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

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.

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.

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

Bid for connection: Each of our daily interactions with another person.

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

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