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a career change. “I think we’d have a
great life if he had a job where he could
sit at the computer all day, but he’s
consistently fund-raising,” she says.
In couples where the man is introverted
and the woman extroverted, as with
Sarah and Bob, we often mistake personality
conflicts for gender difference,
then trot out the conventional wisdom
that “Mars” needs to retreat to his cave
while “Venus” prefers to interact. But
whatever the reason for these differences
in social needs—whether gender
or temperament—what’s important is
that it’s possible to work through them.
In The Audacity of Hope, for example,
President Obama confides that early in
his marriage to Michelle, he was working
on his first book and “would often
spend the evening holed up in my office
in the back of our railroad apartment;
what I considered normal often
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