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***Marriage, Divorce, and Pre-Nuptial Agreements

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We have said it before and we now say it again – the divorce rate in the United States of America is NOT 50%! It is more likely, closer to 40%, perhaps, slightly less, according to some estimates. Here are the facts. According to Brad Wilcox in “The Evolution of Divorce” in the Fall 2009 issue of National Affairs, “The divorce rate fell from a historic high of 22.6 divorces per 1,000 married women in 1980 to 17.5 in 2007.

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***Is It Necessary To Test The Loyalty Of My Man?

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Guests on a recent morning TV show offered the following piece of “scientific fact” – “A woman will test the loyalty of her man each and every day!” Oh, really? As love and marriage experts for over three decades, we have NEVER had one single successfully married couple express this to us during our interviews. Not one! Where does this stuff come from?

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***Marriage The Second Time Around - Take It Slow

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We know very well how important it is to rebound in a timely manner from a failed relationship. Of the thousands of couples we have interviewed over the past 30 years on all 7 continents of the world, many of them were remarried after suffering through a relationship that didn’t work. And irrespective of the reason, there is a “pace” to take when building a love that lasts.

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***Lasting Love

Lasting Love By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth Schmitz "the marriage doctors" and Authors of the Book Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage (Available at Amazon.com) . Lasting love, ‘til death do us part. Married couples repeat this stanza or some variation of it in most marriage ceremonies.

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***Seven Tips To Finding Love Again

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Starting over is really difficult when it comes to love and marriage. Getting a divorce, breaking up, or losing the one you love due to their death can be overwhelmingly painful. The simple truth is this – you entered into your loving relationship with another person expecting it to last forever. But all acts of love are, we are afraid to say, not everlasting.

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***Love is Best Not Rushed

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. A few days ago we ran across a marvelous quote by Jonathan Carroll, author of Outside the Dog Museum. It goes like this: “You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.”

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***Hollywood's Version of Normal is NOT

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Hollywood, the media, and the Internet pundits have contributed greatly to the notion that the "abnormal" is "normal." Our research on all seven continents of the world over the past 30 years tells us clearly that "traditional norms" still predominantly prevail, but many, including the media, try desperately to depict a different scenario.

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***When A Good Woman Marries A Bad Man

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We are eternal optimists – make no mistake about that! With us, glasses are always half full, not half empty. The sun is always shining where we live! We are eternally hopeful that tomorrow will be a brighter day – and it usually is! We love life and are excited to get out of bed every morning. For us, every day is a joyful experience. We hope you spend most of your time feeling the same way. Frankly, it is hard for us to think negatively about any aspect of our life and our existence.

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***The Health Benefits of Being Happily Married

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. A recent report out of Israel suggests that a successful marriage substantially reduces the chances of stroke for men. It seems that if you are a man and UNhappily married, you have a 64% GREATER chance of having a stroke! The report concludes that men in unhappy marriages have a 64% higher risk of stroke when compared to those happily married. Pretty good incentive to be happily married we’d say!

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***Making A New Year’s Resolution You Can Keep

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Are you tired of making New Year’s resolutions you know you won’t keep? We all do it. How about we do something different this year? This is the time of the year when so many of us make promises to ourselves and to others that we rarely ever keep! These so-called “New Year’s Resolutions” sound good when we make them but, all too often, we ignore them by Valentine’s Day.

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***Debunking the “Hormone of Love”

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Have you ever heard of the so-called “hormone of love” called Oxytocin? This hormone has been promoted in some circles as “promoting long-term attachment” between two people who purport to love each other. Some have even suggested a “shot-in-the-arm of this substance” to make the world more lovely and loveable – to make two people more attracted to each other.

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***Tiger Woods in the Age of Infidelity

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. As you know, infidelity stories were at an all-time high in the media this year—from former Senator John Edwards and South Carolina Governor Terry Sanford to Late Night host David Letterman and Golfer Tiger Woods. It’s enough to make many people wonder if long-term marriage is even possible!

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***A New Year's Resolution You Can Keep!

A New Year’s Resolution You Can Keep! By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts Authors of the Best Relationship Book of 2008 INDIE Book Awards Gold Medal Winnerr Available at Golde Anniversaries.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and at Bookstores This will be our last posting as the Official Guides to Love on SelfGrowth.com.

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***Make Valentine's Day 365 Days a Year

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Today, we were on an hour show with a “blow-torch” radio station, talking about love, relationships, and Valentine’s Day. We had a blast! It is always fun reaching the folks with our positive message about our more than 30 years of research on love and marriage on all seven of the world's continents in 47 countries.

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***A Golden Anniversary With A Dancing Twist

A Golden Anniversary With A Dancing Twist By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts Authors of the Best Relationship Book of 2008 INDIE Book Awards Gold Medal Winnerr Available at Golde Anniversaries.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and at Bookstores Today, we were told a delightful story about life and love, and dancing.

Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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***Toilet seats can come between you and your spouse!

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. As we say repeatedly, the simple things matter in love and marriage. Do the simple things and your marriage or loving relationship will prosper. Charley learned his lesson some 43 years ago! He grew up in a rural area of Missouri back when outhouses were more prevalent than toilets that flushed!

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***How to Fight Fair in a Marriage

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We are often asked this question – “Is arguing healthy for a marriage?” The simple answer is, “Yes!” When a husband and wife argue, they are engaging in a perfectly normal and expected part of what it means to be married. In fact, disagreement between two people in love is actually healthy for their relationship. To argue or not argue is NOT the question! The question should be, “How do we argue effectively and fairly?”

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***Toilet Seat Love

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. As we say repeatedly, the little things matter in love and marriage. Do the little things and your marriage or loving relationship will prosper. Charley learned his lesson nearly a half-century ago! He grew up in a rural area of Missouri back when outhouses were more prevalent than toilets that flushed! When we first got married some 47 years ago, Charley, “the consummate gentleman” as Liz refers to him, had to learn an important lesson about toilet seats.r

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***Reflections On A Half-Century Of Marriage

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. When we said our marriage vows 48 years ago and promised “Until Death Do Us Part,” we never imagined those 48 years would go by so quickly. But they did. This year, we will celebrate our 48th Wedding Anniversary. Just imagine, being successfully married for 48 years! And as a friend of ours used to say, “And to the same person!” Having a <a href="http://www.simplethingsmatter.com/articles/Successful_Marriage.htmlr

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***What are the Warning Signs of a Failing Marriage?

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We have studied marriage around the globe for three decades. And while our focus has principally been on successful marriage, we have interviewed a lot of folks whose marriage was in trouble – whose marriage was falling apart. There is nothing more painful than watching your marriage disintegrate before your eyes. It hurts. In fact, it may be amongst the most painful experiences you will have in your lifetime.

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***How Does Age Difference Matter in a Marriage?

America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts Over the years, we have been asked if the age differential between people contemplating marriage really matters. Our answer – it depends! In our thousands of interviews on six continents of the world, we have learned this – when you are truly in love, your age and the age of the one you love really doesn’t matter for the most part. But there is a reality to this notion as well. There are circumstances when the difference in age does matter.

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***Parents, Love, and the Holidays

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. This Holiday Season again reminds us of the importance of being with those you love as you celebrate the joy of the season. We have heard repeatedly during our many interviews with successfully married couples around the world the importance they attach to seeing their children over the holidays and on other special occasions. A parent’s love is with you everywhere. Every time you are far from home you are never alone. Your parents are always with you.

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***Pre-Nuptial Agreement: Should You Have One?

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. In the September 14th edition of the Huffington Post an article entitled, Prenuptial Agreements Are They Necessary? Two Legal Experts Debate, causes us to chime in on this important debate based upon our 30+ years of research on successful marriage around the world.

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***Morally Indefensible Notions About Marriage

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We have never heard anything as outrageous as the views espoused in a book entitled, A Gift for Muslim Couple, by Maulavi Ashraf Ali Thanvi. Us being sick to our collective stomachs is a gross understatement of the outrage we feel about the garbage articulated in this book.

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***Simple Things Matter During the Holidays

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts Truth is, we miss our parents and our grandparents. True to the natural course of life, they are all gone now. They were parents in life and, in many ways, parents in death. They all lived long lives. They all lived full and productive lives. And they all loved the Holiday Season because of the simple things. The Holiday Season is truly a season for all.

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***In Building Relationships the Simple Things Matter

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Thirty years of research on successful love and marriage has taught us many things, but first and foremost – no love has blossomed or been sustained without doing the “simple things.” Big things don’t matter until your relationship has mastered the art of doing the simple things day in and day out in your relationship with another human being whom you purport to love.

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***Should You Try To Save Your Marriage?

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We have said for many years, “Most marriages and relationships can be saved, but not all!” And our corollary has always been – “Most marriages and relationships are worth saving, but not all!” Here’s what we mean. In the case of abuse – sexual, physical, mental – many failing marriages and relationships are simply not worth saving. In fact, to attempt to save them puts one or both partners in the relationship at risk for further abuse. Frankly, we know that some marriages and relationships are not worth saving.

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***Marriage and the Empty Nest: Five Strategies for Rediscovering Your Spouse

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Okay, the children have all left home. You and your spouse are finally alone after two decades of marriage. Now what? How do you cope? What lies in store for the two of you? These are questions faced by millions of married couples worldwide each and every year. If you are lucky, it is something you will have to deal with some day.

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***Is time alone necessary for a great marriage?

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. There is absolutely no question about it, great marriages require time alone – time away from each other! We have witnessed time and time again marriages in which one or both partners failed to understand the importance of being alone, not only for themselves, but for their spouse as well. When we first introduce this concept to others, the reaction is usually one of surprise.

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***Can You Save Your Marriage?

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Most marriages and relationships are worth saving and can be saved, but not all!” Failing marriages involving sexual, physical or mental abuse are simply not worth saving. In fact, to attempt to save them puts one or both partners in the relationship at risk for further abuse.

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***Helping Your Mom and Your Marriage – Finding a Balance

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We owe our moms a lot. While we are lucky that we get to have them around, we have to find a balance between helping our mom and nurturing our own marriage. Over-committing time in a helping relationship at the expense of your marriage will, in the long run, not benefit you, your mom or your spouse. First, you will need to help your mom understand just how important it is to you to have a successful and loving relationship with your spouse.

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***Marriage Secrets from The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. If you are like us, you are sick and tired of all the debate about what constitutes a successful marriage or relationship. Does it really matter what others think about OUR love, who we marry, or what makes us happy in life? Shouldn’t the real question be, “What does it take to sustain a loving relationship for a lifetime?”

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