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Jacques Salomé and Sylvie Galland look at love and desire. They also study the bonds that help couples stay close. They stress that each partner must feel desire for the other. They contrast what they call the feminine and the masculine. In their view, the feminine seeks esteem and feels a need to be unique. These needs can matter more than pleasure from the body. The masculine responds to beauty and needs words less. It also stays aware of doubt, loss, and the risk of betrayal.

This nonfiction book is for those who seek to understand life as a couple. It weighs ideals of lasting love against the limits of desire for the body.

Salomé is a psychosociologist, trainer, writer, and poet. His work draws on humanistic psychology and psychoanalysis. He also uses methods that work with the body. He developed ESPERE as a way to work on human relations. He taught at Lille III for fifteen years. Galland is a psychotherapist. She led a centre for children's psychotherapy in Lausanne. This is the book's second edition.