Intimate Relationships Across the Lifespan : Formation, Development, Enrichment, and Maintenance

This comprehensive research-based book is a next-generation study of intimate relationships that explores implications for health and well-being across cultures, genders, and traditional as well as non-traditional relationships.

• Explores intimate relationships across ages, cultures, traditional and non-traditional relationships

• Details the effects of intimate relationships on health, well-being, and quality of life

• Describes research tools and methods for assessing relationships

• Explains intervention strategies for relationship problems