The Art of Marriage Maintenance

The Art of Marriage Maintenance is about marital life after the wedding. It is about psychological and biological difficulties between men and women that make marriage so challenging. It is about why passion is in danger of fading within marriage, how hormones exacerbate behavior, and how the brain confounds us. It is about how pregnancy and having young children and adolescents often catapult a marriage to its breaking point and how the stresses of mid-life contribute to marital discord. It is, in effect, how to ensure a happy enduring marriage. It is the art of marriage maintenance.

Sylvia R. Karasu, M.D., is a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and an assistant attending psychiatrist at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital T. Byram Karasu, M.D., is the Silverman Professor and University Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and psychiatrist-in-chief of Montefiore Medical Center