How does a Hollywood marriage survive for forty years? How does any marriage? Dick York, the original Darrin of Bewitched, stayed happily wed to his childhood sweetheart through four decades of struggles, triumphs and sorrows. In his candid memoir, The Seesaw Girl and Me, York illustrates six ways to keep a union joyful and strong, whatever the circumstances.

(PRWEB) -- We know him best as the original Darrin, the frazzled yet loving mortal husband of witchy Samantha Stephens on Bewitched. But Dick York was also a real-life loving husband whose marriage to his childhood sweetheart, Joan, lasted forty years.

Together they struggled to build York's career while raising five children. Together they enjoyed the perks of York's film and television stardom. And together they endured York's abrupt and public fall: physical collapse, addiction to prescription pain-killers, unemployment and financial ruin.

Through it all they remained true to their marriage vows. For richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, only death could part them.

Sadly, Dick York died in 1992. His memoir, The Seesaw Girl and Me, is now in print for the first time. A candid account of the actor's bittersweet life, The Seesaw Girl and Me at heart is a love letter from Dick to Joan (the seesaw girl) and an anecdotal roadmap to lasting love.

By example rather than by preaching, York demonstrates six ways to keep a union joyful and strong, whatever the circumstances:

1. Express your love often in words.
2. Demonstrate your love often in actions.
3. Accept each other's flaws; value each other's strengths.
4. Play together.
5. Work together.
6. Create together.

“Dick was true, and he was real," says Joan York. "I think the love story between Darrin and Samantha comes across so well because that was an experience that Dick was well versed at: love.”

Reviewers have called York's book “funny and lyrical” and “unusual and inspiring.”

“The true gift in this book is the message of loving the people in one's life,” writes Elizabeth Upham in ForeWord Magazine. “This book will stay with readers and may enhance perceptions of life and relationships, and that's much more magic than Darrin ever witnessed on Bewitched!”

The Seesaw Girl and Me: A Memoir is available from the publisher, New Path Press, at http://www.newpathpress.com , and from the online booksellers Alibris and Amazon.

Book excerpts and an audio clip of Dick York are available at http://www.newpathpress.com

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