Committing to a long-term relationship is normally a huge deal-especially when you have questions. With a focus on common sense over emotion, world-renowned sex and romantic relationship therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer offers straight-up information on whether you should stick it out or cut your losses and move ahead.

In Stay or Move, Dr. Ruth divides stressed couplings into three “tastes”: Dark Toxic (run!), Rocky Road (tough patch forward), and Merely Troubled (it’s well worth your time and effort).

She knows romantic relationships are rarely black and white-there’s always the bad with the good-so here she helps you determine where the scales within your relationship are tipping. Delving into everything from communicating to financial strains, parenting stresses to long-distance romantic relationships, she helps you to understand your passionate expectations-reasonable and unreasonable-what you are able to do to save a relationship, and exactly how and when you should state goodbye. And it all includes the wit and knowledge that has produced Dr. Ruth the one to turn to for placing your life jointly forever.