The bad news:

No marriage is immune to gravity.

It’s always easier – for everybody – to let your issues, life stresses, personality differences, and your baggage drag your marriage slowly down.

If you don’t work against it, gravity wins.

What pulls everyone down pulls your marriage apart.

Love leaks out, and your passion dries up.

Misery seems inevitable because the pull-down’s inescapable.

Gravity is always sucking at your spirit.

The good news:

You can defy gravity.

You can liberate the spirit of joyful companionship

imprisoned by long indifference and distracted neglect.

You can lighten your heart and strike sparks when you kiss,

and the change won’t fade as the days, weeks, and months pass.

Because you’ll do the work that works the change at your core,

Where you have to be so honest that the truth-telling transforms you.

You’ll see yourself with utter clarity, and your mate with new eyes.

You’ll feel the tide shift, and you’ll know – you’ll know with certainty -

That you can grow a marriage full of light and laughter and liking life together.

The even better news:

It’s not that hard.

(Even if it seems impossible, right now.)

And it doesn’t take that long.

(You can do the hardest work in a weekend, and you’ll learn the rest over the next three months.)