Becoming Partners: Marriage and Its Alternatives

Becoming Partners: Marriage and Its Alternatives by Rogers, Carl R.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780385280709.

Psychology/sociology"Becoming Partners is a popularly written book about marriage and its alternatives. Using interviews in the partners own words, the author gives the reader a series of slices, pictures, perceptions – of relationships, breakdowns, restructurings – in a wide variety of partnerships. These are followed by his own incisive commentary and summation. The interviews span a variety of relationships, among others the authors own marriage, convention, long-lived and successful; commune group marriags; a triangle; a quartet; a racially mixed marriage. And at no time does Dr. Rogers attempt to pass judgment on whether the unions are good or they simply exist, and that is enough." (back cover text)