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his wife was not a devoted mother hovering over his crib. She was an equal, with—much to his surprise—needs and expectations of her own. And although she wanted very much to make him happy, she didn’t know what to do. Lacking this information, she was forced to play a grown-up version of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey: “Is this what you want? Is this?”

Hendrix, why do couples have such a hard time staying together?” I thought for a m

primary reason couples fail at creating an I-Thou relationship is that they did not experience it in childhood