With This Ring

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With This Ring: A Portrait of Marriage - Revised and Updated Second Edition</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>By Mary Motley Kalergis</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Marriage is where many family stories begin-not with children but with a choice. A moment sometimes impulsive or sometimes hard-won when two people decide to build a life together.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With This Ring: A Portrait of Marriage</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> award-winning documentary photographer Mary Motley Kalergis travels into the heart of that choice and beyond pairing striking black-and-white portraits with unflinching often tender interviews. Couples from across America share what brought them together what sustains them and what nearly broke them-speaking with candor about love change resilience and the daily work of building a shared life.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Originally published by the Chrysler Museum of Art and now reimagined as the first volume in Kalergis' five-part </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Building a Family</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> series this edition preserves the honesty and intimacy of the original while framing it as the opening chapter in a larger story about birth motherhood adoption and parenting.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In these pages you will meet newlyweds long-married partners blended families and couples who have endured illness tragic loss and incredible joy. Some stories are raw others luminous-but all are real. Together they form a testament to what it means to commit and to remain committed over time.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is not a book about weddings. It's a book about what happens after the vows-when love must grow up bend endure and sometimes reinvent itself. For anyone interested in the human truths behind marriage these images and voices offer something rare: a clear-eyed compassionate portrait of the everyday courage it takes to build a life together.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Perfect for</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>:</span></p><ul><li><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Anyone curious about the human realities behind the idea of happily ever after</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Couples at any stage of their journey</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Readers drawn to oral history and documentary photography</span></li></ul></li></ul><p></p>