From This Day Forward

By: Cokie Roberts, Steven Roberts

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Paperback | 23 January 2001

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After thirty years together, Cokie and Steve Roberts know something about marriage and after thirty distinguished years in journalism, they know how to write about it. In From This Day Forward, Cokie and Steve weave their personal stories of matrimony into a wider reflection on the state of marriage in America today.

Here they write with the same conversational style that catapulted Cokie's We Are Our Mother's Daughters to the top of the New York Times bestseller list. They ruminate on their early worries about their different faiths -- she's Catholic, he's Jewish -- and describe their wedding day at Cokie's childhood home. They discuss the struggle to balance careers and parenthood, and how they compromise when they disagree. They also tell the stories of other American marriages: that of John and Abigail Adams, and those pioneers, slaves and immigrants. They offer stories of broken marriages as well, of contemporary families living through the "divorce revolution". Taken together, these tales reveal the special nature of the wedding bond in America. Wise and funny, this book is more than an endearing chronicle of a loving marriage -- it is a story of all husbands and wives, and how they support and strengthen each other.

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Non-Fiction Biographies & True Stories Biographies Arts & Entertainment Biographies Family & Health Relationships & Families: Advice & Issues Dating, Relationships, Living Together & Marriage Parenting: Advice & Issues Industry & Industrial Studies Media, Entertainment, Information & Communication Industries Arts & Entertainment Film, TV & Radio

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Introduction	p. xi
Our Lives Early Days	p. 1
Courtship	p. 1
Wedding	p. 20
Other Lives Early America	p. 37
Companionate Marriage	p. 37
Slave Marriages	p. 63
Our Lives Leaving Home	p. 86
Newlyweds in New York	p. 86
New Parents in California	p. 107
Growing Up in Greece	p. 135
Other Lives New Places, New Roles	p. 172
Pioneer Marriages	p. 172
Immigrant Marriages	p. 196
Our Lives Coming Home	p. 218
Family House	p. 218
Equal Work	p. 232
Empty Nest	p. 252
Other Lives Broken Marriages	p. 285
Getting Divorced	p. 285
Blended Families	p. 314
Our Lives From This Day Forward	p. 337
Afterword	p. 349
Suggested Reading	p. 357
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