This is a guide to marriage, written by a trained marriage counsellor and drawing on the experiences of "Marriage Care," a national church-based marriage counselling service. It places emphasis on helping individuals to understand the natural stages a marriage relationship goes through. It discusses the reality of marriage in comparison to the dream, and the stages of moral and emotional development and their characteristics in both childhood and adulthood. Case studies are provided, and the final section is on dealing with problems and learning to perceive a crisis in a relationship as an opportunity for growth into maturity.
