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- ***Strengthen Your Marriage Tip #6 - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2013 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Strengthen Your Marriage Tip #6 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 ...
Views: 1919(15 votes) - ***The Current State of Marriage in Italy - by Submitted on May 03, 2011 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. This week, we are on another one of our “love excursions!” As marriage researchers and writers (We have be engaged in this work for nearly three decades now!), we absolutely love to travel around the world and interview successfully married couples. ...
Views: 4045(15 votes) - ***The Current State of Marriage in Italy - by Submitted on May 03, 2011 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. This week, we are on another one of our “love excursions!” As marriage researchers and writers (We have be engaged in this work for nearly three decades now!), we absolutely love to travel around the world and interview successfully married couples. ...
Views: 4045(15 votes) - ***Couples Want to be Alone Together - by Submitted on Nov 09, 2010 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Over the past several days, we have been in sunny southern California conducting interviews with selected celebrities including a former priest and his wife and couples with very famous last names. Tomorrow, we tape a segment of the television show, ...
Views: 4262(25 votes) - ***Love and Marriage in Ireland Today - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2010 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy 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 ...
Views: 4456(32 votes) - ***Is It Necessary To Test The Loyalty Of My Man? - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2013 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Guests on a recent morning TV show offered the following piece of “scientific fact” – “A woman will test the loyalty of her man each and every day!” Oh, really? As love and marriage experts for over three decades, we have NEVER had one single ...
Views: 1969(28 votes) - ***How Important Is Trust In Marriage? - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2013 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Successfully married couples literally trust each other with their lives, their wellbeing, and their sacred honor. The words they use to describe the one they love more often than not include words and expressions like trust, honesty, loyalty, ...
Views: 2959(27 votes) - ***Debunking the “Hormone of Love” - by Submitted on Dec 07, 2010 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Have you ever heard of the so-called “hormone of love” called Oxytocin? This hormone has been promoted in some circles as “promoting long-term attachment” between two people who purport to love each other. Some have even suggested a ...
Views: 4330(23 votes) - ***Put the Holiday Spirit in Your Marriage - by Submitted on Dec 02, 2012 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy 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, ‘Cause no matter how far away you ...
Views: 3243(23 votes) - ***Is Marriage Dead? - by Submitted on Oct 16, 2013 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. The institution of marriage is NOT dead! Statistically, there is substantial support for this view. According to the best estimates we can find, there were nearly 45,000,000 marriages worldwide last year. There were approximately 9,000,000 ...
Views: 1901(26 votes) - ***Never Go To Bed Mad At Each Other - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2011 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy 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 ...
Views: 4914(26 votes) - ***Do You Need Time Alone In Your Marriage? - by Submitted on Dec 15, 2013 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. In our interviews around the world over the past 30+ years we have come to appreciate the wonderful advice we have received from happily and successfully married couples. At the top of the advice list from these couples is this simple notion – great ...
Views: 1842(25 votes) - ***Why do Some Find it Difficult to Make a Commitment to Love? - by Submitted on May 26, 2010 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy 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 ...
Views: 7275(34 votes) - ***Al and Tipper Gore’s Marriage – What Happened? - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2010 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzLet’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 ...
Views: 7997(45 votes) - ***Love Is Saying You’re Sorry - by Submitted on Dec 09, 2013 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy 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 ...
Views: 1773(12 votes) - ***Should I Try To Save My Marriage? - by Submitted on Oct 10, 2013 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy 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 ...
Views: 2034(24 votes) - ***The Importance of “WE” in Great Marriages - by Submitted on Sep 02, 2013 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy 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 ...
Views: 1834(24 votes) - ***The Internet is Full of Fake Experts about Love and Marriage! - by Submitted on Dec 02, 2013 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Increasingly, there are folks who post lots of vacuous stuff on the Internet who purport to be experts. They imply through their postings that they are all-knowing – that they have actually written widely about their topic, done the research to ...
Views: 1995(12 votes) - ***Chick-fil-A: Marriage and Free Speech - by Submitted on Oct 18, 2012 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a ...
Views: 2888(20 votes) - ***Strengthen Your Marriage Tip #4 - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2013 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Strengthen Your Marriage Tip #4 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 ...
Views: 1691(10 votes) - ***Parents, Love, and the Holidays - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2010 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. This Holiday Season again reminds us of the importance of being with those you love as you celebrate the joy of the season. We have heard repeatedly during our many interviews with successfully married couples around the world the importance they ...
Views: 3475(37 votes) - ***Successful Marriage: The Secrets Revealed - by Submitted on Jan 15, 2008 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzSuccessful Marriage: The Secrets Revealed By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz "the marriage doctors" Award Winning Authors of the NEW Hardback Book Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage ©2008 Get Your FREE Bonus Items with The Doctors Just ...
Views: 3418(25 votes) - ***Sustaining Love In Tough Economic Times - by Submitted on Dec 01, 2013 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. For the past several years the economy has been in decline, the unemployment rate has gone up, and home ownership has taken a dip. Sometimes, watching the Evening News causes one to wonder if the good old USA is in decline, if the financial state of ...
Views: 1606(9 votes) - ***Is Your Spouse Your Best Friend? - by Submitted on Nov 16, 2013 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Here’s the rub – being IN love is easy. It expresses an emotion common to those relationships that have transcended the millennia. Being in love is central to the best marriages – to the best relationships between two people. But being in love is ...
Views: 1784(17 votes) - ***Looking for Love in All the Right Places - by Submitted on May 14, 2010 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We believe that many folks are afraid of marriage because they read the dire predictions about marriage in the news, they watch way too much television where the focus is, more often than not, on glorifying sex and multiple relationships, and because ...
Views: 5725(38 votes) - ***Fall In Love All Over Again - by Submitted on Jan 28, 2014 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. It is hard to accept by many, but love sometimes ends. Marriages fail. Relationships collapse. The flames of love die out. What started out with so much promise sometimes ends in disaster. Couples who fell passionately in love once now find ...
Views: 1809(8 votes) - ***What Does Love Look Like? - by Submitted on Feb 20, 2008 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzWhat Does Love Look Like? By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz "the marriage doctors" Award Winning Authors of the NEW Hardback Book Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage Makes a GREAT Wedding or Anniversary Gift Also available at Amazon.com ...
Views: 6028(28 votes) - ***What to Say to the One You Love? - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2009 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We have learned lots of interesting and important lessons from the thousands of successfully married couples we have interviewed over the years – of that you can be sure. There is no question – the wisdom of these wonderful marriages humbles us when ...
Views: 5499(39 votes) - ***A New Year's Resolution You Can Keep! - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2008 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzA New Year’s Resolution You Can Keep! By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts Authors of the Best Relationship Book of 2008 INDIE Book Awards Gold Medal Winner Available at GoldenAnniversaries.com, BarnesandNoble.com, ...
Views: 2330(27 votes) - ***Simple Things Matter In Love And Relationships - by Submitted on Jul 23, 2008 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzSimple Things Matter In Love and Relationships By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz "the marriage doctors" Authors of the INDIE Book Awards Gold Medal Winner for Best Relationship Book of 2008 Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage Available at ...
Views: 4334(25 votes) - ***The Purpose of Marriage - Is It To Have Children? - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2007 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzThe Purpose of Marriage - Is It To Have Children? 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) . In the last several months a great deal has ...
Views: 3944(23 votes) - ***Are You Scaring Away Your Chance At Love? - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2010 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzAre You Scaring Away Your Chance At Love? By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Several months ago we penned an article entitled, “Great Love Is Best Not Rushed.” Our principle theme was this – in the beginning of a budding love relationship, don’t get in a hurry in your quest for ...
Views: 3554(38 votes) - ***Newlyweds Should NEVER Makes These 7 Mistakes - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2013 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Ah, wedding season. That time of year when brides and grooms say, “I do” and live happily ever after. Unfortunately, dreaming of “happily ever after” can create unrealistic expectations and lots of problems down the road. So much of marriage ...
Views: 1928(38 votes) - ***Will Sex Save Your Marriage? - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2010 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We thought we had heard everything until this! We heard recently that the Reverend Ed Young of the Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas told his congregation during a Sunday worship service that he wanted married couples in his congregation to ...
Views: 4407(34 votes) - ***Strengthen Your Marriage Tip #7 - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2013 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Strengthen Your Marriage Tip #7 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 ...
Views: 1664(15 votes) - ***The Best Marriages on Six Continents of the World - by Submitted on Aug 12, 2009 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. The “heart of the matter” is this – successful marriages around the world are bound together by their commonalities – certainly not by their differences. Learn the lessons, emulate them, practice them, take them to heart, and engage in the simple ...
Views: 4435(28 votes) - ***Love and Marriage Cinderella Style - by Submitted on May 15, 2009 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. The Cinderella Story is a wonderful story. It does, indeed, warm the heart. It certainly inspires. Love is always inspiring! But the truth is, it is an idealized version of falling in love that rarely ever approximates the reality or the truth of ...
Views: 2941(37 votes) - ***The Valentine's Day Gift of Time - by Submitted on Oct 18, 2012 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. In these tough economic times we think it is important to again remind folks that the best things in life are free. To love, to be loved, and to give the gift of time is the best gift you can give to someone. This is an especially important message ...
Views: 4457(37 votes) - ***Love and Marriage in Canada - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2007 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzLove and Marriage in Canada 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 fell in love in Canada today. You can, of course, read that ...
Views: 2939(24 votes) - ***The Simple Things Matter In Life And Love - by Submitted on Mar 09, 2008 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzGolden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage Makes a GREAT Wedding or Anniversary Gift Also available at Amazon.com and your local bookstore Let’s get serious about love! Truth is, it’s time to quit pretending that love is so hard to understand. Here’s the bottom ...
Views: 2088(24 votes) - ***The Recipe for Finding Love Again - by Submitted on Aug 03, 2009 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We know how you feel! Starting over is really difficult when it comes to love and marriage. Getting a divorce, breaking up, or losing the one you love due to their death can be overwhelmingly painful. The simple truth is this – you entered into ...
Views: 3747(35 votes) - ***When Am I Ready To Get Married? - by Submitted on Oct 02, 2008 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzWhen Am I Ready To Get Married? By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz "the marriage doctors" Authors of the “Best Relationship Book of 2008” INDIE Book Awards Gold Medal Winner Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage Available at ...
Views: 6554(35 votes) - ***Married With Children: Jon and Kate Have It All Wrong - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2009 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Like us, we are sure many of you have been following the on-going saga surrounding the so-called “reality” show, Jon & Kate Plus Eight. Well, it seems like Jon and Kate are going to go their separate ways – divorce seems eminent. Ah, but ...
Views: 3190(33 votes) - ***Memorial Day and Love Forever - by Submitted on May 26, 2008 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzMemorial Day and Love Forever By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz "the marriage doctors" Authors of the INDIE Book Awards Gold Medal Winner for Best Relationship Book of 2008 Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage Available at ...
Views: 2184(22 votes) - ***The Look of Love In Brazil - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2008 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzThe Look of Love in Brazil By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz "the marriage doctors" Authors of the “Best Relationship Book of 2008” INDIE Book Awards Gold Medal Winner Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage Available at ...
Views: 1929(22 votes) - ***The Perfect Wedding: Jenna Bush to Wed Henry Hager - by Submitted on May 08, 2008 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzThe Perfect Wedding: Jenna Bush to Wed Henry Hager By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz "the marriage doctors" #1 Love and Marriage Experts on Google and Yahoo Award Winning Authors of the NEW Hardback Book Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful ...
Views: 3142(22 votes) - ***Marriage Can Last a Lifetime for Some Very Good Reasons - by Submitted on Jan 19, 2010 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Recently, we reviewed some research that addressed the issue of how to make the “romance” of a marriage last. While we think the essay generally reflects what we have found in our 26+ years of research on six of the world’s seven continents, we take ...
Views: 6287(42 votes) - ***When A Good Woman Marries A Bad Man - by Submitted on Jul 30, 2009 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We are eternal optimists – make no mistake about that! With us, glasses are always half full, not half empty. The sun is always shining where we live! We are eternally hopeful that tomorrow will be a brighter day – and it usually is! We love life ...
Views: 5090(31 votes) - ***Cheating On Your Spouse Is Not Okay! - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2009 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. It appears that the Governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, has admitted to having an affair. His extramarital love affair with a woman from Argentina has again driven home the point that trust is at the heart of the most successful marriages, and ...
Views: 3262(43 votes) - ***Love And Marriage In Brazil - by Submitted on Aug 03, 2008 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzLove And Marriage In Brazil By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz "the marriage doctors" Authors of the “Best Relationship Book of 2008” INDIE Book Awards Gold Medal Winner Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage Available at ...
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