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About mwd27

Michele Weiner-Davis, MSW is an internationally renowned relationship expert, best-selling author, marriage therapist, and professional speaker who specializes in helping people change their lives and improve important relationships. Among the first in her field to courageously speak out about the pitfalls of unnecessary divorce, Michele has been active in spearheading the now popular movement urging couples to make their marriages work and keep their families together. She is the author of seven books including her best-selling books, DIVORCE BUSTING: A Step-by-Step Approach to Making Your Marriage Loving Again, and THE SEX-STARVED MARRIAGE: A Couple's Guide to Boosting Their Marriage Libido. Michele's work has been featured in major newspapers such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, and magazines such as Time, Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, Essence, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Woman's Day, Men's Health, New Woman, and McCall's. Michele is a marriage expert on Redbook's advisory board, ClubMom.com and iVillage.com. She has made countless media appearances on shows such as Oprah, 48 Hours, 20/20, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, CBS Evening News, CNN, and Bill O'Reilly. Michele's Keeping Love Alive program aired on PBS stations nationwide. She recently completed a reality based show for the BBC about helping couples save their marriages. Michele maintains that her true expertise in helping couples have great relationships is derived from first-hand experience. She and her husband have been married for more than thirty years.

No Stone Unturned

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How Long Does it Take to Save or Improve Your Marriage?

While it is true that some people do experience immediate changes in their relationships, it’s also true that, in most marriages, change takes much longer.  How much longer? It depends on many factors: the severity of the problems, personalities of … Continue reading

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How to Make Your Spouse Want to Change

You can trigger positive change by behaving positively toward your spouse.  What do you need to do that will make your spouse feel more loving toward you and, therefore, want to go out of his/her way to please you? If … Continue reading

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What To Do After Changing Your Approach?

Before approaching your spouse with one of the many fight stoppers (all separate links) we’ve equipped you with, you will have a picture in your mind’s eye of the kind of reaction to be expecting from him/her.  If your spouse … Continue reading

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How Long Does it Take to Recover From An Affair? [Video]

Today’s video topic is “How Long Does it Take to Recover From An Affair?” In my practice, couples come to me all the time, frustrated that they haven’t yet gotten past their spouse’s act of infidelity, even if the incident … Continue reading

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A Powerful Approach to Stopping Fights: Do a 180

We’ve covered many different approaches to doing something different when confronted with challenges in your marriage.  You’ve learned how to act as if, you’ve learned that it’s easier done than said, that the medium is in the message, and you’ve … Continue reading

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How to Save Your Marriage During an Affair

A question I receive all the time is, “how can I save my marriage after my spouse has found out about my affair?” First, it’s important for people to understand that infidelity doesn’t have to be a marriage deal breaker.  … Continue reading

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Do Nothing: A Novel Approach to Solving Marriage Problems

Some people are fix-it addicts.  Fixing their marriages becomes the main focus of their lives.  The problem with this is that relationships are like see-saws: the more one person does of something, the less the other one will do.  If … Continue reading

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What is the Average Amount of Sex in Marriage? [Video]

One question I’m asked as much as any other is: “what is the average amount of sex in marriage“  Clearly, the question is asked not with the intent of gathering facts for the sake of fact gathering.  Either the lower … Continue reading

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10 Marriage New Year’s Resolutions for 2011

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How To Tell Your Spouse About Your Affair [video]

If you have had an affair and you decide to tell your spouse about it or your spouse has already discovered some of the facts, you will want to know how to share the information in the least hurtful way. … Continue reading

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How to Approach Your Spouse: Act As If

I’ve discussed a lot of different methods recently suggesting how to approach your spouse.  Whether you try doing something different, altering the medium of your message, or rely on actions instead of words, sometimes nothing is quite as effective as … Continue reading

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How to Recover from Infidelity or An Affair

A very common question in my practice is “what’s the proper way to deal with an affair?” How much time should be dedicated to talking about the infidelity? The following video provides one method toward recovering from an affair. Although … Continue reading

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Marriage Advice: Easier Done Than Said

Easier Done Than Said A variation of the “Medium is in the Message” technique, this intervention suggests that you stop using words entirely to get your messages across.  No talking on the phone, no letter writing, no e-mails, you just … Continue reading

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Is Marriage Obsolete? Michele Weiner-Davis Weighs in.

With Time Magazine’s most recent issue, Who Needs Marriage?, there has been a lot of talk in the media about if marriage is becoming obsolete.  I offer my two cents below. Michele Weiner Davis is the creator of the Divorce Busting … Continue reading

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