Creating Fairness in Marriage

I learned many lessons about being a good husband and partner in marriage growing up with my twin brother, Wendel. One of them was about fairness in relationship. Growing up, Wendel and I paid less attention to whether we looked alike and more attention on making sure that whatever one of us received, the other […]

The Partnership Marriage Webinar Series

Starting on February 17, 2016, I will be facilitating The Partnership Marriage Webinar Series designed specifically for individuals and couples interested in exploring partnership in marriage or in committed relationship. Participants will explore marriage as a life-long conversation for partnership and learn the conversational tools outlined in my book, The Partnership Marriage: Creating the Life You […]

The Co-Pilot Metaphor

When I work with couples, who are raising young children or children of school age, I often hear their complaint that they simply do not have enough time or space to attend to the well-being of their relationship or the quality of their marriage. I completely understand their dilemma. I can remember that when our […]

Same-Sex Marriage is a Right Nationwide!

“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would […]

Conversations for Partnership in Marriage

In my book, The Partnership Marriage: Creating the Life You Love…Together, I outline six distinct phases of marriage. Many stage models in the marriage literature are strikingly similar. In The Partnership Marriage, I focus on describing the marital commitments and kinds of conversations that are central to each phase of marriage. It is the premise […]

Six Radical Shifts in Marriage

Marriage has been transforming over the last four hundred years. The institution of marriage has changed as a reflection of evolving human ideals and social ideas of society. Specifically, there are six radical shifts that have taken place in the evolution of the marriage since the first Europeans came to America. Civil marriage is invented. […]

Getting Married? Maybe Later…

When Martha and I got married in August of 1974, it seemed as if that was what everyone was doing right after college. Today, that’s not what everyone is doing. Today, many young adults are waiting until much later to get married or are forgoing marriage altogether. For every subsequent generation in the last fifty […]

Increased Divorce Rate Among Baby Boomers

My wife, Martha, and I are baby boomers. Many of our good friends are baby boomers. We are in that cohort of Americans born after World War II between 1946 and 1964. This year the youngest baby boomers are turning 50 years old! The oldest of us are closing in on age 70 years. As […]

The Partnership Marriage is Published!

I am very happy to announce that The Partnership Marriage: Creating the Life You Love…Together has been published and is now available on Amazon!  You can purchase The Partnership Marriage by visiting my new book site, www.thepartnershipmarriagebook.com. Take a look! The last 6 months has been an exciting time for me. I have many, many people to […]

My Favorite Books on Marriage

As you may know I will be publishing my book, The Partnership Marriage: Creating the Life You Love…Together, very soon! I have the book cover ready to go and I just submitted the final proof to the publisher. I thought that I’d give you the list of my favorite books on marriage and link them […]