After a first chapter that
introduces key influences on relationships — culture, experience, individual differences, and evolution — and a chapter on methods, the book devotes chapters to attraction, perceptions of partners, communication, interdependency, friendship, love, and sex.
He also cited the coalition's plans to
introduce a marriage allowance — a
key Tory commitment which Clegg had dismissed as «patronising» prior to the general election — suggesting voters now saw the Lib Dems as «people who are giving power to the Conservatives without any
influence over policies they used to oppose».