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How to Save Your Marriage or Relationship
in 27 Days without “Working on It” or “Talking”
Create a Love you can TRUST, a love you KNOW
in your heart will last FOREVER in only 27 days.
Dr. Bob Huizenga here
I’ve tied together my research and clinical experience as a
Marriage and Family Therapist since 1981, outlined step by step what
specifically works for couples, and present to you a program to
address your marital concerns. Here are cutting edge, effective and
practical marriage building
strategies from a seasoned Marriage and Family Therapist that will:
* Take the effort and fear out of marriage building
* Relieve the burden of believing you must make it happen
* Create emotional connection that fills your life with joy and
delight that won’t end
* Reclaim the freedom, excitement and passion of being with each
other.
I want you to know that your course helped me far more than any
of the others because it was straight forward, real and doable. I've
done the 27 days and it works. I am constantly going back to refresh
myself with things to think about. It's a great resource to see just
how far I've come.
PEGGY GUICHU
If you are in a downward spiral your marriage is headed for a crash
A marriage is either in an upward spiral, building on your love,
trust and understanding of one another or it’s headed in a downward
spiral. There’s no in between. (The “in between” would be a
symptom of the downward spiral.)
Reflect on this for a minute: Are your times of distress, unhappiness
and pain in your relationship:
* More frequent?
* More emotionally distressing and intense?
* Do find yourself cycling back into the same old
arguments/distance/pain and feel there is no way out?
Often you wait too long. You keep going over the same painful
distressful territory, time and time again. Eventually you give up.
You shift your focus to your work, your children, your hobbies or
something else.
Of course you don’t do this intentionally. It’s more like the
proverbial frog in the water who doesn’t feel the heat rising.
And, then one day, all hell breaks loose.
You discover your spouse is having an affair. Your spouse raises the
“D” word. The business fails and you blame rather than support. A
family crisis rears its head and the two of you can barely manage.
Here’s a fact: Almost all couples who sat down in my office for
help waited too long. The pain was incessant. The distance icing. The
anger out of control. The cycle so ingrained that each struggled to
breath around each other.
They had crashed. And, believe me, most were not pretty pictures.
I don’t want you to wait too long! I don’t want you to crash!
You can prevent your marriage from spiraling down and crashing and
it’s easier, less expensive, less time-consuming and less fearful
than you think
Ok, here’s the big question: If a relationship of deep emotional
investment is so important and you long so desperately for intimacy,
understanding and love, why does your marriage spiral downward? (My
experience and some studies indicate that 9 out of 10 are unhappy in
their marriage.)
* What makes it so difficult for you to avoid the crash and burn?
* Why are so many people miserable in their marriage?
* Why do 1 out of 2 couples get a divorce and have done so in the
USA for decades?
* Why is the younger generation reluctant to “tie the knot?”
I’ve worked intensively with 20 or so distressed couples a week as
a therapist since 1981. I’ve researched, studied and was fully
licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist.
I’m at a point in life to be reflective, constructively critical at
times, and I want you to offer you a new way.
I don’t want to get too technical. But I need to explain myself
just a little. You are bombarded by the Need to Emotionally Fuse and
It’s Killing Your Marriage
The concept of Emotional Fusion goes back 40 years or more and has
been written about on numerous occasions in the Marital Therapy Field.
Emotional Fusion means two in a relationship are emotionally locked.
Each expects the other to make him/her feel better, to meet needs and
make life “complete.” Each focuses on the other as the savior or
the one responsible.
The cartoon on the right gives a flavor of emotional fusion.
Distance, coolness, reactivity, apathy, consistent conflict,
withdrawal and even civil politeness are symptoms of Emotional Fusion.
Emotional Fusion results in:
* Feeling a pressure to perform, please, accommodate or react
against.
* Short term solutions (let’s have a romantic weekend at a bed and
breakfast! Or, go to a marriage seminar.)
* Phoniness, game playing and mind reading
* The “Spirit” (passion) of each, and the marriage, is
squelched.
I don’t want you to be emotionally fused. Instead I want you to be
Emotionally Engaged.
There is a HUGE difference.
Most of the world around you clamors to be fused. You hear: “You
need to get closer! You must work on the relationship. You must talk
it out. You need to recapture the romance. You need marriage
counseling. You must meet your spouse’s needs. You must become more
attractive. You must not take him/her for granted. Etc.”
And so we spend billions of dollars and countless hours on these very
strategies. And yet, the divorce rate hovers at 50%, 9 out of 10
report being unhappy in their marriage and your marriage continues to
downward spiral, regardless of your good intentions.
Emotional fusion is seductive. Moving closer, talking it out, getting
at feelings, being romantic, meeting the other’s needs seems the
logical route, does it not?
If so, why do these strategies, if they work, seem to only alleviate
temporarily the pain? Six months down the road, here it comes again:
that familiar downward spiral.
These traditional strategies, espoused by many around you, focus on
Emotional Fusion, NOT Emotional Engagement.
You need more. You need something that digs beneath the surface.
And, that something is easier, less costly and less fearful than you
might imagine.
27 days to move from Emotional Fusion to Emotional Engagement
In 27 days you can reverse the downward spiral, feel the utter relief
of the new direction, begin to value your spouse in ways you never
thought possible and feel that warmth return when you stand next to
your spouse.
You can begin to emotionally ENGAGE your spouse.
“Saving Your Marriage with “Working on it” or “Talking” is
a culmination of my life’s study, research and clinical experience
with literally thousands of couples.
I give you a visual step by step plan with numerous checklists,
charts and exercises throughout the 247 pages.
“Save Your Marriage Without ‘Working on it’ or ‘Talking’”
is intentionally designed to speak powerfully to BOTH MEN AND WOMEN,
or to those who are pragmatic, tough-minded and leery of
“touchy-feely” material.
Here’s a fact: Of the hundreds of couples I’ve counseled face to
face since 1981 ALWAYS, and I mean ALWAYS, one spouse (usually the
woman) wants to “work on” the marriage more than the other
(usually the male.)
You pull, your spouse pushes away. This is guaranteed.
My material was designed with this in mind.
It defies Emotional Fusion.
It respects and values the reluctant spouse.
Your spouse does not want your marriage as badly as you. That is a
given.
Learning new tricks, phrases, gimmicks, behavioral changes to MAKE
your spouse “work on” the marriage will be futile. You are just
driving the important issues underground and in the long run, you will
fail…and your marriage will fail!
Understand? Get this? This is important.
Both genders (or types) must be honored and served. This is VITAL if
your marriage or relationship is to be healthy, give joy, passion and
excitement for the future.
Here’s the 27 Day Chart as outlined in “Save Your Marriage
Without “Working on it” or “Talking:”
You Need a Solid Base to Create a Solid Marriage or Relationship
Notice that the chart asks you to spend the first two weeks with the
material ALONE.
If your spouse wants to participate, give a copy of “Save Your
Marriage Without “Working on it” or “Talking” to your spouse
and s/he can go through the material also alone.
If you think the two of you can go through the material together, be
very careful. I suggest you jump to Module #7 and identify the type of
marriage you have. Go through the material together ONLY if you have a
GREEN Marriage. (Only about 10% of couples have a GREEN Marriage.)
If you have a RED Marriage, please do NOT attempt to engage your
spouse.
If Yellow, the push-pull game is probably operative. You must first
fully address and learn about that issue alone. If not, your
relationship will continue to cycle downward.
Taking two full weeks alone is very intentional. You must unlearn a
great deal and examine crucial questions; in other words, you and
perhaps your spouse must establish your foundation for EFFECTIVE
Engagement to occur.
Usually your spouse will join with you after the second week. If your
spouse is reluctant, I will help you craft an invitation to engage
that holds the best chance of eliciting participation of your spouse.
Areas You MUST Address to Change the Spiral of Your Marriage
The first two weeks of the program are critical in clearing your mind
and heart of marital illusions.
You must grasp the reality of what demands to create a successful
marriage.
8 Critical Keys to Saving Your Marriage
KEY #1: You must unlearn much of what you have learned and absorbed
about marriage, love and relationships.
KEY #2: You Must Feel Safe with Your Spouse and her/him with You
KEY #3: You Must Have Something to Give
KEY #4: You Must Speak Your “Voice”
KEY #5: You Must Make Distinctions
KEY #6: You Must Make Shifts
KEY #7: You Must be able to Meta-Comment
KEY #8: You must have a process that keeps you focused
You will spend significant time going over exercises and reading
about the shifts needed. I give guidance and fill in some of the
blanks for you. Here’s a sample chart to guide you:
Learn How to Keep Focused
You know how easily you become distracted in a marriage. Children,
work, friends, errands, projects all clamor for your time and energy
and you lose that engagement with your spouse.
Module #3 introduces you to the Ground Hog Process, a simple but
effective device to keep you on target.
Here’s a threatening question to many: CAN Your Marriage be Saved?
Are you one who out of your fear and power of their personal need
system try to fit a square peg into a round hole.
Do you sometimes sense that you are banging your head against a dead
marital wall, and yet can’t stop because you fear being alone or at
some level “need” the marriage.”
You will examine issues such as:
* Chemistry
* Transition times in marriage
* Maladaptive coping patterns
* The Capacity to Emotionally Engage
* The decision to leave
* And Infidelity
And, I leave you with two suggestions that will help you move
forward.
The Top 10 Ideas Almost Everyone has about Saving a Marriage or Being
Married that is Downright DANGEROUS to your Marital Health and
Well-being
Here’s where you knock down the illusions, myths and half
‘truths’ you absorbed over the years about love and marriage.
Once you make the mental shifts in these 10 ideas or beliefs, you
will have a greater capacity to Emotionally Engage your spouse and
less need to Emotionally Fuse and continue the downward spiral.
* There Must Be Something Wrong With Me, My Spouse or the Marriage
If We Struggle
* Something “Out There” Will Make Our Marriage Better
* Marriage is the End of My Fun and Freedom
* All Marriages are alike.
* The concepts of “working on” the marriage, “talking” and
“romance”
* And more…
What Kind of Marriage do you have? Red, Yellow or Green? Not
all marriages are equal. Using one skill set or strategy to fit all
marriages leaves you little room for success in building the trust and
love.
I provide you with a 60 question check list that determines your type
of marriage (Red, Yellow or Green.)
You probably have a Yellow Marriage
I would guess that 75% of those I work with have a Yellow Marriage.
Yellow marriages often emerge out of the frustration of Emotional
Fusion. They are the by-product Emotional Fusion turning to
frustration and emptiness.
Rightly so, you will receive a great deal of information on the
Yellow Marriage.
You will cover such vital topics as:
* The Underlying Frustration of the Yellow Marriage
* The Yellow Dance
* The Danger of Talking
* Are You Ready to Engage Your Spouse?
* How to Manage Your Pursuing?
* Crafting an Invitation for Engagement
* How to Manage the Distancing?
* Overcoming Your Fear of Engagement
* Stating Powerfully What’s on your Mind
* Rules of Engagement
10% Have a Green Marriage
Engaging each other is not a problem for the Green Marriage. In
reality, each spouse looks forward to engaging the other, building the
marriage, creating and designing the type of marriage and life each
desire.
I guess that only 10% of the population, at most, has a Green
Marriage.
If you test at a Green Marriage, a wealth of in-depth materials are
provided to help you deepen and expand your love.
If you test at a Yellow or Red Marriage you will use the material to
more clearly form a vision of what is possible and what you would
ultimately like to experience in your relationship of deep emotional
engagement.
From Fusion to Engagement releases energy, often sexual
I’ve noticed this over and over again for a high percentage of the
couples I’ve worked with: once the fusion is broken and a couple
begins to experience engagement, a new world of passion and excitement
opens.
Some couples report that their sex life was never as powerful,
intense, pleasurable or passionate.
A new world opens!
Are you Serious about Saving Your Marriage?
Saving Your Marriage Without ‘Working on it’ or ‘Talking’ –
27 days to create a love you can trust” may not be for you.
Are you truly serious about a significant marital change? Is it time?
Are you willing to give in-depth thought to what you want and how to
make it happen? Are you determined? Is your longing for love strong?
If you are deadly serious about creating a revitalized marriage, get
a copy of “Saving Your Marriage Without ‘Working on it’ or
‘Talking’ – 27 days to create a love you can trust”
If you want gimmicks, marital games to play, tricks or strategies to
manipulate your spouse to fit your illusions, or a quick fix without
your investment you would be better off going elsewhere.
I ask for your focus for 27 days. I will direct your focus that will
touch the basics of creating a powerful, lasting love in which you as
a person experience the exponential explosion as well, of your
personal power.
Do you want to:
* Be intimate without losing your personal freedom
* Stop chasing
* Stop running away
* Lose your fear of being smothered
* Lose your fear of conflict
* Be powerfully heard
* Hear powerfully
* Be more personally productive and successful in other areas of
your life because of your emotional connection
* Speak your mind and no longer hide
* No longer work so hard at pleasing
* Have freedom from meeting his/her needs
* Feel extremely excited about each other (passion)
If so, get your copy of Save Your Marriage Without ‘Working on
it’ or ‘Talking’ – 27 days to create a love you can trust”
Changes and Shifts are Radical, Powerful and Lasting
The way you break down negative thoughts, opinions etc into small
bits and then suggest a shift to the positive has been invaluable for
me in making significant shifts that I know will save my marriage.
Having a voice and making distinctions are tremendously empowering
concepts to explore. I didn't even realize why I was so unhappy with
myself and my marriage. It was like two empty people tearing each
other apart.
I read this section twice, I really connected with the section
describing the process of making finer and finer distinctions, I want
this capacity in my life and how I relate to my partner and others. I
feel excited to keep moving through the material.
Ha- I skipped ahead the first day to find out what color my marriage
was. In the past week, it has moved from yellow to yellowish green. So
this stuff has really helped. (even though I now know that nothing
"out there" will be the solution.)
Great chapter- this really does make me feel more normal. I don't
know why I didn't realize that relationships suffer (but then can
grow) when one partner goes through a transition- or crisis. I
understood that people grow and evolve, but just assumed the
relationship would stay constant. Now I realize that relationships
need to change as well. I am looking forward to learning to relate in
a new way.
I realized that I really do need to work on identifying my needs and
wants, values etc. Until I do that I can't move to the next chapter.
And I REALLY wanted to feel normal in just 27 days! (Just kidding- I
know this is a process). I am anxious to begin engaging but don't
think I am ready yet.
Little $$ investment, time, energy and sacrifice
Many couples (and individuals) pay me $1,000s of dollars in my
private practice to save their marriage.
If you’ve done your research, or have been involved in marital
therapy you are aware, this is not out of line.
Seasoned effective therapists ask for $125 to $300 per hour. It adds
up; since the first four hours are usually spend establishing rapport.
Include also your time away from work, driving to and from the office
and the hassle of scheduling and you realize the huge investment
demanded.
Imagine the cost of a marriage seminar; hotel, meals, travel,
tuition, etc. I need not go further.
I don’t want to bore you with all the energy, time and resources
you have invested in the saving of your marriage. You know.
Why am I No Longer in Face-to Face Private Practice?
About 10 years ago I was exposed to the power of the internet.
Instead of reaching 20 couples per week, I could reach 100s PER DAY.
That was truly exciting for me. And, my readers and online
“clients” gave me feedback!
I was able to create new services and products that were practical,
that people truly wanted, that were filled with the wisdom I’ve
accumulated over my therapeutic years and were effective in the long
term.
(Face-to-face therapy is limiting: Feedback is not encouraged. The
focus is often tension reduction. And, insurance companies usually
dictate therapy (another story!)
You see, I’m at a point in life in which I need to contribute.
(That means I’ve been at this a while!) A part of me is compelled to
formulate all that I’ve learned and experienced as a professional
and present it to others. It’s a little edgy since it tends to step
outside of some culturally defined boxes. This I must do, to be fully
me and feel good about my legacy.
You get the best from me. And you get it at a bargain rate. And, you
get it conveniently. What more could you want??
All that’s left is for you to dig into the materials and… Stop
the Downward Spiral – Get your copy now
for only $69.00
100% Money Back Guarantee…
"Save Your Marriage Without "Working on it" or "Talking" comes with a
100% Money Back Guarantee. If at any time within the next 60 days you
find the material not helpful, I'll cheerfully refund your money, and
you can keep the book.
Yes, that's right. I will give you 100% your money back if your are
not satisfied with "Save Your Marriage Without 'Working on it' or
'Taking.'" I'm extremely confident that you will find the material
helpful if not life changing.
If you have questions contact me, Dr. Huizenga at
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