Toward Commitment

Diane and John Rehm's overheard-conversation format is genuinely unusual — two perspectives on the same marriage, same arguments, same silences — and their willingness to go to uncomfortable places (sexual estrangement, infidelity, religious difference) gives this memoir real weight. The Washington D.C. professional context keeps it from being universally relatable, but for readers interested in the long arc of a committed marriage this is an honest, useful book.