Marriage counseling as taught in psychology courses isn't marriage counseling at all.

Its focus is therapy for individuals. Historically, marriage counseling for couples breaks down quickly resulting in the couple dropping out of the process completely.

Marriage Counseling has two fundamental problems.

1) It is based on the premise that talking about problems will solve them.
2) Conventional marriage counseling has no defined structure, and no clear end date.

80% of all private practice marriage counselors in the U.S. say they conduct marriage therapy, yet only 12% are in a profession that requires them to take EVEN ONE course on dealing with couples.

The Marriage Lifeline is based on three principles that work to restore marriages:

Principle 1: Identify and focus on the unique strengths of the two spouses, rather than emphasizing their weaknesses.

Principle 2: Teach couples they are actually fighting over invisible value systems given to them by their parents, and show them how to dismantle unproductive programs that threaten the marriage.

Principle 3: Demonstrate how to succeed by getting at the root cause of marriage troubles and teach them how to eliminate their negative feelings in 60 seconds.

At the end of the Marriage Lifeline program, couples create their own specific long-term plan for their marriage. This is a valuable and critical part of the program since most troubled marriages never create a long-term plan for their relationships.