INTRODUCTION
depression
ROBLES
Couple distress and conflicts are common phenomena and have consistently been linked with reduced physical and mental health (e.g., Robles et al., The marriage checkup (MC; Cordova, Randomized control trials in the United States and in Denmark have found small to medium effects on relationship functioning as well as on individual depression symptoms of two annual MCs across 1 or 2 years (e.g., Cordova et al., In terms of improving relationship health, results of the previous RCTs (Cordova et al., 