"The Top 10 Marriage Essentials" is a reflection of the couple's work that Paul has done over his long career as a professional counselor. Moving past his two prior books on couple's conflict resolution, "Marriage Essentials" addresses the top 10 recurring relationship issues he has encountered over the course of his work, discussing both the problem and the solutions. Each chapter in the book is committed to one of the ten "essentials": flexible relationship roles & realistic expectations, discovering true intimacy, keeping the marriage as a priority, creating healthy boundaries, respectful communication as the key to successful conflict resolution, practicing validation, exercising loving accountability, embracing forgiveness, dealing with differing perceptions of reality, and working towards a healthy, balanced you.