Diane and John Rehm
Forty years of passion and friendship, frustration and conflict highlight this candid look at the bond of marriage. Nationally know public radio broadcaster Diane Rehm and her husband John openly discuss the highs and lows of their marriage in TOWARD COMMITMENT: A Dialogue About Marriage, now available in paperback from Da Capo Press. (February 2004).
The Rehms take readers from expectations to reality. They talk lovingly about their initial attraction and ultimate appreciation for one another, and truthfully about more serious issues married people confront-overcoming differing backgrounds, finding the balance between dependence and independence, and making joint financial decisions. Intimate details like their decision to sleep in separate beds, only to sleep better, and Diane's resentment toward John for the treatment she consistently received from his parents are so poignant and raw, you can tell that they talked about these issues more profoundly in the writing of this book than ever before. In a conversational tone, John and Diane talk about matters of commitment so universal that every reader will think the book was written with them in mind.
The title TOWARD COMMITMENT articulates their understanding that you never truly get there, but you are always working toward it. The book offers couples, new and established, the benefit of forty-four years of marriage experience-which just might help in their own journey toward commitment.
Diane Rehm hosts The Diane Rehm Show on WAMU/NPR from Washington, D.C. Currently it is distributed to approximately ninety NPR affiliates across the country, as well as internationally, by Armed Forces Radio Network. John B. Rehm, a highly successful Washington lawyer, both for the government and in private practice, has recently retired. Married over forty years, the Rehms live in Bethesda, Maryland.
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