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- Sex, Sex, Sex! - by Submitted on Jul 17, 2007 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzSex, Sex, Sex! By Charles D. Schmitz, Ph.D. Elizabeth A. Schmitz, Ed.D. "the marriage doctors" and Authors of the Book Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage (Available at Amazon.com) . First of all, please understand, there are volumes of books on the ...
Views: 3541(25 votes) - ***Tiger Woods in the Age of Infidelity - by Submitted on Jan 19, 2010 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. As you know, infidelity stories were at an all-time high in the media this year—from former Senator John Edwards and South Carolina Governor Terry Sanford to Late Night host David Letterman and Golfer Tiger Woods. It’s enough to make many people ...
Views: 3537(36 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: 3531(38 votes) - ***What Makes Love And Relationships Last? - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2007 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzWhat Makes Love and Relationships Last? 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 have been saying for years and our 25 years of ...
Views: 3521(30 votes) - ***How to Fight Fair in a Marriage - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We are often asked this question – “Is arguing healthy for a marriage?” The simple answer is, “Yes!” When a husband and wife argue, they are engaging in a perfectly normal and expected part of what it means to be married. In fact, disagreement ...
Views: 3474(20 votes) - ***In Building Relationships the Simple Things Matter - by Submitted on Oct 18, 2012 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Thirty years of research on successful love and marriage has taught us many things, but first and foremost – no love has blossomed or been sustained without doing the “simple things.” Big things don’t matter until your relationship has mastered the ...
Views: 3461(14 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: 3453(37 votes) - ***Imagine Life Without Someone To Share It With - by Submitted on Oct 18, 2012 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Okay, we are madly in love after all these years! We have been married for nearly 46 years and we cannot imagine life without each other. We are each other’s constant companions and wouldn’t want it any other way! But we must admit, we often ...
Views: 3446(18 votes) - ***Should the rules of marriage be re-written? - by Submitted on Jul 29, 2011 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. There are times when we just want to retire to a remote island in the South Pacific! Why, you ask? Simple, really. As marriage researchers for nearly three decades, we have learned a lot about what makes marriage and relationships work. And ...
Views: 3434(23 votes) - ***Helping Your Mom and Your Marriage – Finding a Balance - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2009 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We owe our moms a lot. While we are lucky that we get to have them around, we have to find a balance between helping our mom and nurturing our own marriage. Over-committing time in a helping relationship at the expense of your marriage will, in the ...
Views: 3409(39 votes) - ***The All Star Game and Summer Love - by Submitted on Oct 06, 2009 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. There is something about the summer that encourages love. Maybe it’s the bright summer sun. It could be the warm summer breeze. Maybe it’s the refreshing summer water! Perhaps, it is the summer vacation. And isn’t the All Star Game played in the ...
Views: 3407(36 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: 3404(25 votes) - ***Penguins Know A Lot About Love - by Submitted on Feb 17, 2013 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We just returned from the trip of our lifetime together – all 47 years of it. We spent ten days on the continent of Antarctica. Oh, my, what a wonderful trip it was! As human beings, we will never be the same! For us, it was the 7th and final ...
Views: 3401(12 votes) - ***Anonymity Versus the Truth about Marriage - by Submitted on Jan 12, 2011 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Often we wonder, silently and out-loud – why have so many good folks fallen prey to the lies and distortions about marriage in the USA promulgated by so many uninformed people or people with some kind of political agenda? Many times, they have an ...
Views: 3385(15 votes) - ***The Risks of On-Line Dating - by Submitted on Mar 25, 2011 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. The on-line scams are numerous and recurring. Most of them cost you money. And worse! Just today, someone co-opted a friend of ours by using a fake email address similar to his and sending it to a zillion people asking them to wire him money. ...
Views: 3376(44 votes) - ***A Symphony Of Love And Marriage - by Submitted on Apr 24, 2009 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Tonight, we heard the sounds of love! Over the years we have seen love, felt love, heard about love, observed love, and been in love. But tonight, we heard the sounds of love! We heard love tonight through the magnificent sounds of the St. Louis ...
Views: 3375(32 votes) - ***Love Someone Today - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Dear Friends: Tomorrow, we celebrate our 45th Wedding Anniversary! We got married at the Lutheran Church of the Master on Santa Monica Boulevard in Santa Monica, California in 1966. It is amazing to realize that so many years have passed so ...
Views: 3362(24 votes) - ***Paris is the City of Love and Marriage - by Submitted on Oct 18, 2012 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We are delighted this week to be in the romantic capitol of the world—Paris, France! We are here on another leg of our endless search for great marriages around the world. First, a few facts about love and marriage in France that you might want ...
Views: 3310(24 votes) - ***The State of Our Unions: Is Marriage in Trouble? - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2011 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. In Middle America, marriage is in trouble! So say W. Bradford Wilcox of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and Elizabeth Marquardt of the Center for Marriage and Families Institute for American Values in New York ...
Views: 3296(14 votes) - ***Marriage Decline - Blame the Legal System - by Submitted on Oct 18, 2012 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Two recent and very powerful studies about the state of marriage in America offer irrefutable proof that marriage in America is in decline. A study by the Pew Charitable Trust, and another entitled the National Marriage Project at the University ...
Views: 3293(17 votes) - ***Marriage and the Pain of Abuse - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2011 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. While we normally write positive stories about successful marriage, a recent interview caused us to alter course, albeit, temporarily. A few weeks ago we interviewed a woman who had recently gotten divorced. Her story was so emotional and ...
Views: 3274(11 votes) - ***Love is Alive and Well in Antarctica - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2010 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Every once in awhile you meet extraordinary people! We had that great pleasure recently in Long Beach, California. Our lives will never be the same! We looked in the faces of love and saw an extraordinary marriage! We have seen this look before, but ...
Views: 3265(24 votes) - ***Lessons of Love From Your Dog - by Submitted on Aug 18, 2009 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. You can learn a lot about love from a dog. Over the years, we have learned much about the essentials of a loving relationship by observing our dog, Jake. We are proud to tell you that Jake is truly a Wonder Dog. He is loving, caring, intuitive, ...
Views: 3262(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: 3248(43 votes) - ***The Marriage Ref is an Idea Gone Terribly Wrong - by Submitted on Mar 12, 2010 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzRemember the television show, “Seinfeld?” Like you, we laughed ourselves silly over the antics of the show. It was funny and full of uproarious one-liners. When Jerry Seinfeld decided to promote the idea of a new show called “The Marriage Ref,” he and everyone else surely imagined that it ...
Views: 3231(40 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: 3219(23 votes) - ***Learning About Love From Your Dog - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2011 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. You can learn a lot about love from a dog. Over the years, we have learned much about the essentials of a loving relationship by observing our dogs. We are proud to tell you that our Louie is truly a Wonder Dog. He is loving, caring, intuitive, ...
Views: 3216(21 votes) - ***Can Being Alone Enhance Your Marriage? - by Submitted on Oct 13, 2011 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We have witnessed time and time again marriages in which one or both partners failed to understand the importance of being alone, not only for themselves, but for their spouse as well. When we first introduce this concept to others, the reaction is ...
Views: 3191(12 votes) - ***Why Beautiful Women Do Not Marry Less Attractive Men - by Submitted on Apr 17, 2008 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy 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 and your local ...
Views: 3179(26 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: 3177(33 votes) - ***Trust is the Foundation of Love - by Submitted on Oct 18, 2012 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. In our interviews over the past 30 years with couples that had a successful marriage we are always struck by their undying trust in each other. They literally trust each other with their lives, their well-being, and their sacred honor. The words ...
Views: 3158(17 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: 3128(22 votes) - ***How to Know if Your Marriage is in Trouble - by Submitted on Oct 18, 2012 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. In our thousands of interviews around the world over the past three decades, we have discovered many truths. Among these are the warning signs of a failing marriage and relationship. The telltale signs of a relationship going down the tubes are ...
Views: 3105(22 votes) - ***Tango Buenos Aires: The Look Of Love! - by Submitted on Nov 24, 2007 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzTango Buenos Aires: The Look of Love! By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz "the marriage doctors"www.GoldenAnniversaries.com Authors of the Book Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage available at Amazon.com This past Saturday we saw a ...
Views: 3089(18 votes) - ***Terrific Marriage Advice from Madonna - by Submitted on Oct 18, 2012 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. WENN News reported that Madonna gave one piece of advice to the couple who got engaged during her recent Amsterdam concert. Madonna’s advice was, “ Never go to bed angry.” She just gave the couple the best advice possible. This is the same advice ...
Views: 3055(21 votes) - ***Do Great Marriages have a Cinderella Life? - by Submitted on Oct 04, 2011 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We have constantly and relentlessly pursued this question in our interviews around the world – “Do the great marriages have a Cinderella life?” And the answer is – drum roll please! – NO! Too often, people assume that those who have the most ...
Views: 3029(12 votes) - ***Can Marriage Thrive on the Seventh Continent – Antarctica? - by Submitted on Oct 18, 2012 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Every once in awhile you meet extraordinary people! We had that great pleasure recently in Long Beach, California. Our lives will never be the same! We looked in the faces of love and saw an extraordinary marriage! We have seen this look before, ...
Views: 3012(23 votes) - ***Love is Best Not Rushed - by Submitted on Oct 18, 2012 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. A few days ago we ran across a marvelous quote by Jonathan Carroll, author of Outside the Dog Museum. It goes like this: “You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later ...
Views: 3004(16 votes) - ***7 Critical Issues To Discuss Before Marriage - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2013 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. While we have learned many lessons about great marriages from the thousands of interviews with successfully married couples around the world, we have concluded that what you do in the early stages of your relationship will go a long way towards ...
Views: 2999(46 votes) - ***Married or Not: Growing Old by Yourself Can be Lonely - by Submitted on Nov 29, 2012 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. “Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.” (Tommy, age 6) Our recent marriage interviews in Southern California brought our attention again to the two undeniable truths of ...
Views: 2960(19 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: 2938(27 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: 2929(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: 2927(24 votes) - ***Happily Ever After: It Can Happen To You! - by Submitted on Dec 03, 2007 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzHappily Ever After: It Can Happen To You! By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth Schmitz "the marriage doctors"www.GoldenAnniversaries.com Authors of the Book Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage available at Amazon.com We saw an enchanting movie ...
Views: 2909(30 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: 2865(20 votes) - ***The Enormous Economic Advantages of Marriage - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2012 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We have found in our 30+ years of research on successful marriage around the world that being married has huge economic advantages. Doubters have challenged us to “prove it!” The latest proof is in the just released special report by the Heritage ...
Views: 2759(21 votes) - ***Is Marriage In Trouble in Middle America? - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2011 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. In Middle America, marriage is in trouble! So say W. Bradford Wilcox of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and Elizabeth Marquardt of the Center for Marriage and Families Institute for American Values in New York ...
Views: 2755(15 votes) - ***Morally Indefensible Notions About Marriage - by Submitted on Oct 18, 2012 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We have never heard anything as outrageous as the views espoused in a book entitled, A Gift for Muslim Couple, by Maulavi Ashraf Ali Thanvi. Us being sick to our collective stomachs is a gross understatement of the outrage we feel about the garbage ...
Views: 2733(18 votes) - ***Make Love Your New Year's Resolution - by Submitted on Dec 30, 2007 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth Schmitz"the marriage doctors"www.GoldenAnniversaries.com Authors of the Book Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage available at Amazon.com This is the time of the year when so many of us make promises to ourselves and others that we hardly ever keep! These so-called ...
Views: 2729(20 votes) - ***There's No Place Like Home For The Holidays - by Submitted on Dec 15, 2007 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzThere’s No Place Like Home For The Holidays By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth Schmitz "the marriage doctors"www.GoldenAnniversaries.com Authors of the Book Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage available at Amazon.com “Oh, there’s no place like ...
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