"'The more you invest in fun and friendship and being there for your partner, the happier the relationship will get over time,' says Howard Markman, a psychologist who co-directs the university's Center for Marital and Family Studies."
- USA Today, 7-2008. "Married couples who play together, stay together."

"'Rather than visiting the same familiar haunts and dining with the same old friends, couples need to tailor their date nights around new and different activities that they both enjoy,' says Arthur Aron, a professor of social psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook."
- New York Times, 2-2008. "Reinventing Date Night for Long-Married Couples"