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Relationships

The 7 Stages of Marriage
Every relationship evolves through seven distinct phases -- from the honeymoon period to the "I love you warts and all" stage. Find out which stage your marriage is in!

Philadelphia Area Marriage Resource Center (PAMRC)
A web-based resource that has been created to help couples in the Delaware Valley strengthen their relationships. It's primary focus includes increasing public awareness for relationship education, increasing the number of couples who participate in structured pre-marital and marriage education programs each year and supporting the creation of community healthy marriage initiatives throughout the Delaware Valley.

Smart Marriages
"The Coalition for Couples, Marriage and Family Education is a unique organization that provides information and resources for couples. "We finally know what's different about couples that stay happily married. It's not that they are better looking, more in love or more passionate. It's not that they have fewer differences or less to fight about. In fact...(click to continue)"

National Healthy Marriage Resource Center
"The NHMRC is a national resource for information and research relating to healthy marriages. It offers marriage and family trends and statistics, marriage education programs, scholarly research and the latest news and events. In particular, the NHMRC also provides training and technical assistance presentations and documents for federally funded Healthy Marriage Initiative (HMI) grantees."

Personal Achievement

John Gray's Personal Success Block Buster
Struggling to achieve goals or get your needs met? Use Dr. John Gray's interactive assessment and personalized "steps to resolving your blocks to success."

Wendi Friesen, CHT, Clinical Hypnotherapist
"Everything we experience, EVERYTHING, is a result of how we perceive it. We choose our reality, our thoughts and our feelings. When you think you no longer have a choice about how you think or feel, you are experiencing a block that may be created by an emotional conflict. Hypnotherapy can find and release the block, allowing you to have the freedom to think and feel the way you want to think and feel. Hypnotherapy feels great and it is a fast and permanent solution."

Sexuality

Council for Relationships
Council for Relationships is a nationally recognized center for helping individuals and couples with their sexual concerns and relationships.

The Sinclair Intimacy Institute
Up-to-date professional resources to enhance or improve your sexual relationship.

Addictions

Alcoholics Anonymous
Are you concerned about alcohol use or abuse with yourself or a family member?

Rational Recovery
Information on self-recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs.

Infidelity

Beyond Affairs Network (BAN)
BAN is a network of local support groups for people who are dealing with the devastating impact of a spouse's affair. It is for women and men (still married or divorced) seeking support in recovering from this experience. (BAN is for "meetings," not just email.)

DearPeggy.com
Resources for Recovering from Extramarital Affairs

Honesty Can Heal the Hurt of Affairs:
Instead of throwing in towel, work on trust, openness and acceptance is key.
Article written by Melissa Kossler Dutton for The Associated Press and published in February 2008.

Affiliates

Reader's Digest
Publisher of Rita DeMaria's newest book, The 7 Stages of Marriage: Laughter, Passion, Intimacy Today, Tomorrow, Forever

Amazon
Marketplace for books and other educational materials on how to improve your own relationship and training materials for counselors and clergy who work closely with couples who are trying to improve the lives they have with each another.

America Online Coaches
Featured as a Love and Sex expert for AOL Coaches/AOL Body, Dr. Rita DeMaria offers couples advice about how to improve their relationships -- whether they are newlyweds or have been married for 50 years.

 

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