marriages die because too many people choose to ignore the inescapable fact that relationships and people change. A wife shared the following about dealing with the risk as well as the potential for growth: Since we have been married fifty years, you can just imagine how much change we have gone through: three wars, eleven presidents, five recessions, going from the Model-A [automobile] to the moon, from country roads to the information superhighway. While these changes around us have been great, the