SHADOW MARRIAGE—A DESCENT INTO INTIMACY is a provocative and innovative book about marriage that introduces a paradigm shift away from the pursuit of nuptial happiness to an invitation to marital creativity. An ancient meaning of creativity is “to generate new life”. However, a requirement of all new life is a willingness for the old life to die.
Marriage is defined as a series of “Initiations” where each individual as well as their relationship is challenged to drop to new depths, leaving behind what may have obstructed both individual and collective deepening.
The book examines the nature of “shadow” especially as it is expressed through “shame”, “power”, “regression”, and “diversity”. Couples are encouraged to see marriage as a place where “Irreconcilable differences” are inevitable and, rather than terminate a relationship because of these differences, learn to go deeper within themselves and with one another.
