Deep intimate connection: Self and intimacy in couple relationships

Handbook of Closeness and Intimacy

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 43-60

  Prager, Karen J ^a   Roberts, Linda J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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