In this book, Anne Power interviews eighteen contented couples in the USA and the UKto discuss how they found each other and what made it work. As well as couplesbrought together by family arrangement or random romance, we meet those introduceddeliberately by friends, or through agencies and the internet.

Almost all the couplesinterviewed had faced major challenges along the way – but their attachment grewand relationships survived. In this book they tell us why.The author uses some of the questions she puts to new couples in therapy: What doesan argument look like? How has sex been across the years? Who has grown up themost over their time together? What stopped them from becoming a divorce statistic?

Woven through the book are expert, jargon-free explanations of how couples attach,how they fight and how they repair. Each chapter ends with questions which invite usto reflect on our own relationships and to benefit personally from this chance toeavesdrop on contented couples