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, 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.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1175106138 Jennifer Ingram Hendrick
My thoughts exactly, Michele. Gah. Leave it to the media to TOTALLY blow things out of proportion. Though I am a little worried about the aftermath of how people will interpret those articles. But hey, I’m a bit of a worry-wart anyway.
Jcallen208
How do you train defensive spouses out of their reactionary tendencies and their tendency to look for and find fault instead of solutions? How do you keep from getting frustrated and angry when they do that?
