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Published USA, 2009
David Whyte asks us to think about our three marriages - work, relationships and our inner selves - as a mutually supportive conversation. To separate these marriages in order to balance them, he argues, is to destroy the fabric of happiness itself. Happiness, he argues, is possible but only if we reimagine how we inhabit the words of love, work and self-understanding. Drawing from his own struggles and exploring the lives of some of the world's great writers and artists - from Dante to Jane Austen to Robert Louis Stevenson - David Whyte shows the ways these core commitments are connected. Only by understanding the journey involved in each of the Three Marriages and the stages of their maturation, he says, can we understand how to bring them together in one fulfilled life.

CONTENTS
The Three Marriages: Work, Self and Other
Love's First Glimpse: Looking for a Mate, a Job, a Life
The Joy of Pursuit: What We Think We Are Worthy of in This World
Engagement: The Dramas and Disappointments Immediately Prior to Marriage
Living Together: The Art of Marriage

David Whyte is a writer and poet who lives on an island near Seattle, USA.
Paperback. 368 pages