This distinctive volume expands our understanding of couple resilience by identifying and
exploring specific mechanisms unique to intimate relationships that facilitate positive
adaptation to life challenges. Committed partnerships represent a unique form of relational
alliance that offers an opportunity and challenge to go beyond the self - to develop as
individuals and as a relationship. The contributors to this volume represent a range of
perspectives that integrate conventional relationship science and innovative empirical and
theoretical work on the importance of meaning-making narrative construction intersubjectivity
forgiveness and positive emotion in couple life. The volume also offers a unique anchor point
- 'We-ness' as it relates to the intersection between shared personal identity and well-being.
Under-examined relational contexts such as resilience among LGBT partners and sexual resilience
during illness adds further refinement of thought and application.
