ABSTRACT
What then is the glue which holds marriages together for maybe forty or fifty years or longer? As I have been arguing all the way through this book there are two main sets of factors. Firstly there are the constructs about the environment, irrespective of whether that environment is natural or social or both, in which we live; and secondly there are the pragmatic factors, the ways in which we react to that environment which are necessary for survival in this (or any other) society. These factors I call the economic, the emotional, the intellectual, the physical, and the social. We act to maintain or improve upon the status quo in any combination or permutation of the perceived relative importance at the time of those five factors. I now wish to look at these constructs and factors in more detail.
