A marriage without communication is a marriage without music.

Marriage counselors estimate that the vast majority of marital problems trace back to poor communication, and the evidence in broken homes across the country bears that out. When two people stop truly talking to one another, the harmony disappears and the relationship slowly goes silent. This booklet uses the Song of Solomon—the greatest love poem ever written—as a model for the kind of intimate, life-giving communication that sustains a marriage across decades.

Adrian Rogers identifies five levels of communication, from the frivolous to the freedom level, and examines four qualities of the intimate speech between Solomon and his Shulamite bride: plentiful words, personal words, positive words, and passionate words. He addresses the real differences between men and women—the goal-oriented husband who runs out of words at the end of the day and the security-oriented wife who craves deep connection—and calls both partners to choose communication over silence, affirmation over criticism, and intimacy over self-protection. The commitment to positive, loving marital communication is not the arrival point; it is the daily decision.