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a career change. “I think we’d have agreat life if he had a job where he couldsit at the computer all day, but he’sconsistently fund-raising,” she says.In couples where the man is introvertedand the woman extroverted, as withSarah and Bob, we often mistake personalityconflicts for gender difference,then trot out the conventional wisdomthat “Mars” needs to retreat to his cavewhile “Venus” prefers to interact. Butwhatever the reason for these differencesin social needs—whether genderor temperament—what’s important isthat it’s possible to work through them.In The Audacity of Hope, for example,President Obama confides that early inhis marriage to Michelle, he was workingon his first book and “would oftenspend the evening holed up in my officein the back of our railroad apartment;what I considered normal often647/929