making out. Of all the marriages which the service predicted would be successful, not one has yet ended in divorce or separation. Most of the people who went ahead despite the clinic's cautions are already in serious trouble or have been divorced. As a result of many such investigations, reliable information is available on the kinds of people who make the best mates, and on the causes of marriage success and failure. In this book we have tried to include those findings which should be most helpful and interesting to all people involved in love or marriage—but particularly to people who sooner or later will be taking unto themselves a mate. It is not our intention to lay down a set of rules for people to follow. But we hope that after reading this book you will be more enlightened in your hunches than you might be otherwise, and be a much happier and more desirable mate yourself!"
Audiobook details
GenrePhilosophy, Self-Help
Length7 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 6, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter I Why Marry, Anyhow?
11Chapter XI Test Your Mate and Yourself
2Chapter II Your Chances of Getting a Mate You’ll Like
12Chapter XII Now, See How You Match as a Couple!
3Chapter III Are You Ready for Married Love?
13Chapter XIII Beware of Mixed Marriages
4Chapter IV Is It Love—or Infatuation?
14Chapter XIV Nine Dangerous Characters
5Chapter V Growing Up Sexually
15Chapter XV People Who Should Not Marry at All
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6Chapter VI Sex Adventuring
16Chapter XVI Will a Job Undermine the Marriage?
7Chapter VII Do You Frighten Possible Mates Away?
17Chapter XVII The Veteran as a Mate
8Chapter VIII Attracting the One You Want
18Chapter XVIII So You Agree to Marry: What Next?
9Chapter IX Is the One You Want the One You Need?
19Chapter XIX Getting Ready for Married Intimacy
10Chapter X Crucial Traits for a Happy Marriage
20Chapter XX Getting Off to a Good Start
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