Hi, there!  We are Claire and Rachel Jantzen and we've been married for 25 years in 2010.  We started out like most couples, standing at the altar, making promises and believing that, having made them, we would have a great life.

The big picture?  We have a great life!  Two great kids, one of each, a new son-in-law and an enduring and satisfying love relationship.

The truth?  Nine months after our wedding day, we were done!  The very things that had attracted us to each other became the seeds of dissatisfaction in each other.  We were ready to call it quits.  But, we knew a couple across the hallway from us in the apartment block in which we lived, who had been married for 10 years.  They fought, yet they loved each other passionately. 

"Help!" we said.  And they helped.  We owe them our marriage.  That day, they became a sounding board for us, a place to be heard and to learn how to listen to each other. 

Over the years, we have put into practice the skills we picked up from our friends so that we can honestly say, it's better now than it was on our wedding day. 

• to help couples begin a great life together.
• to be an ongoing source of support as reality reshapes our initial image of married life.