Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth Schmitz

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Love and Marriage Expert

Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth Schmitz Quick Facts

Main Areas: Love, Marriage and Relationships - America's #1 Love and Marriage Experts
Best Sellers: Building a Love that Lasts and Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage
Career Focus: Charles: Multiple Award Winning Author, Speaker, University Academic Dean Emeritus, Professor Emeritus of Counseling and Family Therapy, Certificated Counselor. Elizabeth: Multiple Award Winning Author, Speaker, Educator, President of Successful Marriage Reflections LLC.
Affiliation: America's #1 Love and Marriage Experts

Dr. Charles and Dr. Elizabeth Schmitz are renowned love and marriage experts and multiple award-winning authors. The Doctors know that simple things matter in relationships. As America's #1 Love and Marriage Experts, they understand what makes relationships work because they have conducted three decades of research on all seven continents of the world about successful marriages, as well as sharing personal experiences drawn from their own 52-year marriage. Their best-selling books, Building a Love that Lasts: The Seven Surprising Secrets of Successful Marriage, How to Marry the Right Guy, and Golden Anniversaries have won the Mom's Choice Awards Gold Medal, the INDIE Book Awards Gold Medal, the Eric Hoffer Gold Medal, and the Nautilus Book Awards Medal Silver for Best Relationship Book.

Dr. Charles D. Schmitz has been a highly successful faculty member and administrator in higher education for more than 40 years. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia and is Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Counseling and Family Therapy at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz was an award-winning administrator and educator for 36 years. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia and has lectured widely in the areas of counseling and marital relationships. She is president of Successful Marriage Reflections, LLC.

Their best-selling book, Building A Love That Lasts, provides readers wtih insightful and practical tips from thousands of happily married couples from America's Love and Marriage Experts (available wherever books are sold). Their latest book, In Marriage Simple Things Matter has been called, "The Encyclopedia of What Makes Marriage Work" revealing how to save, enhance or sustain your marriage.

Free Articles & Book Excerpts

Quotes from Building a Love that Lasts: The Seven Surprising Secrets of Successful Marriage (Best Relationship Book of 2008)

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Articles About Love

http://www.simplethingsmatter.com/resources/for_dating_and_first_marriages.html

Articles About Marriage

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Marriage Around the World

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Marriage Advice

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Free Audio & Video Samples

Successful Marriage Secrets Revealed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVmkRGmZZGo

What Makes Love Last?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayLJ4vFVP8w

How Will I Know I Am In Love?

http://www.simplethingsmatter.com/resources/for_dating_and_first_marriages.html

Happily Ever After

http://www.simplethingsmatter.com/index.html

How to Marry the Right Guy

http://www.simplethingsmatter.com/Marriage_Advice_TV/How_To_Marry_The_Right_Guy.html

Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth Schmitz Audio & Video Programs

Images of Love

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Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth Schmitz Books

Building a Love that Lasts (Available wherever books are sold)

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Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage

http://www.simplethingsmatter.com/Charles_and_Elizabeth_Schmitz_books_and_products.html

How to Marry the Right Guy

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In Marriage Simple Things Matter

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Articles by this expert

SelfGrowth articles and saved writing connected to this expert.

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***Why Beautiful Women Do Not Marry Less Attractive Men

By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitzr "the marriage doctors"

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***How Can I Have A Successful Marriage?

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Are there ways to ensure that your marriage will be a successful marriage? The answer is of course, no. Life, love, and marriage do not come with absolute guarantees. However, there are ways to greatly increase your odds of having a successful marriage.

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***Marriage Is Alive And Well On Valentine's Day

Marriage Is Alive And Well On Valentine’s Day* By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitzr "the marriage doctors"

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***Strengthen Your Marriage Tip #3

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Strengthen Your Marriage Tip #3 Happy marriages all require simple, practical acts. Simple gestures. Simple conversations. Success in love and marriage depends upon an accumulation of having done the simple things to build the foundation for a lasting love.

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***So What Is This Thing Called Marriage?

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We live in a world of mixed messages. Our world is neither black nor white. The world we live in is full of powerful emotions. And the truth is, the world we live in is complicated – so very complicated. And for those of us who have lived in this world for a long time – well, everyday poses new challenges to our worldviews – to our “traditions.” At this stage of life, being open-minded is a virtue. On the other hand, being open-minded at this stage of life is difficult – it is complicated.

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***Should I Try To Save My Marriage?

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. As we have said for many years, “Most marriages and relationships are worth saving and can be saved, 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.

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***Al and Tipper Gore’s Marriage – What Happened?

Let’s face it, long time relationships sometimes end. And the simple truth is there isn’t always a compelling reason or reasons why. The separation of Al and Tipper Gore after 40 years of marriage is a good illustration of the “why” question – why did their love affair end after all these years?

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***Love is Colorblind to Those in Love

Real Love Is Colorblind By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. The romantic 1955 movie, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, tells the story of an American reporter who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor. And as you might have guessed, they encounter prejudice from both of their families. Such prejudice was, unfortunately, all too common in 1955. It is all too common in 2011.

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***There is No Recovery from Infidelity

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 nearly 28 years and we know this – the best marriages would never engage in unfaithfulness – they would never engage in infidelity.

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***Great Marriages Require Unencumbered Time

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Make no mistake about it – great marriages require unencumbered time! You have read our musings about the fundamental predisposition of every human being to have time alone – to have time only to their private thoughts.

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***Celebrity Marriages that Work

By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Who says celebrity marriages don’t last? We guess you might say, “They’d be wrong!”

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***Building a Love that Lasts for a Lifetime

By America's #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Today is a day to remember! Our publisher officially released our multiple award-winning book in paperback! Our labor of love – our heart’s work for the past 26+ years – has come to fruition in a format that will reach even more people.

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Websites & resources

SelfGrowth-published websites, downloads, and contributor profile websites connected to this expert.

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Simple Things Matter In Love and Marriage

Simple Things Matter in Love and Marriage. America's #1 Love and Marriage Experts tell you how to enhance your love and marriage by understanding what Simple Things Matter and learning how to apply them everyday in your relationships.

February 25, 2014

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Golden Anniversaries: Love and Successful Marriage

So you think your marriage will measure up! Perhaps, your relationship needs some work. Have fun taking our Marriage Quiz. The correct answers are based upon 25 years of our research on successful marriage. Feel free to "Ask the Doctors" your questions.

January 13, 2010

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The Marriage Doctors

Try the marriage quiz and find out how you stack up with the best marriages. Find out about articles, speeches and books that can help you have a successful marriage based on decades of research with happily married couples.

January 5, 2009

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Golden Anniversaries: Love and Successful Marriage

November 25, 2008

Contributor website

www.SimpleThingsMatter.com

http://www.SimpleThingsMatter.com

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth Schmitz

The truth is, American's love marriage! We just need to learn how to get it right the first time around.

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Touching becomes kind of a Morse Code-a substitute for language and the expression of love. Successful relationships have mastered the Morse Code of love - it's called touching.

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The relationship between mom and dad trumps everything else in a marriage. Get it right and good things follow. Get it wrong and lots of bad things often happen!

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LOVE is an accumulation of doing the simple things. Simple Things Matter!

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From their research America's #1 Love and Marriage Experts discovered seven pervasive characteristics present in all successful marriages. Their inspirational speech "Building a Love that Lasts" exposes their secrets for success through poignant, real life stories, garnered from hundreds of interviews with happily married couples over the past 37 years on all seven continents of the world, as well as from their own 52-year marriage.

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