If your relationship is not satisfying your needs and you think the problem is that you're with the wrong person - think again. It's not changing a partner that will fulfill your needs, it's changing your mindset about the relationship. Did you know that your relationship itself has needs? Just as your body requires specific types of food to be healthy, The Malnourished Marriage: 5 Essential Emotion Nutrients for A Healthy Relationship uses food as a metaphor to reveal the emotional categories every relationship needs to be healthy. They are: Your body can't survive without water, just as your relationship can't survive without communication.In the body, protein is the building block of cells, just as sex is the building block of your relationship.Your brain requires carbohydrate to function, just as a functional relationship requires laughter and play.Healthy fats protect the organs of your body, just as compromise protects the heart of your relationship.A vitamin supplement is necessary to fill the gap in what's missing from your diet, just as trust fills the gap when there's conflict By using these metaphors, you can leverage your brain's natural ability to make new neural pathways. This book will show you how to replace the old toxic pathways that cause you to believe that by changing partners to get your same needs met is the right answer. It's not. Instead, you will discover that the true solution is to feed your starving relationship with the five essential emotional nutrients to restore it to optimum health. When you nourish your relationship you nourish yourself.