Crossing the Tracks for Love: What to Do When You and Your Partner Grew Up in Different Worlds
by Ruby K. Payne
Category: Family & Relationships

"Crossing the Tracks for Love is a guide for successfully negotiating the barriers that divide economic classes. It explores the ways that people from poverty, middle class, and wealth view the world and operate within it in terms of intimacy, gender roles, employment, entertainment, decision-making, raising children, dealing with in-laws, food and dining, and free time. This powerful book exposes the mindsets and attitudes that trigger conflict between people of different economic classes, and provides solutions you can use immediately to improve your relationships, smooth your own transition between classes, increase opportunities for someone you care about, and move confidently in any social setting.