Built To Last Marriages is a non-profit service to help individuals and couples successfully transition from being single to married, with particular emphasis on early marriage love skills through the first five years of marriage. BTLM helps couples develop constructive habits of intimate interaction that establish patterns for a lifetime of happiness and fun.

These tools are offered free of charge to engaged couples and newlyweds by wedding ministers of the 1st Choice Weddings Network and by Sanctuary Christian Ministries. Our only agenda is helping couples discover how fantastic, happy, and fun marriage can be!

 

Success in marriage is rooted in finding your unique chemistry -- what specifically works for the two of you -- and effectively building healthy chemistry as both you and your marriage evolve. The Love Toolbox™ helps you better understand yourself, each other and, most importantly, the dynamics of your relationship.

You will learn more about what makes your relationship unique, what to expect, and receive specific tips and tools for building and maintaining a happy, lasting marriage.

The Love Toolbox™ is a web-based, confidential marriage preparation tool created by renowned author and marriage coach Dr. Chuck Laird. This first-of-its-kind, self-administered diagnostic integrates concepts in human dynamics, personal development, sociology, systems theory, business organizational development, psychology, and even spirituality.

Features 10-page readout of your relational patterns and how to develop them.

 

Dr. Chuck's Marriage Love-o-meter ™ is an extraordinary marriage development program specially designed for couples in transition seasons of life -- newlyweds, new parents, empty nesters, or others desiring more love and excitement in their relationship.

The Marriage Love-o-meter reveals your love rating by the day, week, and month for over a year. Every couple's Love-o-meter is unique -- no two are the same. Your Marriage Love-o-meter not only measures your love but tells you each how to up your score! This is particularly important as life changes impact the quantity and quality of intereactions.

Daily Time Requirement: Only 10-15 minutes each per day.

NOTE: The longer you stay on the program the more you keep developing the skills that keep marriages growing happier, healthier, and younger! Minimum requirement is one month to be effective.

All Built To Last Marriages web-based programs are free for couples, compliments of your wedding minister, Wedding Ministers, Inc., and Sanctuary Christian Ministries, Inc.
  FOR:

  • Engaged couples
  • Couples living together
  • Seeking understanding

    • YOU WILL LEARN:

  • why your relationship works and how to keep it going
  • the healthiest patterns, skills, and habits for your marriage
  • what to expect
  • how to communicate in ways your fiancé can understand
  • potential pitfalls given your marriage niche and how to avoid them
  • what likely will come easy for the two of you and what to do about it
  • relational repair tips
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      FOR:

  • Newlyweds
  • New Parents
  • Marriage Renewal

    • YOU WILL LEARN:

  • why your relationship works and how to keep it going
  • the healthiest patterns, skills, and habits for your marriage
  • what to expect
  • how to communicate in ways your fiancé can understand
  • potential pitfalls given your marriage niche and how to avoid them
  • what likely will come easy for the two of you and what to do about it
  • relational repair tips
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    There are two primary kinds of pursued wealth -- financial and relational. Achieving financial or relational wealth requires skill, intentionality, wisdom, discipline, commitment ... and time. The Personal Manager is a personal development tool for enjoying effectiveness, finding and fulfilling your purpose, and building a relational fortune!

    Why You Need This: Whereas initial attraction requires no effort (a product of chemical peptides naturally produced by the brain), happy, lasting relationships are NOT biologically induced. Without ongoing discipline, commitment, and personal investment, the chances of success in marriage are slim. Your Personal Manager helps you control your decisions and gives you a tool for saying "no" to the urgent for the sake of the more important.

    Daily Time Requirement: More up front time to establish alignment between daily activities, priorities, and personal vision/mission. This is not easy but it is tremendously empowering and liberating. Once you determine your cores, your primary activities are goal-setting, strategizing, monitoring results and making adjustments to turn continually turn a relational profit.
      FOR:

  • Individuals
  • Singles or Married
  • Personal or Professional

    • YOU WILL LEARN:

  • why your relationship works and how to keep it going
  • the healthiest patterns, skills, and habits for your marriage
  • what to expect
  • how to communicate in ways your fiancé can understand
  • potential pitfalls given your marriage niche and how to avoid them
  • what likely will come easy for the two of you and what to do about it
  • relational repair tips
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      IDEAL FOR:

  • Newlyweds
  • Extended Families
  • Recommitments
  • Church Groups

    • Seminars Include:

  • Creating Oneness I
  • Creating Oneness II
  • Take Fun Seriously
  • Relational Repair Skills
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