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Marriage Series: “Your Marriage Book is Very Interesting, but You Don’t Know My Spouse!”
Our Value Proposition. In our book, The Road to Marital Success is Unpaved: Seven Skills for Making Marriage Work, we describe nine important principles- meaning the necessary ingredients to have a successful marriage (e.g., honesty) and seven essential skills for successfully resolving marital disagreements. Our research indicates that when spouses apply the principles and use […]
Divorce Series: Managing Emotions in Divorce
Most divorces are dominated in the early stages by strong emotions. At the same time, the biggest obstacle to having a sensible divorce is strong emotions. It is, therefore, not surprising that as many as 80% of divorcing spouses make major mistakes handling their divorce because it is dominated by their strong emotions. Those mistakes […]
Divorce Series: Parental Alienation – Its Causes and Cures
Parental alienation and Game Theory[1]. When Ken was in private practice, one of his known areas of expertise was “parental alienation”. These were cases in which a child, at a minimum, expressed a desire, or more seriously, had successfully refused, to spend time with one of their parents.[2] In practical terms, this meant Ken serving […]
Marriage Series: A Real Example of Our Lessons Learned Regarding Marriage Principles and Skills
Our book, The Road to Marital Success is Unpaved: Seven Skills for Making Marriage Work, lays out nine necessary principles and seven essential skills based on research for reaching a successful marriage. A successful marriage includes as many disagreements as an unsuccessful marriage, but the disagreements get resolved successfully, quickly and with less emotional damage. […]
Marriage Series: A Good Marriage is a Matter of Life and Death
Is this an exaggeration? It is a well-known fact that married people generally live longer than divorced or single people. Less known is that spouses who describe their marriage as satisfying live longer than spouses who describe their marriage as unsatisfying. These differences can contribute to better health and can add over five years to […]
Marriage Series: “vive la difference”
Translated accurately, vive la difference means “long live the difference,” but more to the point, it means to celebrate differences. This is especially true in marriages. Sadly, many young, and not so young, people in the market for marriage equate “differences” with “incompatible.” This could not be further from the truth. There are two reasons […]
Marriage Series: Winning the Marriage Game
Almost everyone likes to play games, like golf or tennis. Better yet, everyone likes to win! The enjoyment gets better and better as players learn and practice the skills to play well and win more often. Most people who do not learn the skills involved become discouraged with the game and often quit. One way […]
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The Initial Divorce Client Interview: A New Approach[1] Kenneth H. Waldron, Ph.D. and Allan R. Koritzinsky, J.D.[2]
Our request…If you are a divorce lawyer, please consider using this approach. If you are a divorce client, please give your lawyer a copy. Thank you! INTRODUCTION Most potential divorcees and most divorce-related professionals define divorce as a legal event, dominated by the distribution of property, debt, future income (where and when applicable) and time […]
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