Finding Love, Keeping Love

In providing a guide to making successful loving relationships, Dr Sills demonstrates that the process of becoming a couple, like so many other psychological developments, is a series of gradual, predictable stages which can be learned. Love doesn't work because someone has finally found "the right person", but because they can develop a successful relationship. Dr Sills's explanations include the need for "readiness" before a relationship can progress and she suggests that although the road between meeting and marriage may be bumpy, it is navigable.