Equal Couples

The “Implications for Practice” sections in each of the chapters of Carmen’s and my book Couples, Gender and Power suggest ways clinicians can teach clients how to do equality. The Vachon’s book Equally Shared Parenting shows by example, page after page, how couples can develop equal patterns of parenting. We can learn how to create equal relationships. Equality is a set of skills we acquire to improve our relationships and give us more balanced lives.   Since equality, as we define it, is a process, we don’t have to rail at ourselves and our partners because we haven’t yet achieved Equality, with a capital E.  We’re working on it, we’re changing our behaviors and attitudes day by day. As long as we are both committed to the process and act in good faith, we can learn equality.

Posted by Anne