Anger is humanity’s survival kit -a life-saving resource. It is an emotion that offers the raw material for growth and change. David Mace believes that anger can have positive functions. He calls his theory “”management of anger”” a way of dealing with the love-anger cycles all intimate relations go through, particularly the relationship of marriage. Mace shows that anger can help husbands and wives love and support each other as they grow in their relationship. (Author abstract)