
Your Relationship as Your Greatest Adventure
Get ready… Radical Marriage will open your eyes, rock your world and change your reality about marriage.
rad.i.cal (adjective): very different from the usual or traditional
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What Kind of Marriage
Do You Want?
Most couples don’t want an ordinary, boring, routine relationships. They want excitement, fun, closeness, love. When we get married we make vows to be together until death do us part. That’s a long time, and sadly, half of marriages don’t or can’t keep that commitment…
What is a
Radical Marriage?
rad.i.cal (adjective): very different from the usual or traditional Most couples don’t want an ordinary, boring, routine relationship. They want excitement, fun, closeness, love. When we get married we make vows to be together until death do us part. That’s a long time, and sadly, half of …
Is Radical Marriage
for You?
Radical Marriage requires a strong relationship, so if yours is struggling, focusing on functional basics must be your priority (a good place to start is here). Radical Marriage requires a willingness to take risks, overcome resistance and experience a bit of fear, which can induce stress and …
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How to Double Your Romance with One Way Dates
How do you keep things new and fresh in a long term relationship? Most couples agree that to continue to experience romance they need to continue “dating” each other but over time, couples can easily develop routines that become ruts. Does this sound familiar? Partner #1: “What do you want to do?”Partner #2: “I don’t know, what do YOU want to do?” Then they end…
Four Alternatives to Compromise for Resolving Conflict and Relationship Differences
Compromise should be a last resort for resolving differences in a relationship and here’s why: When you “compromise” you are giving up some of what you want/need to meet in the middle somewhere with your partner. If you do this often enough you will find yourself sacrificing too much to make the relationship work and will resent your partner and be unhappy. Here’s an example:…
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Twelve Year Anniversary Update
We celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary during a pandemic and a lot has happened since our 10 year anniversary post, so here’s an update. When the kids went off to college and we had an empty nest, we sold our house and have been living on our boat since 2017. More about that here. This photo is Darlene running RCI (Relationship Coaching Institute) from our…
What People are Saying about Radical Marriage
“Radical Marriage is for couples in good marriages who envision something wonderful for their future together. The Steeles have given us a manifesto and road map for marriage as a more perfect union.”
William J. Doherty, Ph.D.
Professor of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota, author of Take Back Your Marriage: Sticking Together in a World That Pulls Us Apart“Radical Marriage is a pragmatic, how-to manual for courageous couples, presented with the grace and grit of years of experience both as a professional relationship coach and a humble and determined student of marriage.”
Hedy and Yumi Schleifer
HedyYumi.org“Radical Marriage is an accessible and clear description of the steps for relationship success with many easy-to-follow strategies for making life and love better.”
Don Ferguson, Ph.D.
Author of Reptiles in Love and The Couples’ Manual"Is your marriage where you want it to be? This book will challenge you to take it to the next level, beyond where you ever thought it could be. Your marriage can be more – wonderfully more, extraordinarily more, radically more!”
Greg and Priscilla Hunt
BetterMarriages.org“Radical Marriage provides clear ideas, easy strategies to follow, and a ‘radical’ new paradigm for creating the relationship of your dreams.”
Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D.
Co-authors of Making Marriage Simple