婚姻經營並不容易，近半數的伴侶以離婚收場。決定是否維持歹戲拖棚的婚姻更是許多夫妻的漫長煎熬。婚姻生存遊戲節目將婚姻治療的場所推到文明社會之外。我們將關係岌岌可危，瀕臨離婚的夫妻們放到荒郊野外72個小時，切斷他們和現實生活的一切聯繫：沒有孩子、沒有手機、沒有帳單等干擾，迫使他們全心面對彼此。一旦抵達現場，夫妻將沉浸在瞬息萬變的的野外療法和婚姻的嚴酷挑戰，在生理上被推到極限的情況下，他們必須解決彼此間最嚴重的問題。他們也必須進行一系列由婚姻治療師設計的練習，找到摧毀兩人關係的核心。72小時後夫妻必須決定要繼續堅持還是分道揚鑣。
Marriage isn't easy. Nearly half of them end in divorce. Deciding whether or not to stay in a marriage that isn't working is a huge decision that many couples struggle with - often for years on end. "Surviving Marriage" is an unscripted series that pushes marriage therapy to the very edges of civilization... literally. We place a married couple teetering on the brink of divorce into a real-life survival situation in the middle of the remote wilderness for 72 hours, stripping away all distractions from their real lives - no kids, cell phones, bills, etc - and forcing them to focus on what's really important: each other. Once there, they are immersed in a marriage crucible - an incredibly volatile 'wilderness therapy', pushing them physically to the brink, which forces them to deal with their deepest issues. But it also requires them to perform a series of exercises designed by a therapist to specifically get to the heart of what is ruining their relationship. When the clock runs out, and they've made it to the extraction point, each couple must decide whether to continue working on their marriage once back in civilization... or call it quits.
