This paper describes the marriages of two patients in analysis, with emphasis on their object relations. Calogeras considers the neurotic conflicts in the two cases to be predominantly preoedipal in nature, specifically involving the rapprochement subphase of the separation-individuation phase. The dyadic conflicts of that period were relived in the marital dyad in the hope of gaining mastery over them. The conflicts were over engulfment, separation anxiety, addictive behavior, inability to say "no," and primitive somatization. These patients were able to fall in love but they were unable to remain in love in their marriages. It is interesting that one of the partners in each case continued a neurotic relationship with a living parent to the near exclusion of the partner. No reference is made to the paternal contribution in these relationships.