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Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage [Hardcover]

Charles D. Schmitz (Author), Elizabeth A. Schmitz (Author)
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February 1, 2008
As a candid glimpse into the lives of successfully married couples, this book provides a uniquely positive perspective on what makes marriages survive and thrive. What you learn from this wonderfully unique and powerful book is that you can save, improve or enhance your marriage if you listen to the advice of couples with 15,000 years of collective wisdom. Using poignant, real life stories to uncover the Seven Secrets for Successful Marriage, this book captures the essence of more than 25 years of interviews with successfully married couples in the U.S.A. and around the world. And you will love the results!

The central point of their research is that successful love and relationships are an accumulation of the little things. The little things matter! It isn t enough to just think about the little things or just talk about the little things. You have to just DO the little things every day! That's what makes love and relationships last! If you understand and implement the simple ideas presented in this book, you will be well on your way to having a successful and long-lasting marriage.

You cannot learn or understand success by studying failure. That s a fact! Drs. Charles and Elizabeth Schmitz understood this notion more than 25 years ago when they began their research. By interviewing couples with successful marriages lasting from 30 to 60 years they learned a lot about successful marriage. They discovered the Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage by gathering data from hundreds of interviews with long-time happily married couples and their own extraordinarily successful 41-year marriage.

When you read their exceptional book you will understand that studying successful marriage is a prerequisite to understanding why most marriages succeed and some fail! This book gives you the power to make your marriage a success so you can celebrate your Golden Anniversaries together. Love well!

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Mom's Choice Awards Winner 2009

"Most Outstanding Relationships and Marriage Book 2009" Gold Medal WINNER --Mom's Choice Awards
Nautilus Book Awards WINNER for 2009 Relationship Books
"Best Relationship Book" Gold Medal WINNER --INDIE Book Awards

"Charley and Liz Schmitz completed their superb book, Golden Anniversaries, in honor of their own 41st wedding anniversary. As someone who has followed their work for two decades, I can attest to their wonderfully loving and successful marriage. For 25 years they have interviewed other successfully married couples like themselves in an effort to discover whether there are pervasive characteristics present in all successful marriages. Their interview protocol adhered to the mantra at the Gallup Organization - If you want to learn about success, study success. The results of their findings will prove to be a valuable guide to understanding successful marriage. This book will make a positive difference in your life." --Dr. Cheryl Beamer - Vice President - The Gallup Organization


"Golden Anniversaries is a recipient of the prestigious Mom's Choice Award Gold Medal for the Most Outstanding Relationships and Marriage Book. The Mom's Choice Awards honors excellence in family-friendly media, products and services. An esteemed panel of judges includes education, media and other experts as well as parents, children, librarians, performing artists, producers, medical and business professionals, authors, scientists and others. A sampling of the panel members includes: Dr. Twila C. Liggett, Ten-time Emmy-winner, professor and founder of Reading Rainbow; Julie Aigner-Clark, Creator of Baby Einstein and The Safe Side Project; Jodee Blanco, New York Times Best-Selling Author; LeAnn Thieman, Motivational speaker and coauthor of seven Chicken Soup For The Soul books; Tara Paterson, Certified Parent Coach, and founder of the Mom's Choice Awards. Parents and educators look for the Mom s Choice Awards seal in selecting quality materials and products for children and families. Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage has been honored with the highest gold medal by this distinguished award. --Mom's Choice Awards Gold Medal Winner!" --Mom's Choice Awards

"Finally, a positive book about marriage! As Drs. Charles and Liz Schmitz often say, 'You cannot learn about success by studying failure.' Their thesis -- in love and marriage the simple things matter -- truly resonated with me and my audience when I interviewed them on my show Victoria Street. I found the Doctors to be absolutely delightful and wonderfully engaging."
--Victoria Becker - Radio Show Host on Station KLAY serving Lakewood, Tacoma, Seattle and Olympia

About the Author

With 25 years of research experience on successful marriage and their own 41-year marriage, Drs. Charles and Elizabeth Schmitz know what makes marriage work. From their hundreds of interviews with happily married couples, representing 15,000 years of marriage, they've discovered the seven pervasive characteristics present in all successful marriages.

During their distinguished careers the Doctors have received some 60 local, state, and national awards; published nearly 350 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 Family and Counseling Therapy at the University of Missouri in St. Louis and Dr. Elizabeth Schmitz is President of Successful Marriage Reflections, LLC.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Briarcliff Publishing; 1st edition (February 1, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0980055407
  • ISBN-13: 978-0980055405
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,076,210 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This book provides a framework for lifelong marital happiness!, January 18, 2008
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This review is from: Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage (Hardcover)
Drs. Charles and Liz Schmitz have taken an entirely new perspective in understanding successful marriages. Rather than employing the approach most researchers use (studying failed relationships and trying to figure out what went wrong), Charles and Liz studied successful marriages (ones lasting at least 30 years) and what went right. Their research on over 15,000 years of successful marriages across cultures and continents provides a refreshing and uplifting perspective into one of society's most valuable institutions. Their book provides a framework for lifelong marital happiness. It is written in a very easy to read style that has cute (and true) stories that will make you laugh and also bring a tear to your eye. This is the best book ever written on how to have a successful, happy and lifelong marriage. It should be given to every couple as a wedding present and made required reading before they take their vows.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Truly a Golden read - recommended, April 25, 2008
This review is from: Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage (Hardcover)
As a leadership coach for executive women, I help my clients deal with marital stress almost as a matter of course. Communications and even basic courtesy can go out the window when partners feel threatened and/or overwhelmed at work and at home.

It is my pleasure to recommend this book, from two people who clearly practice what they preach and exemplify a relationship that is truly "golden". With mesmerizing tale-telling skills the Schmitz's take you through such an engaging wonderland of couples who have survived and thrived through stunning marital blows, you'll find it difficult to put the book down. Therapists, take notice. You need this book in your waiting room and on your recommended reading list. Ditto for anyone male or female whose relationship is in trouble. Married or not, Golden Anniversaries will teach you the skills you need to live long and happily with yourself, and with your partner.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars We highly recommend this book!, January 18, 2008
This review is from: Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage (Hardcover)
We had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Charley and Liz for their book, Golden Anniversaries. It was our honor to share with them the ingredients of our own marital success based upon our 38-year marriage. As two very actively engaged professionals over the course of our marriage, we know that our own success is based upon an "accumulation of the little things" as Charley and Liz so often remind us. Mastering them was a prerequisite to our own marital happiness. We highly recommend their important book.

Dr. Thomas F. George, Chancellor, University of Missouri-St. Louis and Dr. Barbara Harbach, Professor of Music, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Review published with permission of Dr. George and Dr. Harbach
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IN OUR MANY INTERVIEWS with people "in love" we ask them, perhaps, the most revealing question of the interview  "How will I know I am in love? Read the first page
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