2. Unrealistic expectations of easy and sustained happiness Dominian, in an appendix to the Church of England Report Marriage, Divorce and the Church, says that nowadays life is less of a struggle. In the past, most couples were concerned with such basic questions as food, poverty and lack of adequate shelter [cf Matt. 6:25–34], but now that these have receded in significance, people are ‘freer to concentrate on the next layer of their beings: the psychological, emotional and sexual, opening new