PR Funding | Marriage Week | Divorce Lawyers & Prevention | Jeff Larson & Alan Hawkins | Songs - 2/8/08

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- KNOW A GOOD PR FIRM?!
- MARRIAGE WEEK PROCLAMATIONS AND AMAZING COMMUNITY MARRIAGE WEBSITES!!
- DIVORCE LAWYERS AND DIVORCE PREVENTION
- JEFFRY LARSON NEW EDITOR OF JCRT
- ROW, ROW, ROW - GETTING OUR MESSAGE OUT
- MARRIAGE SONG DETECTIVE: PATTY NEWBOLD!

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- KNOW A GOOD PR FIRM?!
This is exciting - funding for a national media campaign about marriage!!

> NHMRC Funding Opportunity
> The National Healthy Marriage Resource Center (NHMRC) announces a funding
> opportunity for $250,000 to conduct research that will form the basis for a
> national media/social marketing campaign about marriage. For more information,
> visit our Marriage Matters section at www.healthymarriageinfo.org. The
> National Healthy Marriage Resource Center is a service of the U.S. Department
> of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office
> of Family Assistance.
> 
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- MARRIAGE WEEK PROCLAMATIONS AND AMAZING COMMUNITY MARRIAGE WEBSITES!!

> Virginia Governor Tim Kaine and Richmond Mayor Douglas Wilder have each issued
> Celebrate Marriage Week proclamations!
>  
> This is an initiative of First Things First of Greater Richmond.
> For additional events, see
> <http://www.firstthingsrichmond.org/>

I just visited the Richmond First Things First website (above) and also The
Marriage Resource Center of Wayne County Michigan http://www.mimarriage.org/
- both are simply wonderful!   Send me your Marriage Week news to share and
also send me your updated websites for sharing.  We need to show off your
Marriage Week events and your websites.  - diane
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- DIVORCE LAWYERS AND DIVORCE PREVENTION

> Diane,  
> I have been working with Michael Hiller, Family Law attorney in Houston.
> Please check out his website with its rotating  "Do You Really Want to Get
> Divorced?" banners: http://hiller.makeitcomplete.com/content/view/35/67/  He
> has been pro-marriage for some time and attended both the the 1999 and the
> 2003 Smart Marriages conferences. - Maggie Russell

This deserves a feature article in the Houston Chronicle and on Houston TV.
Maggie, why don't you contact them and see if you can create interest and
use it to publicize the whole Texas marriage movement? We should all try to
encourage Divorce lawyers in our communities to imitate Hiller. I wonder
what he offers as "divorce prevention"? We've had many proactive family
lawyers and judges presenting at Smart Marriages including John Crouch, Lynn
Gold-Bikin and Judges Dynda Post, Helen Brown, and Jim Sheridan. They see
the carnage up close on a daily basis and are very motivated especially when
they hear about marriage education and what it has to offer. Educate your
local judges and legal community!  Lynn Gold-Bikin, one of the top divorce
attorneys in the country, has a working relationship with the PAIRS program
- refers last-ditch couples to the course with great success. She was so
inspired by PAIRS results that she was able to get the ABA Family Law
division to sponsor an adaptation of the PAIRS program into a marriage
education curriculum, PARTNERS, to be taught in high schools by volunteer
family lawyers.  Find info about Crouch's work on his American's for Divorce
Reform website: www.divorcereform.org  And, check the archive for info and
articles on Gold-Bikin's PARTNERS program:
http://lists101.his.com/pipermail/smartmarriages/
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- JEFFRY LARSON NEW EDITOR OF JCRT
Hi Diane and the CMFCE: The Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy:
Innovations in Clinical and Educational Interventions  announces it¹s new
editor, Jeffry Larson, PhD, LMFT, CFLE, professor of Marriage and Family
Therapy at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.  The JCRT publishes papers
on research, theory, and clinical practice in couple therapy and education.
In addition, the journal has added a new special focus section called,
Couple Prevention and Education Update.  Dr. Alan Hawkins, Professor in the
School of Family Life, Brigham Young University is the new Update Associate
Editor. Every issue will contain information useful to couple educators and
researchers. We plan to publish the latest developments in couple education
and enrichment including descriptions of new programs, formative and
summative evaluations, outcome studies in couple education, issues in couple
education, resources for professionals and the public (e. g. book reviews,
TOOB programs, couple workbook and DVD programs, etc).  To learn more about
the journal see: 
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/ViewLibraryEText.asp or contact Dr.
Larson at:  jeffry_larson at byu.edu.

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- ROW, ROW, ROW - GETTING OUR MESSAGE OUT

> Hey Diane, 
> I sent the link to the Smart Marriages brochure to the following websites and
> lists here in Texas. I also told them that I've attended and if they have
> questions about the conference that they could contact me. I will
> keep you posted on the response. - Erin Kincaid, ANTHEM
>  
> HRRobbinsPHD - mulitiple providers
> Marriage MD - multiple marriage/family counselors
> GoodTherapy.org
> Lezlie Burwell-Pender - at the University of North Texas
> Larry Leflore- head of the social services at Texas Women's University.

Now if each of you could forward to lists or websites like this in your
state or organizations, our work would soon be done!

Here's the link  - it provides several download options.
http://www.smartmarriages.com/download.brochure.html

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- MARRIAGE SONG DETECTIVE: PATTY NEWBOLD!
Patty Newbold was the first to find the song Don Ferguson remembered. Now we
need a techie genius who can buy the vinyl, has a "record player", and knows
how to post the song on YouTube so we can ALL hear it.

> Fall In Love With Your Wife
> Mac Davis, 1974
> Album: All the Love in the World
> 
> Can't find the lyrics online, but Amazon lists four copies of the vinyl
> album for sale and eBay lists one.
> 
> Paty Newbold
> www.assumelove.com

Here was Don's email. It must be pretty good if it would inspire a young
soldier and he'd still remember it 30 years later.  Maybe we can get someone
to do a new version.  - diane
>> Diane,
>> The question about marriage songs brought up an old one for me.  When I was
>> in the Army, so somewhere around the early 70's, there was a country song
>> "Fall in Love with Your Wife" which suggested that if a guy wants to
>> experience the passion and thrills of wild sex, he might be best to actually
>> "fall in love with his wife".  Even in those early days, when I thought I
>> might travel the world having wild adventures, etc. I thought this was a very
>> sweet message and it was also a lively tune.  I tried to google the song and
>> couldn't find it.
>> Don Ferguson
>> www.reptilesinlove.com

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> Diane,  
> One of my favorite songs to use in my workshops with couples is the song- "Buy
> Me a Rose" by Kenny Rodgers  It is a good to use when we talk about
> understanding His Need Her Needs.  I send everyone home with a rose
> to remind them that week to learn what their mate is trying to tell them
> spoken or unspoken.
> Merrilie
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Grow Old With You
Adam Sandler sang this as the character Robbie Hart in The Wedding Singer

I wanna make you smile whenever you're sad
Carry you around when your arthritis is bad
All I wanna do is grow old with you

Ill get your medicine when your tummy aches
Build you a fire if the furnace breaks
Oh it could be so nice, growing old with you

Ill miss you
Ill kiss you
Give you my coat when you are cold

Ill need you
Ill feed you
Even let ya hold the remote control

So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink
Put you to bed when you've had too much to drink
I could be the man who grows old with you
I wanna grow old with you

You can hear it on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CYI5bKZMes&feature=related

- Eric Bailey
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> This is one of my favourite marriage songs.  It is country music but I love
> the message, "What a Beautiful Day" by Chris Cagle.  Here is a link to the
> lyrics.
> 
> http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/cagle-chris/what-a-beautiful-day-3401.htm
> l
> 
> Here is a link to a Youtube video of it.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKe9AoxdMGY

> Charlie Keogh
> Dundee, Scotland


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