What Makes Love Last?
The Doctors Tell You
Why Simple Things Matter
In Love and Relationships

As a candid glimpse into the lives of successfully married couples, Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage captures the essence of hundreds of interviews over 25 years representing 15,000 years of collective marital wisdom.

With 25 years of research experience on successfully married couples, Drs. Charles and Elizabeth Schmitz know what makes marriage work. From their research they discovered seven pervasive characteristics present in all successful marriages. Golden Anniversaries exposes their secrets for success through poignant, real life stories, garnered from hundreds of interviews with happily married couples as well as from their own 41-year marriage. So many people have requested that the Doctors write a book about their research on successfully married couples that in the year of their 41st wedding anniversary, they decided to finally do it.

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Short Excerpts from Golden Anniversaries to Get You Started:

Happily married couples cannot imagine life without each other. it is so inconceivable to successfully married couples that when you ask them if they could, their eyes fill with tears while they contemplate the question.

When you consider what social science research tells us about the benefits of being married and what our research reveals about the seven characteristics of successful marriage, you have many powerful reasons to work hard to join successful couples who celebrate their Golden Anniversaries together.

Tango dancing is romantic, sensual, athletic, and full of energy. The two dancers depend on each other totally. They dip, they spin, the pirouette, they embrace, and they mirror each other's moves in so many ways. When you see the Tango for the first time you are overwhelmed by the beauty and grace of what you see. And then, suddenly, it dawns on you - it takes two to Tango! You can't Tango alone. This simple notion describes the best marriages we have studied over the years - a marriage, like the Tango, works best if partners move with great synergy and togetherness, learning to be a unit of one.