Although the ideal of companionate marriage has gradually been established in Hong Kong, demographic trends from the 1980s reflect greater marital and family instability. In the years to come, adult fulfilment is likely to be found in various ways: through marriage, divorce, remarriage, or the single state.;Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1 Rethinking Marriage; 2 Discovering the Spouse's Other-ness Through Family-of-origin Explorations and Re-inventing Partnerships in Marriage; 3 Long-term After-effects of ChildhoodSexual Abuse on Married Life:Implications for Practice; 4 Tackling the Intrinsic Dilemma in Marital Infidelity; 5 Forgiveness in Marriage; 6 Reaching the ""Point of No Return"":Tracking the Pathway to Making the Decision to Divorce; 7 Rediscovery of the ""Self: Culturally Sensitive Intervention for Chinese Divorced Women.