Word: laura
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Patti urges Laura and Mark to continue discussing Laura's jealousy when they are alone together. Soon the Thompsons hit upon other prickly topics: Mark's compulsive neatness and Laura's worry that her future mother-in-law has reservations about the pending nuptials...
After Mark and Laura leave, the first of four 90-minute sessions completed, the Thompsons-who have been married 31 years and have raised four children-offer an assessment of this couple's chances at marital harmony. It is based not just on gut impressions but also on a computer printout of the pair's "premarital inventory"-more than 100 questions about everything from the number of children they want to whether they are comfortable being naked in front of each other. Mark and Laura, who scored 72 out of 100 on this compatibility test, should do just fine, says...
Working on a relationship, of course, is an activity that everyone-save for perhaps the most wildly romantic and misguided among us-has come to regard as a sometimes thrilling, sometimes infuriating, but always necessary exercise. But Mark and Laura, well meaning, full of love and hope, with their lives ahead of them and their family values just taking shape, are actually on the cutting edge-even if it is an old blade. Although the Catholic Church has always required engaged couples to undergo pre-Cana counseling-usually just one day of talks from a priest and a married couple...
Mark Geyman and Laura Richards are convinced that they are increasingly prepared to handle those strains. Since they began meeting with Patti and John Thompson, says Mark, "we have done a lot of talking, more than we were." They have had conversations about whose family they will see during holidays and how they will handle their finances. And they have tried to grapple with the problem of Laura's jealousy. "It's been helpful," says Mark. "I think she's beginning to open up a little more. She's being more trusting." The fact that one of Laura's sisters...
...Reported by Laura Lopez/Oventik, Marguerite Michaels/New York and Adam Zagorin/Washington