About Us

Rich:

Beyond the obligatory information, such as I have been married 21 years to the same sweet, dear woman, and we have wonderful 4 children, I must tell you why we have chosen to write about the area of love, romance, and marriage.

Laura and I have seen literally dozens of relationships of people we have known throughout the years end in divorce, break ups and heartbreaks–this includes family, friends, and acquaintances from school. Couples across the board are splitting up for good in massive numbers, leaving a fallout of misery for their children and society to clean up.

Not only are there statistics to support the desire to stop this from happening, but there are the anecdotal stories of actual people who have suffered a great deal from the rotten relationships that spun out of control and ruined entire families’ lives. The most amazing thing is that these catastrophes could have been avoided in most instances if only a few simple principles were followed.

It’s very hard to hate someone that you show love to on a consistent basis. That is, if you put as much effort into loving the person you claim to hate by regularly romancing them as you did when you were dating, it becomes almost impossible to split up or divorce. Funny how that works isn’t it? In my case, I just forgot how important that romance is to my wife. I woke up one day and found that my dear sweet wife had changed – a lot – right under my nose. How does that happen?

We all are changing everyday. Slowly we evolve into people that barely resemble the person we were 5, 10, 20 years ago. Couples have to take each other’s “pulse” to check in and see where they are at, and where they are going. If they do that on a regular basis they are less like likely to be disappointed about where they are headed as a couple. Laura and I practice this on a regular basis and it has helped us tremendously. We have had some major life events in the last 5 years that have forced us to consistently communicate on a deeper level.

We feel closer now than we have in many years. We know that we have a long way to go compared to many couples; however, we believe we have a lot of valuable experiences and knowledge to share with other couples. It is our heartfelt desire to help as many couples as we can to achieve the maximum amount of happiness and fulfillment in their relationships as possible.
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Laura:

Besides agreeing with everything that Rich wrote, I have to say I love romance because it just plain makes life fun!

Romance is something we both try extra hard to incorporate into our marriage. We have been married for 21 years so have had a lot of time to practice this!

I hope that all that we write about and share can be an encouragement to others and a help. Marriage isn’t easy and Rich and I have found ourselves that the more help and encouragement we can get the better. We are always doing our best to be learning, growing together, and trying new things.

So…. you are welcome here, and we hope you’ll enjoy reading!

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