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.

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

I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.

Thus, the critical dimension in understanding whether a marriage will work or not, becomes the extent to which the male can accept the influence of the woman he loves and become socialized in emotional communication.

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

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

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