***The Perfect Wedding Gift
The Perfect Wedding Gift By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitzr "the marriage doctors"
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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***Love and Inspiration in Morocco!
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We have often wondered over the years if the “stuff” that makes marriages work in the Judeo-Christian tradition around the world applies to marriages in predominately Muslim countries. Our first country in which we interviewed married Muslim couples was the enchanted nation of Morocco.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***What Are The Simple Things That Matter In Love And Relationships?
What Are The Simple Things Matter In Love and Relationships? By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitzr "the marriage doctors"
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Anonymity Versus the Truth about Marriage
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Often we wonder, silently and out-loud – why have so many good folks fallen prey to the lies and distortions about marriage in the USA promulgated by so many uninformed people or people with some kind of political agenda? Many times, they have an agenda protected by anonymous acrimony?
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Compatibility in Marriage: The Core Values of Love
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Over the past 30 years, we have learned much about what makes great marriages tick – about what makes them successful. Even in spite of ominous odds from time to time, the best marriages survive and thrive, and we know why! They survive and thrive because they are committed to the Core Values present in all great marriages and successful loving relationships. Here they are in a nutshell.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***The Valentines Day Touch
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts Give a Valentine’s Day present of touch to the one you love. What could be better or more meaningful? Here’s why it could just be the best Valentine’s Day present ever. We have been married for 42 years and simply can’t keep our hands off of each other! For many years, we thought we were unique. Then we started our research for our book, and did we get a big surprise -- virtually every happily married coupled we interviewed reported the same condition!
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Can Holidays Cause Marriage Breakups?
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Parents, Love and Holidays
Parents, Love and Holidays By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth Schmitz "the marriage doctors"
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Should the rules of marriage be re-written?
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. There are times when we just want to retire to a remote island in the South Pacific! Why, you ask? Simple, really.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Debunking The Divorce Rate Myth
Debunking The Divorce Rate Myth By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitzr "the marriage doctors"
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Love the Second Time Around - Falling Back in Love
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. People in love sometimes fall out of love. But sometimes, they fall back into love all over again. While we have seen many instances of this in our interviews over the years, a great example of what we are talking about is the love affair between Tom and Anna.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Love is Alive and Well in Antarctica
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Every once in awhile you meet extraordinary people! We had that great pleasure recently in Long Beach, California. Our lives will never be the same! We looked in the faces of love and saw an extraordinary marriage! We have seen this look before, but this one was very special!
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***What Are the Myths About Marriage in the USA in 2011?
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. First, here are the facts. If you get married before the age of 24 in the USA, you have a MUCH higher chance of getting divorced than those who get married at 25 and beyond. The divorce rate for those getting married after the age of 25 is about 30% -- less than half the divorce rate for those getting married before the age of 24! This is a very significant difference we think!
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Marriage in France is Alive and Well
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Our recent trip to France reinforced for us something we already anticipated – marriage is alive and well in France.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***The Seven Most Common Mistakes Made By Marriage Counselors - Part 1 of 2
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We have studied successfully married couples for over 26 years on six of the world’s seven continents. We have traveled in more countries than we can remember. And while our focus has been on those who have made their marriages work; we are also constantly reminded that some marriages need help. Some marriages need another human being to help them make their marriage survive and thrive.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Never Go To Bed Mad At Each Other
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. On the Today Show a remarkable segment aired. It was remarkable not because it was good or enlightening, but because it wasn’t. In fact, it was downright misleading and irresponsible based upon the research evidence, and we want to comment on it.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***The Ten Essential Virtues of Love
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. This morning, a great friend of ours sent along an article that we were really taken with. For those who have read our book, Building a Love that Lasts (Jossey-Bass/Wiley 2010), you may recall a chapter entitled, “A Tribute to Lasting Love” (pp. 259-262).
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Read article***Love Is Saying You’re Sorry
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. The most famous line from the wildly popular 1970 book (and subsequent movie), Love Story, by Erich Segal is, “Love means never having to say you are sorry.” As a New York Times number 1 bestseller, the book became the top selling work of fiction for all of 1970 in the United States, and was translated into more than 20 languages worldwide according to Wikipedia. The motion picture of the same name was the number one box office attraction of 1971.”
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Traditional Marriage is Alive and Well
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We know, we hear them all the time – those purveyors of half-truths, un-truths, and political agendas. You know the ones – the ones who continually pronounce to the world that traditional marriage is dead. Well, all we can say is – don’t believe it!
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Read article***The Loving Touch
The Loving Touch By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitzr "the marriage doctors"
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***The Divorce Rate Is Not 50 Percent
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Let’s face it; the oft-quoted statistic that 50% of marriages in America end in divorce discourages a lot of couples who are contemplating marriage. Who could blame them? Who wants to get into relationships where there is the expectation of failure half the time! But the truth is, the suggestion that there is a 50% divorce rate in American is simply wrong, wrong, wrong!
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***A Symphony Of Love
A Symphony of 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) . Tonight, we heard the sounds of love! Over the years we have seen love, felt love, heard about love, and been in love.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Love, Marriage, and Prenuptial Agreements
Love, Marriage, and Prenuptial Agreements 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) . We believe that Prenuptial Agreements are a bad idea, period! Just imagine, telling someone that you love him or her, but you don't trust them!
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Romney Right About Marriage and Poverty
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Governor Romney was correct when he made the statement in the second Presidential Debate that “ . . . if there’s a two parent family, the prospect of living in poverty goes down dramatically. The opportunities that the child will be able to achieve increase dramatically.”
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Put the Holiday Spirit in Your Marriage
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Let’s face it, holiday lights help put you in the spirit of the season. Like the holiday lights, the people you love and who love you light up your life. “Oh, there’s no place like home for the holidays,rn‘Cause no matter how far away you roam, When you pine for the sunshine of a friendly gaze, For the holidays, you can’t beat home, sweet home.”
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***How Will I Know I Am In Love?
How will I know I am in Love? By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. In our many interviews with people “in love” we ask them, perhaps, the most revealing question of the interview – “How will I know I am in love?” We have heard very consistent answers. And conversely, many people involved in a new loving relationship, particularly young people, often ask us, “How do I know if I am in love?” We think we know the answer.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***How To Talk Serious With Your Mate
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Over the many years we have been conducting research about love and marriage, we are continually reminded of the important role effective communication between couples plays in the overall health and well being of their relationship.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***The All Star Game and Summer Love
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. There is something about the summer that encourages love. Maybe it’s the bright summer sun. It could be the warm summer breeze. Maybe it’s the refreshing summer water! Perhaps, it is the summer vacation. And isn’t the All Star Game played in the middle of the summer? In fact, baseball lovers know the All Star Game is played in our home town of St. Louis this summer. Whatever the cause, it appears that most people fall in love during the summer and get married during the summer – more than in any other season of the year.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***How to Deal with Money Problems in a Marriage
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. While times are tougher than normal in the country today, the best marriages and love affairs will sustain the test of tough times for all the right reasons – during good or bad times the best loving relationships find ways to survive and thrive.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***From Prague with Love
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Here we go again – interviewing successfully married couples around the world!
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***For Love and Tuna Melts
For Love and Tuna Melts! By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitzr "the marriage doctors"
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***The Importance of “WE” in Great Marriages
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. The feeling of togetherness is one of the key ingredients of a successful marriage. It is the feeling of “we are in this together and are stronger because of our relationship.” While the importance of togetherness is easy to understand, for many couples it is difficult to put into practice in their relationship.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Make Love Your New Years Resolution
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. 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. You know the familiar refrains – I will lose weight. I will quit smoking. I will call my Mom at least once a week. And the list goes on. How about you do something different this year.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Simple Things Matter in Marriage – Even in Venice!
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Have you ever been to Venice, Italy? Wow, what a wonderfully romantic place! When you ride in a gondola together by Marco Polo’s house, stroll on St. Mark’s Square while holding hands, enjoy the grandeur of the Doges Palace, or share a bottle of Italian wine at one of the many intimate restaurants in Venice, you quickly learn that you are in a place where love transcends everything! Venice pulls at the heartstrings of love. Make no mistake about that.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Physical Love
Physical Love By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz "the marriage doctors" and Authors of the Book Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage (Available at Amazon.com) . Now that we have your attention . . . We completed our annual physical examinations today. Long ago we established the tradition of scheduling our respective annual physicals on the same day. Why, you ask?
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***How To Marry The Right Guy
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Women often ask, "What is the secret to a happy marriage?" Our immediate answer is always the same, "Marry the right guy!" On the surface this may seem like a flippant answer to such a serious question, but it really isn't.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Traditional Versus Same-Sex Love and Relationships
Traditional Versus Same-Sex Love and Relationships By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitzr "the marriage doctors"
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Does Marriage Improve Your Health?
America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts Over the past decade there have been a number of research articles expounding on the positive virtues of marriage and good health. We have reported on them. And as you know, there are some very strong opinions that accompany the research findings – debates about whether same-sex marriage and relationships count – debates about what constitutes a “marriage” – and debates about “what is true love?” Sometimes, the debates get heated! Trust us, we know!
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***The 5 Things You Should NEVER Say to Your Spouse
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Just as important as saying the right thing to the one you love is to avoid saying statements that have the potential to destroy the foundation of the relationship. Saying just one wrong thing can negate an entire day of good statements and actions. Negative and hurtful statements can have the power to cut through the very fabric of the bond between two people in love. Here are those five things you should NEVER say to your spouse:
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Infidelity is Not Okay and it is Not Forgivable!
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Frankly, if we hear yet one more person talk about infidelity in a relationship as if it were okay, not a big deal, and forgivable, we are going to get angry! We have studied the best marriages for more than 25 years and we know this – the best marriages would never engage in unfaithfulness – they would never engage in infidelity. Here is the whole truth and nothing but the truth – being disloyal to the one you love is an unpardonable sin!
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***My Valentine My Love
My Valentine My Love By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitzr "the marriage doctors"
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Lessons of Love From Your Dog
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. You can learn a lot about love from a dog. Over the years, we have learned much about the essentials of a loving relationship by observing our dog, Jake. We are proud to tell you that Jake is truly a Wonder Dog. He is loving, caring, intuitive, intelligent, handsome, and a wonderful friend and companion. Frankly, we love him like a child. And the good news is, he loves us right back! And he loves us unconditionally! Jake is a mixed breed dog – half Golden Retriever and half Yellow Lab. He is a marvelous dog.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Why is Commitment to Love Difficult?
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Falling in love with another human being is easy, but making a commitment to love them forever is “up in the air” for many people. We like the term “up in the air” from the movie title for a whole bunch of reasons, primarily because it aptly describes the struggles so many folks go through when it comes to making a commitment to love somebody for a lifetime.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Having to Say You're Sorry IS Love
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. “Love means never having to say you are sorry.” This line from the wildly popular 1970 book (and subsequent movie), Love Story, by Erich Segal helped it become the New York Times number one bestseller and the top selling work of fiction for all of 1970 in the United States. It was translated into more than 20 languages worldwide. The motion picture of the same name was the number one box office attraction of 1971, according to Wikipedia.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Why do Some Find it Difficult to Make a Commitment to Love?
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Falling in love with another human being is easy, but making a commitment to love them forever is “up in the air” for many people.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Do Great Marriages have a Cinderella Life?
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We have constantly and relentlessly pursued this question in our interviews around the world – “Do the great marriages have a Cinderella life?” And the answer is – drum roll please! – NO! Too often, people assume that those who have the most successful marriages live in some kind of la-la land – a perfect world – a place where everything is fair, just, and beautiful – a Nirvana land! Here’s the truth – nothing could be further from the truth!
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Caring for Aging Parents While Keeping Your Love Alive
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Caring for an aging parent can take a very serious toll on your relationship with your spouse. What are the tips on how to help caregivers keep their love alive while caring for an aging parent(s)? What are the warning signs that your relationship is suffering?
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***Love and Marriage in Ireland Today
By America's #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We arrived in Dublin, Ireland for a week of interviews on the Emerald Isle with successfully married couples. Our journey is part of our new "simple things matter in love and marriage" series and relates to our continuing search for great marriages around the world.
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***7 Critical Issues To Discuss Before Marriage
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. While we have learned many lessons about great marriages from the thousands of interviews with successfully married couples around the world, we have concluded that what you do in the early stages of your relationship will go a long way towards determining the overall success and longevity of your marriage. Here are the seven most important issues we learned through our research that should be discussed before getting married:
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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Read article***What's Love Got To Do With It?
What’s Love Got To Do With It? By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitzr "the marriage doctors"
Primary topic: Marriage Coaching
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