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Turn the Page to a Better Marriage & Life
Overcome Marital Conflict, including Infidelity, Poor Communication, Miserable Interactions & Midlife Crises
Are you feeling lost and heartbroken...
… in a marriage marred by infidelity, constant arguments or a husband’s midlife crisis? Traditional approaches often drag on and focus on emotions, which can be overwhelming and frustratingly unproductive. As a marital mediator who saw too many couples let down by counseling and traditional forms of marriage help, Debra Macleod, BA, JD, certainly thought so. That's why she created her practical marriage-saving approach.
Marriage SOS™ isn't therapy: it's strategic management of a marriage crisis
It isn't about endless office visits or costly coaching packages stuffed with filler, either; it's about diving into intensive real-world guidance and emerging with a clear vision of what you're going to say and not say, do and not do, to kick-start your spouse's motivation to save your marriage.
You know what your spouse's priority is right now. If it isn't you, then your priority should be to learn everything you can, fast, to change that.
Marriage Books that Mean Business*
*Knowledge is power, and secret knowledge can give you an advantage if you’re dealing with a difficult spouse. To avoid a book showing up on your doorstep or a shared device, download the bookseller’s reading app for iOS (iPhone/iPad) or Android and read on whatever device you’re on. All major retailers (e.g. Google Play Books, Amazon/Kindle, Barnes & Noble, Apple, etc.) offer this fast and free feature. You may wish to choose a retailer that you don’t currently have an account with to avoid the book showing up in a shared library.
Stop Fighting to Get Along: Practical, Painless Ways to Improve Communication, Interactions & Conflict Resolution Skills in Marriage.
Debra Macleod draws upon her background as a marital mediator and her “Fair, but Aware” approach to offer spouses a wealth of intelligent, creative strategies to improve their marriage. Show the world that you’re lovers, not fighters, with this ultimate guide to marital happiness.
The Shut-Out Wife: Breaking Through Your Husband’s Midlife Crisis
A must-read book for any woman who feels shut out of her husband’s life due to his so-called midlife crisis, including a midlife affair or inappropriate friendship. This practical, candid and game-changing book helps a woman maintain her dignity while masterfully navigating her husband’s behavior and saving her marriage.
The Stubborn Affair: Dealing With Infidelity and a Spouse Who Won’t End Their Affair
If your spouse had an affair, and if they’re being uncooperative or untrustworthy in its aftermath, you know there are few things as “stubborn” as an affair situation. This practical, plainspoken book gives you eye-opening insights and powerful strategies to handle all of this with clarity and confidence, thus helping you save your marriage (if that’s what you want to do).
Our transformative books deliver essential guidance that you can absorb in your own space and at your own pace. Instead of:
Dragging a reluctant or dishonest spouse to endless counseling sessions
Rehashing the same painful conversations week after week
Fighting in the car on the way home from appointments
Spending thousands on coaching “systems” padded with filler and fluff
Trying to ignore that sinking feeling as your spouse continues to focus on another person (or even themselves) over you
Lying awake for another night, panicked and stressed that you’re losing your spouse and you don’t know what to do about it…
…you can dive straight into condensed, practical, no-nonsense help that targets exactly what you’re going through. You can gain the advantage you need to change the way your spouse feels about you and your marriage, and you can do it privately, leading your spouse to wonder about the change in you. After all, wouldn’t it feel good to have your spouse wonder about you, instead of you always wondering about them?
The Marriage SOS “Take a Day”
Stop wasting time googling out-of-context and fragmented advice generated by AI. Stop scouring endless blogs looking for free advice. Stop investing thousands of dollars in glossy but ultimately useless coaching packages stuffed with filler and recycled advice. Stop spinning your wheels and getting nowhere! It’s time to focus and move forward.
Marriage SOS™ is built for real-life marriage conflict situations, especially when:
Your spouse is defensive, checked out, or “not sure what they want”
Your spouse is sending mixed messages or ambivalent
Your spouse is more interested in connecting with someone else than with you
Your spouse is self-focused
You feel like you’re doing this alone (which you probably are)
Why this works when other things haven’t.
Instead of waiting for your spouse to get on board, you can learn to:
Shift the dynamic even if they won’t participate
Stop destructive arguments before they spiral out of control
Respond strategically to lies, half-truths, and mixed signals
Calm your own anxiety so you can think clearly and act effectively
Create change in the marriage using strategic influence, not pressure or begging
If you’re tired of feeling powerless, Marriage SOS™ can give you the advantage and clarity you need to fight for your marriage using your head, not your heart.
Marriage SOS™ also works because it’s the product of a marriage author-expert with over 20 years of experience and a background in marital mediation (as opposed to counseling). That means every insight and strategy favors practicality and demonstrable results over theory and exploration.
One-on-One Intensive Phone Consults with the Author
Whether your marriage is facing a sudden crisis or the current state of affairs has been dragging on—and dragging you down—for a while now, the sooner you can acquire some new strategies to prompt a real change, the better.
Book a one-on-one 1-hour intensive phone consult with either Debra or Don. Together, you’ll dive in and see what can be done. Since the focus of this consult is on resolving, not rebooking, whoever you’re speaking with will strive to leave you with at least one “pivot-point” strategy—something that can begin to make a demonstrable change for the better in your situation. And all from the comfort of your car, couch or favorite park bench.
Services to Help End a Marriage Amicably
Separation & Divorce Mediation | A Couples Approach to a Dignified Divorce
So you’ve done your best to see whether your marital problems can be resolved, but you’ve decided they cannot be. You’ve decided the best choice for everyone moving forward is for you and your spouse to separate and divorce as amicably as possible. You’ll find help for that process here too.
AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE
Debra Macleod, BA, JD is a divorce and marital mediator with over 20 years of experience helping couples communicate and treat their marriage and family life with dignity, even if those things are changing. Her approach to separation and divorce mediation is uniquely couples-focused, as her own husband, Don Macleod, often co-mediates sessions. (All mediation services are conducted virtually.)
This couple-to-couple dynamic has proven effective during divorce mediation. It can foster an atmosphere of comfort, respect and understanding, while helping to reduce the risk of perceived bias due to gender.
Why Mediation?
Even if you are not a couple any longer, you still know your life – your kids, your preferences, your priorities and your deal-breakers – better than anyone, including a judge. If you are able to communicate respectfully and collaboratively with your spouse toward a common goal, it is far more likely that both of you will be happy with the outcome of your divorce… or at least happier than you would have been had a judge decided the terms of your divorce. On top of that, mediation is typically much quicker, less costly and far less antagonistic than court proceedings. Indeed, one of the goals of divorce mediation is to ensure that the divorce is as amicable as possible under the circumstances, something that the courts simply cannot prioritize in the same way. How you negotiate this separation and change in your life will have long-lasting, far-reaching implications in your life and the lives of your children.
Is Marriage SOS Right for You?
SAVING A MARRIAGE
You don't need or want counseling or psychotherapy; you've found that other methods of marriage help did nothing or make things worse
You prefer a plainspoken and "blunt" discussion about marriage issues, behaviors and possible solutions
You want detailed insights and strategies to choose from, not just general concepts or vague advice
You prefer issue-specific help, without religious content, that is private, convenient and fits your lifestyle
You want revealing, usable information delivered uninterrupted, not doled out over months or buried in filler material
You believe that conducting yourself with dignity and confidence is the best way to save your marriage and make it a marriage worth saving
ENDING A MARRIAGE
Both you and your spouse have agreed it is time to end your marriage
You and your spouse both understand the mediation process and are open to it
There are no contraindications to mediation (i.e. a power imbalance, lack of transparency regarding financial matters, etc.)
You and your spouse are willing to compromise and collaborate
You and your spouse tend to put your children's interests first
You and your spouse prefer to keep the details of your divorce private
You and your spouse prefer to negotiate your own agreements regarding issues such as child custody and parenting plans, asset distribution, who gets the dog, etc., rather than leaving these decisions to a judge