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Correlates of gay and lesbian couples' relationship satisfaction and relationship dissolution

John Mordechai Gottman1, Robert W Levenson, James Gross

  • 1Psychology Department, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA.

Journal of Homosexuality
|October 22, 2003
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