Considered perceptions of relationship quality (positive communication, caring gestures, recollections of happiest times) in 81 discordant clinic and 51 nondiscordant community couples. Spouses in nondistressed community marriages reported more frequent and higher quality positive communication and longer lasting and more recent happiest memories than did clinic spouses. Measures of relationship positivity differentiated aggressive from nonaggressive clinic subgroups. (Author/NB)