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PERSPECTIVES ON SPOUSES
Successful couples regard their spouses as friends, the kind of person they would want to have as a friend even if they weren’t married to them,” says Robert Lauer, co-author with his wife, Jeanette, of “Till Death Do Us Part. “There’s a tendency,” he says, “especially when children are young, to focus on children, or, when there are two careers in a marriage, to have people on different schedules, like two ships passing in the night. Long-term successful couples keep coming back to the fact that their main commitment is to being a couple.” From Newsweek, August 24, 1987, “How to Stay Married”