Daniel Perlman is a Professor of Family Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Having trained as a social psychologist, he has taught at the Universities of Manitoba and British Columbia, been president of four academic associations including the International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships and the International Association for Relationship Research, and been editor or co-editor of four journals including Personal Relationships and the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. For over fifty years he has found daily joy in being a close relationships researcher and academic.