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Close Relationship Loss As a Set of Inkblots

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Close Relationship Loss

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In his book Marital Separation, Robert Weiss (1975) suggested that every person who separates from a long-standing marriage develops an account to explain what went wrong in the relationship, a story about the marital failure that focuses on significant events or themes in the marriage and allocates the blame for the breakup between self and spouse, and perhaps to third parties.

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  1. George Levinger
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  1. Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48103, USA

    Terri L. Orbuch

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Levinger, G. (1992). Close Relationship Loss As a Set of Inkblots. In: Orbuch, T.L. (eds) Close Relationship Loss. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9186-9_13

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