Mediate Michigan

Now more than ever, people are coming to my couple’s mediation office to help them save their financially wounded marriages. They aren’t asking me for a job, rather they want me to help them stop fighting about their lack of money, job loss and who is to blame for the absence of love and respect in their relationship. As a consequence of today’s recession, many cash-strapped couples are experiencing a marital meltdown. Even happy couples admit that the sudden economic downturn is testing their “I do” commitment.

Couples know that divorce is expensive and traumatic so they are desperate to avoid it. According to a 2006 wealth study using information from the U.S. Census Bureau, people who married and stayed married built up nearly twice the net worth of people who stayed single over a 15-year period.

The New Trend

With money tight and insurance coverage dwindling, the traditional route of costly long-term couples talk therapy can be difficult. Instead, a new and empowering trend in marriage is emerging, though most people don’t know about it yet. It is called couples mediation. This effective marriage-saving program delivers immediate low-cost relief. It focuses on replacing bad verbal habits with good ones, to quickly reinvigorate the respect, appreciation and intimacy in the marriage.

Here are five tips you might receive from mediation to save a financially wounded marriage.

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