Publication of "The Super Couple"

I married my husband in1983 passionately in love. In 1987 I filed for divorce, passionately in hate. After a four year separation we got back together yet struggled to attain marital happiness. My doctoral research on humor in marriage 20 years later involved using a survey to better understand how humor is used in marriage. However, the one question on the survey that had nothing to do with humor use gripped my soul and became the catalyst for this book. That question simply asked couples to rate their marriage on a 7-point scale from extremely unhappy to perfect. Out of the 644 persons who took the survey 9 checked "perfect". They seemed to be outliers and were mentally disregarded. However, what was most astounding was the next column that read "Extremely Happy." Thirty-five percent of respondents rated their marriages as "extremely happy." More than one in three. Wow. Their responses burned within me because I was not yet checking the "happy" box. After completing my doctorate in marriage communication and unable to stop pondering these results, I set out to discover what they meant. As such I began to interview dozens of these "super couples" to discover one of two things: did they simply get lucky and married their one-in-a-million (and sucks to be you everyone else who married their one-in-a-hundred), or was it something these couples did or said that made them super. Was there a formula? While I had hoped to find there was a formula, I expected to find that these couples simply got lucky.

How elated I was to discover in interview after interview that there was, in fact, a formula! There were certain things these couples did and said that caused them to attain a level of extreme happiness in their marriages that so many other couples yearn for yet never attain!!

Thus was born "The Super Couple."

This book details and debunks six faulty assumptions thousands of couples hold as to what really causes a couple to attain and remain happily married. It then details the responses heard in interviews as to what super couples believed to be the reasons for their marital superness. And lastly, it presents the actual super couple formula--what was unspoken yet observed of these couples by the interviewer.

Though not always articulated, humans want the fairytale. We want the happily-ever-afters to apply to our marriages too and not just Cinderella's. The greatest part of this research can be witnessed through the marriage of this scholar author who, after applying the super couple formula to her own troubled marriage can now check the "very happy" box. Though not yet checking the "extremely happy" box, my spouse and I are, after 32 years of marriage, well on our way to super. We look forward to spending the rest of our lives together.

Great news! After three and a half years, The Super Couple manuscript is completed and has been accepted for publication! But in order to meet our December 1, 2015 launch date I need your help.

Though the publisher is assuming many of the initial costs associated with publication, there remain other up-front costs of which I am responsible to begin production of this million-copy-bestseller. Some of these costs include website and other social media, trademark and branding, printing and distribution as well as marketing and advertising.

My passion in life is to save marriages. The Super Couple is a powerful tool that will help to streamline that process for so many couples who are struggling to get back to happy. This book has a waiting list of over 1000 people from around the world including Asia, Europe and Africa who have requested at least one copy as soon as it’s published. Most have attended one of my many Super Couple seminars over the years and wish, like me, to have an extremely happy marriage as well. With over two decades of experience delivering seminars internationally as well as working with couples privately, the Super Couple formula has been consistently reaffirmed by couples who have gone from unhappy to super (or are well on their way).
I am humbled by this great responsibility that I have been entrusted with and will be doubly humbled by your trust in my ministry to save marriages as well—yours, your children’s, your neighbor’s or anyone whom you love and wish to see extremely happy in their relationships.

For more information on me or my research feel free to go to my website www.super-couple.com. See you at super!