edict later marital satisfaction. The remainder of this book explains the specific subfactors in each of these more general factors that predict marital satisfaction. It also gives you the opportunity to assess yourself and your relationship on each of these important points, and to set goals for improvement in your individual and couple marriage readiness. At the end of the book (Chapters Six through Eight) I’ll show you how to bring all these factors and your own assessments together to make a better choice of whom to marry and when to marry.Take the ‘Relate’ quiz to see how you score according to the three factors that predict your future marital satisfaction What factors add up to success-or failure-in a relationship? Based on twenty-plus years of research and experience in marriage and family therapy, author Jeffry Larson provides step-by-step advice about what predicts a happy marriage in his book, “Should We Stay Together?” In it, he provides couples with the tools they need to make better decisions and thoroughly explore every aspect of their relationship. Larson finds that the two-dozen or so specific premarital predictors could be logically categorized into a triangular model (“The Marriage Triangle”) of three major factors: *Your individual and relationship contexts *Your individual traits including your personality, attitudes and skills *Your couple traits, including couple communication, couple history, similarities and so on The following quiz introduces these three factors, and is an example of questions from the more comprehensive “Relate” quiz, which is included in Larson’s book. Take the quiz and see how you score in the three areas of “The Marriage Triangle.” Family background 1. My father was happy in his marriage. *Strongly disagree *Disagree *Undecided *Agree *Strongly agree 2. All things considered, my childhood years were happy. *Strong...
