Who knows what it takes to make a successful marriage?  Someone who has spent fifty years living in a happy one!  This is not the story of our marriage, it is the story of the elements that we believe helped to make it work so well.

Based on lifelong learning and experience, each chapter is filled with suggestions that are practical and apparently simple but so important that they can dare to be called Rules.  It would be difficult to imagine a successful marriage that ignores them.

One section deals at length with the avoidance of pitfalls in the choosing of a mate.  Customs may have changed mightily over fifty years but the danger of bad choices has not.

In a time when marriage is far from getting the respect it deserves, the book uses humor and hard-nosed practicality to make a case for the pleasures of living in a good marriage. And then it tells you how to go about it.