Divorce Busting With Michele Weiner-Davis
The philosophy behind the popular Divorce Busting program is that it's never too late to save a marriage. Divorce Busting offers a practical approach to saving a marriage.
Marriage therapist and best-selling author Michele Weiner Davis, M.S.W., developed a creative, successful approach for coaching couples who were having marital difficulties and contemplating divorce. She wrote her best seller, Divorce Busting, in 1992 and has been helping couples repair their marriages since then.
Avoiding Unnecessary Divorce
Dr. Weiner-Davis advises couples how to avoid unnecessary divorce. Her six books, her lectures, and her Divorce Busting Center, with offices in Colorado and Illinois, help untold numbers of couples stay together through difficult times. Thousands of visitors find help on her website every day. She lives the life she tells others to live: Dr. Weiner-Davis and her husband have been married for more than 30 years.
The Truth About Divorce
Dr. Weiner-Davis began her counseling career as many therapists do: helping patients who think they want a divorce to adjust to the idea of being single and go forward with their divorces and their new single lives. However, the woman behind Divorce Busting discovered that virtually no one found the happiness they sought by getting a divorce. She discovered that getting a divorce nearly always created more problems for her patients than it solved. Instead of helping clients find the path to divorce, she set about trying to help them divorce-proof their marriages.
The Sex-Starved Marriage
Dr. Weiner-Davis has written a self-help book called The Sex-Starved Marriage: A Couple's Guide To Boosting Their Marital Libido. Complaints about low levels of sexual desire top the list of issues couples bring to marriage therapists, and Divorce Busting addresses this issue in Dr. Weiner-Davis's book. She recognizes the importance of addressing the sexual aspect of a marriage as part of the process of saving the marriage. She discusses how hormones, medication, illness, and fatigue can prevent couples from "just doing it."
The Divorce Remedy
This seven-step program for saving a marriage is the foundation of Divorce Busting. Dr. Weiner-Davis discusses the peril of relying on friends and family for marital advice. Seeing an unhappy person in pain, most loved ones will steer the unhappy husband or wife to the path of least resistance, divorce, instead of encouraging the individual to invest some time and energy into the marriage. Divorce Busting accurately points out that the couple is already bound for life if they have children, so they may as well try to work things out.
