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Online marriage program seeks to pay off
By J. David Barron, dbarron@starlocalnews.com
Are you willing to work for your marriage? Would you like to get paid for your work?
A unique, one-of-a-kind program has hit the Dallas-Fort Worth market with designs on strengthening the core of what it sees as the foundation for a better society: the marriage.
Guarantee Your Marriage is a new online marriage-training program that is part ministry, part commerce. It offers married couples an interactive curriculum that comes with both a warranty against divorce and a $25,000 payout for long-term success.
"Guarantee Your Marriage is our fun and interactive way to help couples put their marriages first and to reward them when they do," Bazinet said. "And we believe strongly enough in our training that we are willing to provide a warranty in the event the marriage fails."
The training touts itself as a hassle-free manner in which couples learn strategies and skills to help them build and sustain more successful marriages. A small monthly membership fee is required and requires each partner to spend about 30 minutes online each month completing a training module. Additionally, couples are provided with various activities designed to reinforce what they each learned through the online curriculum.
"Nothing good happens without active engagement," Bazinet said. "We believe that couples can increase their odds of lasting love by working to stay positively connected and by handling the inevitable challenges of life as a team.
"For a regular investment of as little as 30 minutes a month, our online training provides a lifetime of resources that couples can use to keep their marriages happier, healthier and more successful for themselves and their children."
Couples who divorce after completing four years of the training, and who otherwise remain in good standing with the program, are eligible for a warranty payment of up to $10,000 - based on their years of participation in the program.
"For couples whose marriages just don't survive, we see the warranty as offering some support to help them overcome the emotional and financial upheaval that typically ensues when a couple divorces," Bazinet said.
Conversely, couples who reach 20 years of marriage with active membership in the program are offered a membership reward of $25,000 for their success.
"We know that the biggest value of our training comes from the joy and fulfillment couples experience with happier, healthier and more successful marriages, but having a monetary payoff for their efforts over time adds one more incentive to continue investing in their relationships with the regular training we provide," Bazinet said. "The day we make our first membership reward payoff to a couple will be one of the happiest days of my life!"
The membership reward, like the divorce warranty, is paid out to eligible couples over a five-year period.
The training content is based on more than 30 years of research findings on marriage and relationship education, according to Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP) founders Dr. Howard J. Markman and Dr. Scott M. Stanley. The two are researchers from the University of Denver's Center for Marital and Family Studies. They promote PREP as a research-based and tested educational approach to helping couples build and maintain stronger, healthier and happier marriages. Markman and Stanley have been tracking couples in numerous studies over many years in order to advance the knowledge needed to help couples achieve their goals in marriage.
"We have devoted our professional lives to helping couples succeed in their marriages," Stanley said. "We know the devastating effects broken marriages have on society, and we also know the payoffs for successful marriage relationships. For example, studies show people in healthy marriages are likely to have better physical health than others, have greater satisfaction with their lives, and tend to build more assets and savings over their lifetime.
"But it doesn't stop there. Research shows that children who grow up with parents in healthy marriages tend to fare better in terms of academic performance, mental health, drug and alcohol use, and their own relationships, than children whose parents divorce. The positive effects of successful marriages can - and often do - pay off for generations," Stanley said.
To learn more about Guarantee Your Marriage or to sign up to begin online training, go to www.guaranteeyourmarriage.com.
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