Dispersed throughout "The Five Environments for Marital Success" are important strategies to enlighten and empower your deliberate amicable efforts for building a solid romantic foundation upon which you will formulate a life-style that will position you for growth and the fulfillment of your destinies together. Your adopted life-style does not have to be tied to your social-orientation, or the limitations of your predecessors. You can protect your marriage with these principles and insulate it from the curses of the previous generations, and set a new paradigm that will become a legacy for the generations that will immediately follow you. So get ready for seriously working your marriage. Here's how: - Develop the art of initiating romance in your relationship with your spouse. Discover your capacity for flexibility, and your ability to adjust to who your spouse is, though different from whom you are. Decide to go beyond your limitations and abandon yourself to the excitement of ecstatic intimacy. Dedicate your life to the progressive strengthening and expanding of the horizon of your marriage. Drench yourself with bliss of knowing that you are dearly loved and appreciated, and with comfort derived from accepting the one whom you truly love. Any marriage that does not cost you something or places a demand on your time, energy, effort, and commitment, will soon disintegrate from overwhelming boredom and romantic expiration. Every issue to be mapped out in your marriage possesses the potential to cause your relationship to get stronger and your intimacy to expand. Problem in marriage are not your worst nightmare, but are allowed in your relationship to give you an opportunity to grow in love together. Seize these moments and view them as a part of your stockpile of blessings.