Even though many couples are choosing to MARRY later in life, our LAWS haven't been updated to ADDRESS DATING partner ABUSE.

For a long time, I have been wanting to WRITE a book for singles that would HELP them in the DATING process and in getting READY for marriage. Most of my writing, I've WRITTEN to couples who are already married, because I've been doing marriage counseling for 35 years.

I SUPPORT gay unions. I think the GOVERNMENT should get out of the marriage business completely - LEAVE marriages to the CHURCHES. And GRANT civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.

I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media PEOPLE there, so it's a very, very BUSY WEEK. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one SHOW, about 25 COUPLES in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.

It's ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL that we have the same safeguards that STRAIGHT couples do. But I WANT more than a 50 percent chance of SUCCESS. I don't want to emulate that.

A lot of SHOWS have COUPLES with issues INSIDE the relationship.

People with fertility PROBLEMS are not ALONE. It is a very very common problem for COUPLES today. I've seen STATISTICS that are just staggering.

Couples COUNSELING gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake and that of your CHILDREN, however, I RECOMMEND it - I almost insist on it - as the FIRST step for anyone unhappy in a relationship.

For TWO people to satisfy everything each needs for their entire lives is a TALL order. Some COUPLES may be equipped to do this. Some are not.

There was a LOT of GREAT writing COUPLES, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but I still managed to be AHEAD of my TIME.

If we could honestly promise young COUPLES that we KNEW how to GIVE them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly IMPROVE human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.

I write about MESSY relationships - between FRIENDS, rivals, MARRIED COUPLES, siblings. I'm not really interested in boy/girl romances.

I SEE interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a JEW in Nashville. I'm a GAY PERSON in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge LEAP forward.

Joining finances can be tricky. Money has long topped the LIST of TOPICS couples FIGHT about.