The Rough Patch by Daphne de Marneffe - ISBN: 9781784702632
Paperback
Marriage stresses in midlife? Learn to love through the rough patch.

The Rough Patch

The Art of Living Together

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  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    15 January 2019

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Summary

A wise, radical, and optimistic approach to the stresses of marriage and midlife from a leading clinical psychologist.

Lockdown has been hard on relationships. Put your relationship first in 2021 with this powerful and nuanced guide to new ways of learning to live—and love—together.

Living together can be a struggle. Children grow up, jobs change, and the things that used to make us happy don’t necessarily work anymore. Relationships can lose their shine.

In The Ro…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781784702632
ISBN-10:1784702633
Author:Daphne de Marneffe
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:15 January 2019
Weight:293g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 22mm
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Critics Review

In this beautifully reasoned, highly personal, and very generous book of advice and analysis, Daphne de Marneffe proposes that the rough patch that occurs in most midlife relationships should be cherished. For those who can endure it, it can generate a new reciprocity, deepening the very intimacies it threatened to break. De Marneffe writes with poetry, wit, and compassion about the necessity of struggle in the quest for true love. Anyone in any relationship at any stage of life could stand to learn from the wisdom in these pages. – Andrew Solomon
Bravo for this personable, wise, radical and optimistic approach to the often seismic stresses of marriage and midlife, by a leading clinical psychologist who uses fascinating case studies to illuminate her advice about how to deal with the significant challenges which often arise in relationships once we’re in our forties and fifties. * Bookseller *

About The Author

Daphne de Marneffe

Daphne de Marneffe is a psychologist and the author of Maternal Desire- On Children, Love, and the Inner Life. In her clinical practice, she offers psychotherapy to couples and individuals. She teaches and lectures widely on marriage, couple therapy, adult development and parenthood. She and her husband have three children and live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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