Compared 22 married couples in marriage counseling with 22 couples who judged their marriages to be satisfactory by administering the Dyadic Adjustment Scale, the Marital Communication Inventory, and the Sexual Communication Inventory to each S. Results show that there were no significant differences between husbands' and wives' perceptions regarding their marital adjustment, marital communication, or sexual communication, as indicated by Ss' test scores. Findings reconfirm a strong positive correlation between marital adjustment and interspousal communication and between inhibited sexual communication and marital distress. Results support the importance of defining in therapy the specifics of the global complaint (lack of communication). It is suggested that, for couples seeking marital therapy, both sexual and marital communication interventions may be appropriate. (28 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)