How to Survive a Marriage(1974)

How to Survive a Marriage is an American soap opera that aired on NBC from January 1974 to April 1975. Created by Anne Howard Bailey with input from NBC Vice President Lin Bolen, the series originally developed under the working title From This Moment. As an in-house NBC production, the show delivered the melodrama and interpersonal conflict typical of the era's daytime television. The serial followed the romantic entanglements and domestic crises of its characters across its brief but memorable run. Though it lasted just over a year, How to Survive a Marriage captured the emotional intensity that defined 1970s soap opera storytelling, blending personal struggles with the relationship dynamics its title promised to explore.