My Story

 Nothing came easy to me. My dad had addictions, personality disorders and zero empathy. I was desperate for love, and found it, so I thought, in a marriage. Soon my loneliness overwhelmed me. I wept on my pillow silently, so my husband wouldn’t hear and struggled with suicidal thoughts. I did everything I knew how to do to make the marriage work, but it did not. It takes two. After the marriage ended, I returned to teaching Special Education and raising our two children. After they were grown, I met Andrew and we found our goals, interests and purposes matched. We married and within our first year of marriage, we began coaching couples for MarriageTeam. Our having struggled with previous relationships where our beloveds had personality disorder and or addictions, gave us empathy. The principles we learned set a fabulous foundation for our own marriage and for those couples we coached. We want so much to help others enjoy the love, harmony and stability we have. We wrote, “Tune-Up Your Relationship” for you.