Twenty are sticking and two came unglued. Every time I speak on the subject of successful marriages I can't help but think of the pain many of you have experienced in the failure of a relationship. I love you and accept each of you as you are today in the relationship that your exist in. I don't want anything that I say to be taken as a judgment or criticism of the way you handled your previous relationships. I am not here to judge or condemn what happened in your previous relationships.
Yesterday is past, gone forever.
Today is now and what we do now determines what happens tomorrow. The following poem by Ruth Harmes Catkins portrays the pain a troubled marriage can cause. He said it was the breakdown of communication and the subtle infiltration of boredom. She said it was an accumulation of things. He said she was unnecessarily preoccupied with home, children and activities.