Doctors

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With 26 years of research experience on successful marriage and their own 42-year marriage, Drs. Charles and Elizabeth Schmitz know what makes relationships and marriage work. As award winning authors, the Doctors reveal the truths about love and marriage in their "Best Relationship book of 2008" INDIE Book Awards Gold Medal Winner, Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage.

During their distinguished careers the Doctors have received some 65 local, state, and national awards; published nearly 350 books, articles and manuscripts; delivered over 1000 speeches, workshops and public presentations; traveled throughout the world; and appeared on radio and television and in the print media. Dr. Charles Schmitz is Dean and Professor of Counseling and Family Therapy at the University of Missouri in St. Louis and Dr. Elizabeth Schmitz is President of Successful Marriage Reflections, LLC.(TM)


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      The Doctors gathered more than 15,000 years of collective wisdom from happily and successfully married couples in the USAUnited States — people of different faiths, ages and ethnicities, including Caucasians, African- Americans, Latinos, and Asian-Americans married in the Judeo-Christian tradition. In addition, they interviewed successfully married couples in China, France, Great Britain, Argentina, Chile, Taiwan, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and Canada. After 26 years and hundreds of interviews with successfully married couples, as well as their own successful 42 years of marriage, they discovered seven pervasive characteristics present in all successful marriages.

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      Interviewing couples about love, marriage and relationships
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