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For your couples to attain the elusive goal of a successful marriage, the first step iss to help them define in detail what that means to each of them.

We Save You Time
Our book will help your couples work on their own to merge their individual expectations of marriage into shared goals and decide how to achieve them. You're efficiency will be maximized by assisting in those areas where they cannot agree.

We Help With Results.
In a few hours, your couples will address often overlooked day-to-day issues that can make or break a marriage and they will minimize conflict in their relationship.

We Help With Money
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From: Charlie Michaels, co-Author of “Mastering Marriage”

Dear Member Of The Clergy,

My husband, Mike Brown, and I are ordinary people with an extraordinary gift for you to share with couples you counsel: the clues to having a GREAT marriage. We leave serious problems to you but for couples in a good relationship especially those who are engaged or newlywed or couples who are just getting by, our book will help you produce the result you want - a lifelong marriage filled with happiness.

How would you utilize our book with your couples?
We propose a two prong approach.

You get the hard part.
The first part is yours because it is best discussed with the couple face to face by someone they know and have confidence in. Your challenge is to change their attitude about preparing for marriage. I'm sure you recognize how difficult that can be and are hard at work on the problem.

No couple gets a second chance to start their marriage off right.

We’re all familiar with young couples getting married for the first time. They are too preoccupied thinking about their special day, where they will live and how they will merge their households, to devote time to preparing for their lifetime together.

They are happy and in love but a little insecure and naïve. Not a combination conducive to introspection or discussing their relationship with each other.

Help them overcome their insecurity which makes them afraid to do anything which might alter their relationship in any way. How sad that this very inaction reduces their chance for success.

Their inexperience has them believing their marriage can run smoothly by addressing problems and discussing issue as they arise, that love alone will get them through anything. Big mistake.

Please convince them this is the way most couples
enter marriage and why most don’t succeed.

Point out that the 50% of people who end up divorced were happy and in love on their wedding days also and felt that same way? That they would be joyful exceptions to the statistics.

As sad as divorce are the couples that remain unhappily married, sharing an address but not a life. A disheartening state of affairs indeed. They too started out with this same mistaken belief.

Most of the disappointments we suffer in our lives are not because the actual situation is so terrible but stem from the disillusionment that sets in when the reality differs from our expectations. This is true in marriage also.

Almost all of us have unrealistic impressions of marriage that developed over our lifetimes based on movies, TV, magazines and newspapers. In addition, not many people have given any real thought to what they personally expect and want from married life. They just get married.

We believe the major cause of the early differences that can grow into marriage- ending problems is that people did not properly prepare for being married. This isn’t because they didn’t care, because surely they did, or because they were so busy, which they probably were.

The truth is they simply didn’t know what to do.

Let’s Persuade them that their relationship will be even better if they educate themselves on to how to prepare for and strengthen their marriage. Click Here For Professional Reviews

Encourage them to assume responsibility
for the success of their marriage by taking action.

We Provide the Action
As you read our book, you will see our suggestions are straight-forward, easy to implement and powerful. There are personal stories and cartoons to illustrate points. Just because it’s a serious topic doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be fun to read.

We help make your time more efficient.

If you counsel with couples, especially engaged and newlyweds, our book reduces the one-on-one time required to get their marriage off to a great start.

The couple can read and follow the book on their own, limiting your time to areas where they may have a problem resolving a particular issue. This is the most efficient use of your time and the most helpful to them. Even if this is one of the favorite parts of your job, we are sure somebody can benefit from your extra time, perhaps your own family, if you are married!

It is also appropriate as the course book in a marriage class and will minimize the one-on-one counseling needed while assuring they have a rock solid marriage.

We help make your results more effective.

In just a few hours, your couples will understand more about how to be happily married than most couples ever know.

A few of the many secrets they’ll uncover in Mastering Marriage:

• Step-by-step how to prepare their Marriage Pact^TM,, the most important document next to their license and the key to achieving marital success.



• What we all do when we date that causes disappointment as soon as we wed and what they can do to correct it.



• How to strengthen their commitment every day with three words more powerful than "I love you" and end any disagreement....almost before it begins!



• To bend the Golden Rule so their spouse will be always be happy to be married to them.



• Their life together will run more smoothly if they see through the “Mirage of Marriage” and don't put unrealistic demands on each other.



• Mom's "magic words" are still magic in marriage.



• They will discover that the harder they work to be the perfect spouse the more they can irritate their partner. Ouch!



• How to increase their happiness by choosing their wants, needs and preferences.



• The most important decisions to make about sex and money, resolving two of the biggest areas of conflict in marriage.



• The simplest and most effective communication technique ever and the key to their day-to-day happiness, in good times and bad.



• Let's prove “Happily Married” is not an oxymoron! It’s easy, fun and so wonderful!

How do you know our book is as good as we say?
We felt that if you could preview our book you would readily see its value, so we invite you to download and read the entire book by clicking on this link.

-Preview Mastering Marriage- Note: To download our book, you will need to proceed and check out as though this were a purchase but you will see the price is $0.00. No Credit Card Information is required. In order to read the book, you must have Acrobat Reader on your computer. If you do not, click on "Download Acrobat Reader" on the aqua navigation bar on the right side of this page to download it free, compliments of Adobe Systems Inc.

We hope, after previewing it, you feel it would be beneficial when you counsel couples. At readers' requests, we developed a Playbook which lists all the questions from the hardcover book with room to write in their answers. Where possible questions have been put in "multiple choice" or "fill-in-the-blank" formats to simplify the process and save time.

We also offer a softcover Combined Edition which has the full text of Mastering Marriage with the convenience of the Playbook. The Combined Edition book works especially well for classes because each person has his own copy of the book and the convenience of one place to write in answers which simplifies the process and keeps things organized.

We help your money go farther.

We’ve shown how we can save you time by having your couples read our book and implement our methods but we also said we would help with the money.

We offer a significant discount to religious organizations.

We offer religious organizations a significant discount of up to 40% off, depending on quantity. Your minimum discount is 30% off, even on an order of one!

If a couple is tight for money, you can pass along the lower price. For those who can afford the retail price, it is a painless contribution since that is the same price they would pay on this site or in a bookstore.

Based on the maximum discount, if you had a class of 10 couples and sell our Combination Edition at the list price, your organization would earn $287.20 (less S&H). Click on this link to purchase (not to review).

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It is so important to us that all your couples have access to our information that, if any of those you advise honestly cannot afford the $19.95 price, we will allow them to read the entire book on line for free.

Have them log on to www.MasteringMarriage.com, then click on the “Engaged” button on the home page of this website. This will take them to our letter. At the end, they will find the following link which allows them to read our book at NO cost. Even if they don't have a computer, many libraries have free computer access they can use.

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We didn’t start out as likely candidates to be writing a book on this topic. My dating history ran from comical to sad to really pathetic. At my high school graduation dinner, my classmates named me “the person most likely to have her love life made into a soap opera.” And that was before things got bad!

Ultimately, I was angry, hurt and both hated men and needed their approval. I lacked positive role models and had no apparent relationship skills. I am bossy, demanding, strong willed, impatient, intolerant of nonsense and a perfectionist. I also have many positive traits, I’m sure.

Mike went to an all boys’ high school and admits to being backwards and awkward with women. He has an explosive temper, is bossy, argumentative, strong willed, work obsessed, impatient, intolerant of nonsense and a perfectionist His need to excel at work caused him to put in long hours at the office and destroyed his first marriage even though, by his own admission, he had a good wife.

Back then, we were emotionally challenged. Mike’s divorce devastated him and I, though never married, had perfected the art of selecting unsuitable partners.

Yet we have been happier than we thought possible for 25 years and, based on our personalities, this is no small feat. The above is nothing, however, compared to what we have persevered through over the years.

A failed business, near bankruptcy, living out of our car for a year, a twelve year remodeling project, my eight year bout with clinical depression and giving my mother hospice care for the last six months of her life are the short list.

Despite facing these and other obstacles that could have destroyed a weaker marriage, we have never felt a threat to our relationship.

We will help you make your couples’ marriages impervious to whatever life throws at them and they will have fun doing it!

The goals of our book, Mastering Marriage, are the same as yours for your couples: that their love and respect grows stronger every year; that they stay happily married for life; and, that their children grow up blessed with the security and joy that comes from a loving, two parent home.

Because twenty five years ago we were clueless about marriage, we call our strategies “clues”. There are twenty of them and every one is well worth the time invested. Our recommitment ritual, only takes one second a day!

We believe your couples should read our book and follow our methods because we are happily married as a result of living them daily for 25 years through “life lessons” that would have ended many marriages; because Mike’s done it wrong before and, together, we’ve done it right; because we learned from others and have spent a lot of effort developing an effective way to strengthen a marriage.

Our methods are not rocket science. They are simple, straight forward and can be implemented immediately.

A little effort today will help them pre-empt those circumstances which develop into serious problems that always diminish and often destroy a marriage. It seems obvious that this is approach is far better than putting a lot of effort later into overcoming the situation after one of them is “right” and the other “wrong”.

With a little effort, their marriage can be everything they hope for and you want for them. There are pitfalls they can avoid and actions they can take that will virtually assure their success.

Some of our ideas are so intuitive they will implement them without thinking. Others require conscious thought, and a few take continued effort to be effective.

Our suggestions will make their life together better; the more of them they incorporate into their daily life, the happier they will be. If they follow them all they will be happier than they can imagine.

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We appreciate your reading our proposal and hope we can team up. We share a common mission: to strengthen families by helping couples grow happier and more in love each year.

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Thank you for visiting our website and best wishes for your success. Please help us spread the word to others and have them visit us also. We love company!

Sincerely,
Charlie Michaels

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