Paper presentation, AAG (American Assoc. of Geographers), 26 February 2012

'What's love got to do with it? Negotiating home life, love life and the meanings and uses of household space in adult couple relationships' will examine explore how adult couples ordinarily relate to each other in the domestic space of the home.

This paper draws on fieldwork currently being undertaken and will draw on data generated by respondents, including diaries, emotion maps and interviews. These will be used to analyse the emotional and practical 'work' that couples do to sustain their relationships and the spatial dynamics that shape intimate life. In this paper we will be looking at the home not only as a place where 'relationship work' is performed on a daily basis, but also where couples experience and enact the minutiae of what it means to be 'in love'.