one man's journey

Posted on Tuesday, November 02, 2010


Jennifer and I have dated since we were juniors in high school. I was 17 and she was 16. We were even voted best senior couple and most likely to get married. It was at this time that we started a sexual relationship as well. We both would tell you now that we were too young, but at the time we felt like we were just finding ourselves and didn’t really know any better.  READ MORE

International Adoption

Posted on Friday, October 29, 2010


I keep hearing about couple after couple that are working toward international adoption.  I think this is awesome and can only imagine that it will take their marital relationship to another level.  One such couple is Jody and Alison Schmelzer.  Alison started a blog to document their story.  They have decide to adopt through All God's Children International. I asked Jody how they decided to adopt and what it has meant to their marriage, and in typical guy form, he deferred to Alison's Monday, May 10, 2010 post.  I have copied it below and have also included an awesome video that helped them decide to bring a child into their family from Ethiopia.   READ MORE

A Man's Purpose

Posted on Sunday, October 17, 2010


Welcome to My Marriage is Forever

Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2010


Welcome to My Marriage is Forever.  As a married father of two daughters and a divorce lawyer for over ten years, I have a unique perspective about marriage.  This site exists because I am discouraged by seeing marriage after marriage fail because of predictable and avoidable problems.  Anyone who knows me knows I am serious about marketing. I hope you can tell by just looking around our sites. I enjoy the marketing aspect of being a business owner as much as I like helping people in family legal crisis.  While researching family law marketing around the country, I heard about a divorce lawyer in Chicago who was doing a series of ads with the catchphrase “Life’s Short- Get a Divorce.”  An attractive fitness (and plastic surgery) enthusiast, the female attorney created billboards and a website with her and her muscular trainer photographed from the neck down- wearing clothes that let’s just say would not be appropriate for court. The message of these ads is that you should live for today. READ MORE