The goal of marriage, according to the author, is the creation of the 'Us'. Wartime separation threatens to disrupt this unity. The husband's dilemma, the wife's problems during the separation are discussed and, in the last chapter, the Reunion in Reality is taken up for consideration. Neither unconscious motivations as, for example, the activation of homosexuality in the man, nor anything vaguely resembling the psychology of love is approached. Generalities substitute for the complicated individualistic scene.

Veterans, even though not all of them have had opportunity to prove themselves as heroes of bed and battlefield, have matured during the war years. Since they are still young, they are admittedly confused and vaguely searching for enlightenment, as is so movingly described by Gertrude Stein in Brewsie and Willie. They will find no help in this book. Not vague generalities, but human understanding of the specific problem of each by his fellow-men, or its scientific counterpart in psychoanalytic psychology, is what is required.