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

In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem.

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

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

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

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.