Filling the book with examples from his counseling practice and his own life, Weiss offers sound suggestions including worksheets for planning date nights, outlining ten-minute arguments, and structuring the "government" of your marriage. Especially helpful are chapters devoted to the externally motivated mate and the internally motivated mate, opposite personality types which usually manage to find each other and marry. The final two chapters discuss the most heated subjects of marital debate: money and sex.

Easy-to-read and simple to implement (if both parties want to improve the marriage and commit to daily practice), the sound psychological ideas in this book could help refresh most marital relationships. It’s the religious ideas, however, which might lose some readers. He writes in the first chapter: "God answered my prayer and gave me the great tool of the Ten-Minute Marriage Principle." Although the book jacket gives no indication of so much content revolving around Christianity, the church, God, and prayer, readers should be forewarned that religious beliefs inspire all of Weiss’s ideas about marriage and are woven throughout each chapter.