This is a huge question in our culture. Almost every popular magazine has at least one article each issue on keeping love alive in a marriage.
Books abound on the subject.
Television and radio talk shows deal with it. Presently 40 percent of first marriages in this country end in divorce. Sixty percent of second marriages and 75 percent of third marriages end the same way. The need to feel loved by one s spouse is at the heart of martial desires. More than anything, I want to be loved by my wife.