Marriage Builders

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Persevere Individual & Family Therapy
Banning Avenue

It will help you become aware of all that Marriage Builders® has to offer you. https://www.marriagebuilders.com/site-tour.htm is best known as author of the internationally best selling book, His Needs, Her Needs: Building An Affair-proof Marriage. Over three million copies have been purchased, and it is available in twenty-two foreign translations. Dr. Harley earned a Ph.D. degree in psychology f

rom the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1967 and has been a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Minnesota since 1975. For the first ten years after earning his degree, he taught psychology at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. During those years, he was also a frustrated part-time marriage counselor with little success in helping couples. In 1973 he discovered that he was not alone in his failure to save marriages -- almost everyone in the marital therapy profession were also failing. So he spent the next two years designing an entirely new approach (see How Dr. Harley Learned to Save Marriages). When his success rate skyrocketed in 1977, he resigned from his teaching position to counsel full-time. Over the next ten years his solo practice developed into the largest network of mental health clinics in Minnesota (thirty-two locations) with over one hundred psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and chemical dependency counselors working with him to provide a full range of mental health services. He became the exclusive provider of mental health and chemical dependency services in ten counties, and had offices in other counties as well. One of his responsibilities was to write support materials for the clinical program he directed. He created over one hundred questionnaires and wrote numerous articles that were given to clients as part of their therapy. Among the materials he wrote was His Needs, Her Needs, which was first published in 1986. Although it was written to be a support text for his marriage counseling program, within three years it had become a national best-seller and a basic reference for marriage counselors throughout the nation. By 1988 he found himself spending almost all of his time administering his clinics, and very little time doing what he enjoyed most -- improving his marital therapy program. So he began turning his clinics over to the counselors who worked with him, and the ownership of his last clinic was transferred in 1993. Since then, he has written 19 more books and hundreds of articles. Dr. Harley continues to write, speak, and lead seminars throughout the US and Canada. For information regarding booking arrangements for his weekend seminar, "How to Fall in Love and Stay in Love," click this link for more information. Harley also host a daily one-hour call-in show, Marriage Builders Radio. It can be heard on radio stations and on the Internet. They have been married for 52 years and live in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. They have two adult children, who are now working with them as marriage coaches, and four grandchildren.

08/27/2024

https://www.marriagebuilders.com/how-to-avoid-an-affair-1.htm

08/23/2024

This week's letter is from a woman who has had an affair, and is trying to end it. She wants to know precisely what she must do to restore her marriage, and wants assurance that it will work.

https://tinyurl.com/2p89n3az

08/22/2024

https://tinyurl.com/4c45yhv6

08/21/2024

Restoring the marital relationship after an affair.

https://tinyurl.com/yrpk87cu

08/16/2024

"My husband thinks because he cooked dinner last month that he should be excused from all other responsibilities. (I can't even get him to take out the trash without a fight!) All I want is a little help. I have tried asking him sweetly but he still calls me a nag. I am at the end of my rope! What do you suggest I do?"

https://www.marriagebuilders.com/domestic-responsibilities-part-1.htm

08/15/2024

Each daily program is heard from the top of the show and is available for 24 hours starting at 2:00 pm CT. Friday's program is available all weekend.

https://www.marriagebuilders.com/marriage-builders-radio.htm

08/09/2024

Escaping the jaws of infidelity: How to avoid an affair.

https://www.marriagebuilders.com/how-to-avoid-an-affair-1.htm

08/08/2024

What are Love Busters in marriage?

https://www.marriagebuilders.com/how-to-overcome-love-busters.htm

08/06/2024

https://www.marriagebuilders.com/recovery-after-an-affair.htm

07/31/2024

How do you resolve incompatibility in marriage?

https://www.marriagebuilders.com/survive-incompatibility-1.htm

07/31/2024

https://www.marriagebuilders.com/your-first-baby.htm

07/25/2024

https://www.marriagebuilders.com/how-do-you-know-if-your-spouse-is-in-love-with-you.htm

07/24/2024

How risky is a friendship of the opposite-s*x to your marriage?

https://www.marriagebuilders.com/the-risk-of-opposite-s*x-friendships-in-marriage.htm

07/19/2024

Meeting important emotional needs.

https://www.marriagebuilders.com/intimate-conversation.htm

07/16/2024

How do you escape the jaws of infidelity?

https://www.marriagebuilders.com/how-to-avoid-an-affair-1.htm

07/11/2024

https://www.marriagebuilders.com/unfaithful-wife-1.htm

07/10/2024

When coping with infidelity, can you overcome resentment?

https://www.marriagebuilders.com/coping-with-infidelity-resentment-part-4.htm

07/09/2024

https://www.marriagebuilders.com/choosing-the-right-one-to-marry-2.htm

07/03/2024

https://tinyurl.com/3jktafrk

07/02/2024

https://www.marriagebuilders.com/when-to-call-it-quits-part-1.htm

06/28/2024

"Do you love me?" one would ask the other.
"Why, of course I do, Honey."
or
"What do you think?" replies the spouse.

https://tinyurl.com/7jezze5w

06/20/2024

What is marriage?

https://tinyurl.com/ycys44s5

06/19/2024

How would you feel if your spouse were to check your email to see who you've been contacting, and what you've been saying? Or, to check your internet history to determine the internet sites you've been visiting? Or, to look over your texting history and cell phone records? Is it right or wrong?

https://tinyurl.com/y9y682sf

06/13/2024

"I hurt all the time because I feel alone and abandoned."

"My husband is no longer my friend."

"The only time he pays attention to me is when he wants s*x."

"He is never there for me when I need him the most."

"When he hurts my feelings he doesn't apologize."

"He lives his life as if we weren't married; he rarely considers me."

"We're like ships passing in the night, he goes his way and I go mine."

"My husband has become a stranger to me, I don't even know who he is anymore."

"He doesn't show any interest in me or what I do."

https://www.marriagebuilders.com/why-women-leave-men.htm

06/05/2024

How do you develop your career and keep love in your marriage?

https://tinyurl.com/4tcp4b5w

05/29/2024

"What could your spouse do for you that would make you the happiest?"

https://tinyurl.com/3nk8j9ay

05/29/2024

How to thrive (or survive) after your first baby.

https://www.marriagebuilders.com/your-first-baby.htm

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Willard F. Harley, Jr., Ph.D. is best known as author of the internationally best selling book, His Needs, Her Needs: Building An Affair-proof Marriage. Over three million copies have been purchased, and it is available in twenty-two foreign translations.

Dr. Harley earned a Ph.D. degree in psychology from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1967 and has been a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Minnesota since 1975. For the first ten years after earning his degree, he taught psychology at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. During those years, he was also a frustrated part-time marriage counselor with little success in helping couples.

In 1973 he discovered that he was not alone in his failure to save marriages -- almost everyone in the marital therapy profession were also failing. So he spent the next two years designing an entirely new approach (see How Dr. Harley Learned to Save Marriages). When his success rate skyrocketed in 1977, he resigned from his teaching position to counsel full-time. Over the next ten years his solo practice developed into the largest network of mental health clinics in Minnesota (thirty-two locations) with over one hundred psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and chemical dependency counselors working with him to provide a full range of mental health services. He became the exclusive provider of mental health and chemical dependency services in ten counties, and had offices in other counties as well.

One of his responsibilities was to write support materials for the clinical program he directed. He created over one hundred questionnaires and wrote numerous articles that were given to clients as part of their therapy. Among the materials he wrote was His Needs, Her Needs, which was first published in 1986. Although it was written to be a support text for his marriage counseling program, within three years it had become a national best-seller and a basic reference for marriage counselors throughout the nation.

By 1988 he found himself spending almost all of his time administering his clinics, and very little time doing what he enjoyed most -- improving his marital therapy program. So he began turning his clinics over to the counselors who worked with him, and the ownership of his last clinic was transferred in 1993. Since then, he has written 19 more books and hundreds of articles.

Dr. Harley continues to write, speak, and lead seminars throughout the US and Canada. For information regarding booking arrangements for his weekend seminar, "How to Fall in Love and Stay in Love," click this link for more information.

Dr. and Mrs. Harley also host a daily one-hour call-in show, Marriage Builders Radio. It can be heard on radio stations and on the Internet. They have been married for 52 years and live in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. They have two adult children, who are now working with them as marriage coaches, and four grandchildren.

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White Bear Lake, MN
55110

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