Lesson 18: New Friends And Relapse Prevention - Slide 20





Focusing On What’s Most Important
- Nearly half of all marriages end in divorce
- According to research, friendship is the determining factor in couples’ decisions to divorce or stay together
- A couple’s friendship quality accounts for 70% of overall marital satisfaction
- The quality of a couple’s friendship is 5 times as important as physical intimacy
- The best gauge of a friendship’s health is each person’s happiness during everyday interactions