Based on data obtained from nearly 100,000 respondents,
here is the ultimate resource for anyone who wants to learn
the relationship-tested ways couples can achieve
satisfaction and contentment in areas such as communication,
sex, affection, and financial cooperation.
What
constitutes “normal” behavior among happy couples?
What steps you should take if that “normal” is one you want
to strive for? To help answer those questions,
wellness entrepreneur Chrisanna Northrup teamed with two of
America’s top sociologists, Yale Ph.D. Pepper Schwartz
and Harvard Ph.D. James Witte, to design a unique
interactive survey that would draw feedback from around the
world.
What has resulted is the clearest
picture yet of how well couples are communicating, romancing
each other, satisfying each other in the bedroom, sharing
financial responsibilities, and staying faithful – or
not. Since the Normal Bar survey methodology
sorts for age and gender, racial and geographic differences
and sexual preferences, the authors are able to reveal , for
example, what happens to passion as we grow older, which
gender wants what when it comes to sex, the factors that
spur marital combat, how kids figure in, how being gay or
bisexual turns out to be both different and the same, and
–regardless of background -- the tiny habits that drive
partners absolutely batty.
The book is dense with
revelations, from the unexpected popularity of certain
sexual positions, to the average number of times happy – and
unhappy -- couples kiss, to the prevalence of lying, to the
surprising loyalty most men and women feel for their partner
(even when in a deteriorating relationship), to the vivid
and idiosyncratic ways individuals of different ages,
genders and nationalities describe their “ideal romantic
evening.”
Much more than a peek behind the
relationship curtain, The Normal Bar offers readers
an array of prescriptive tools that will help them establish
a “new normal.” Mindful of what keeps couples stuck in ruts,
the book’s authors suggest practical and life-changing ways
to break cycles of disappointment and frustration.
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