Summary: Part A: AARP’s Love and Relationships expert, Pepper Schwartz, gives the details of a survey that studied many couple’s communication styles, which give insight into many aspects of the relationship. The study, titled “The Normal Bar,” reveals much more than what happens to passion, as we grow older and our relationships change. Schwartz also discusses what each gender wants when it comes to sex, the factors that can ignite relational conflict, and what people really admire in their partner. Part B: In “The Happiness Choice,” Marilyn Tam teaches the five basic principles and values that can lead to a happier, healthier, and more fulfilled life. Tam takes many of the lessons she learned while growing up a poor, neglected, and unloved child in Hong Kong and uses them to illustrate how anyone can achieve success and the life they have always dreamed of living
