This book fills the need for a contemporary analysis of intimate relationships and their implications for people's health, well-being, and quality of life for traditional and non-traditional relationships. It also addresses intervention strategies for relationship problems and offers tools and techniques for assessing intimate relationships. Chapters are organized to present information about the origin, formation, development, enrichment, and maintenance of intimate relationships in a way that allows readers to build upon what they have learned. The text provides integrated and evidence-based information on almost all aspects of intimate relationships and is for undergraduate and graduate students and faculty in family studies, psychology, and other social sciences, and counselors, clinicians, and therapists working on conflict, violence, abuse, maladjustment, depression, deterioration, dissolution, reconstruction, and enrichment of marital and non-marital intimate relationships.