Toward Commitment

Following up the success of her first book, Finding My Voice (Knopf 1999), nationally acclaimed public radio host Diane Rehm teams up with her husband, retired attorney John Rehm, for Toward Commitment (Knopf 2002) a frank series of essays on marriage.

With extraordinary candor and generosity, they open up for the reader their marriage of 42 years, revealing the strong and passionate bond between them as well as the conflicts and turmoils that can overtake a relationship. They grapple with their pronounced differences of background, attitude, and expectation, so that the reader actually watches them working to understand each other and themselves, and to resolve issues that even after their decades together have remained hurtful and destructive.

Washington Post Book World
"A surprising and appealing book."

O, The Oprah Magazine
"A truly engaging book ... [the Rehms] have demystified the labor of love."

Booklist
"Readers interested in long-term relationships, whether they are married or not, will enjoy this honest and insightful book."

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