Intimate Strangers

Lillian B. Rubin

• 9780006368403

Samenvatting:

This brilliant and original book explains to every woman and every man who has ever yearned for an intimate relationship, just why it seems so elusive.

Drawing on interviews with over two hundred couples, on research, and on her own experience, Llian Rubin shows that the forces which drive couples apart are powerful and deep-rooted. For the man, intimacy can threaten to be overwhelming, recalling all too strongly his early relationship with his mother from which – because he is male – he has had to separate himself. For the woman, who has not had to suffer this loss of emotional closeness, the man’s fear of intimacy can lead her to feelings of personal rejection and loneliness.

How can we resolve this enormous difference? Intimate Strangers answers this question, and illuminates –as no other book does- the dynamics which underlie the troubled state of men and women’s relationships today.