Firmly based on psychological and sociological reality, this book presents marriage as a developing relationship with recognizable cycles. The penultimate section deals with breakdown, which is the end point of between a third and a quarter of all marriages. The final section gives the Christian dimension of hope.

Dr Jack Dominian was Senior Consultant Psychiatrist at the Central Middlesex Hospital, United Kingdom. In 1971 he established the Marriage Research Centre, of which he was director.