Table of Contents:
  • Meeting Glenton's families
  • Learning conjugal roles
  • The homemaker and the working wife
  • Sex and marital happiness
  • The marriage dialogue: expectations
  • The marriage dialogue: reality
  • Barriers to marital communication
  • Interpersonal competence
  • "Significant others": confidants outside of marriage
  • Marriage and power
  • Kinship relations
  • A marriage triangle: the husband, the wife, and his mother-in-law
  • The long arm of the job
  • Social life and leisure
  • Theoretical and methological conclusions.