“No one gets married to a boring
person having no fun . . .
yet most marriages wind up there!”
Marriage in America is in a crisis.
Consider these sobering facts:
- One out of every two marriages end in divorce.
- In 1940 over 84% of adult Americas were married, IN 2009 that number dropped below 50% for the first time in our nation’s history, married people are in the minority.
- Over 1 million children lose their fathers presence in their homes each year.
- Children of divorce are much more likely to suffer a wide range of problems and negative life outcomes than children of whose parents stay together.
- Yet, even with the rise of divorce, 90% of adults list as getting and being happily married as one of their top life goals.
- Divorce is the leading cause of poverty in American costing U.S. taxpayers more than $30 billion every year.
In spite of these bleak statistics, we are in love with the idea of “getting married.” But here is the brutal truth, it takes a different set of skill, knowledge, and training to “be happily married over a lifetime.”
You and your spouse are not weird; you’re just weary of doing the same old thing; getting the same old result! Because we don’t understand the keys to growing a great marriage over a lifetime, we doubted our efforts and as a result . . .
- We’ve made marriage work!
- We’ve made it miserable!
- We made it toxic and terrible
- And in some cases, we’ve made it downright hell?
Isn’t it time we made it fun again?