Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage
January 25, 2010 by
Filed under Wedding Gifts Tips
Product DescriptionAs a candid glimpse into the lives of successfully married couples, this book provides a uniquely positive perspective on what makes marriages survive and thrive. What you learn from this wonderfully unique and powerful book is that you can save, improve or enhance your marriage if you listen to the advice of couples with 15,000 years of collective wisdom. Using poignant, real life stories to uncover the Seven Secrets for Successful Marriage, this book captur. . . More >>
Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage
As a leadership coach for executive women, I help my clients deal with marital stress almost as a matter of course. Communications and even basic courtesy can go out the window when partners feel threatened and/or overwhelmed at work and at home.
It is my pleasure to recommend this book, from two people who clearly practice what they preach and exemplify a relationship that is truly “golden”. With mesmerizing tale-telling skills the Schmitz’s take you through such an engaging wonderland of couples who have survived and thrived through stunning marital blows, you’ll find it difficult to put the book down. Therapists, take notice. You need this book in your waiting room and on your recommended reading list. Ditto for anyone male or female whose relationship is in trouble. Married or not, Golden Anniversaries will teach you the skills you need to live long and happily with yourself, and with your partner.
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Rating: 5 / 5
We had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Charley and Liz for their book, Golden Anniversaries. It was our honor to share with them the ingredients of our own marital success based upon our 38-year marriage. As two very actively engaged professionals over the course of our marriage, we know that our own success is based upon an “accumulation of the little things” as Charley and Liz so often remind us. Mastering them was a prerequisite to our own marital happiness. We highly recommend their important book.
Dr. Thomas F. George, Chancellor, University of Missouri-St. Louis and Dr. Barbara Harbach, Professor of Music, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Review published with permission of Dr. George and Dr. Harbach
Rating: 5 / 5
Drs. Charles and Liz Schmitz have taken an entirely new perspective in understanding successful marriages. Rather than employing the approach most researchers use (studying failed relationships and trying to figure out what went wrong), Charles and Liz studied successful marriages (ones lasting at least 30 years) and what went right. Their research on over 15,000 years of successful marriages across cultures and continents provides a refreshing and uplifting perspective into one of society’s most valuable institutions. Their book provides a framework for lifelong marital happiness. It is written in a very easy to read style that has cute (and true) stories that will make you laugh and also bring a tear to your eye. This is the best book ever written on how to have a successful, happy and lifelong marriage. It should be given to every couple as a wedding present and made required reading before they take their vows.
Rating: 5 / 5