A Marital Puzzle

"Our thesis is that the quality of one's relationship to members of one's original family forms the unrecognized backdrop for the success or failure of one's marriage, which includes the functioning of one's children. ... We have attempted to illustrate that there are many sides to a marriage and that sex and love can't be isolated from the relationship of the partners, nor can a child's existence be regarded as an entity independent from the marital relationship."--Page 9.