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  • Chapter 4 - The Foundations for Strong and Healthy Relationships between Black Men and Women: Purposes, Practices, and Processes

  • from Part II - Foundations for Healthy Coupling
  • Edited by Yamonte Cooper, El Camino College, Torrance, California, Erica Holmes, Antioch University, Los Angeles
  • Book:
    Black Couples Therapy
    Published online:
    27 July 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023, pp 85-101

  • Summary

    This chapter provides an overview of some of the unique characteristics, strengths, and challenges for creating and sustaining healthy marital relationships between heterosexual men and women of African ancestry. The approach to this work is grounded within the emerging field of African-centered psychology that privileges the lived experiences of African Americans and summarizes a marriage empowerment program, Conversations in Marriage© (CIM), which uses African proverbs to promote situational learning. A definition of culture is developed to conceptualize healthy marriages, and challenges affecting Black marriage are discussed. Key foundations, practices, and processes of a cycle of healthy marriages are presented and implications for building stronger marriages are discussed. Each of these elements are discussed from a perspective that centers sustainable marriage within a framework of community growth, empowerment, and sustainability.