The Heart of the Relationship delineates five essential truths that underlie all couplehood: the inescapable fact of struggling and suffering the fundamental cause of struggle and suffering and the three evolutionary steps out of suffering are: awareness self-care and the twin capacity for both personal power and selflessness. Straight-forward elegant and entertaining The Heart of the Relationship is based on almost twenty years of the author''s work with couples and thirty years of his own marriage.