I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them.

In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and resistance.

When a couple gets to the last stage, one or both partners may have an affair. But an affair is usually a symptom of a dying marriage, not the cause. The end of that marriage could have been predicted long before either spouse strayed.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.

You don't have to be interesting. You have to be interested.

Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right.

Gay and lesbian relationships operate on essentially the same principles as heterosexual relationships