Author of The Art of Intimacy – The Pleasure of Passion, Mel Schwartz, shares his insights on why half of all marriages fail. He says that we are illiterate in the field of relationships and gives us advice on how we can make selections of partners by finding someone who enhances our lives, not on a relationship based upon neediness.To do this, we must examine our own life and grow to be comfortable with who we are. In relationships we then must exhibit what we want from the other person by picking appropriate times to communicate.