{"id":1216,"date":"2011-11-21T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stayhappilymarried.com\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2011-11-21T09:00:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T14:00:24","slug":"how-to-live-happily-ever-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/2011\/11\/21\/how-to-live-happily-ever-after\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Live Happily Ever After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has your fairy tale marriage turned into a nightmare? Ripped from the pages of Jane Austen\u2019s <em>Pride &amp; Prejudice<\/em> we\u2019ve been made to believe that happily ever after is possible. People spend years looking for their perfect partner and come to find that all the spark and je ne sais quoi that had attracted them to their partners has now fizzled into an unhappy marriage. Family therapist, Lesli Doares, doesn\u2019t believe in having only two choices: either remaining in a miserable marriage or getting a divorce; Lesli believe in happily ever afters.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie Doares is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a private practice in Cary, NC. In her practice, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balancedfamily.com\">Balance Family Therapy<\/a>, her focus is on helping couples build strong, secure relationships. It is her belief that marriage is a different kind of relationship and, with the proper tools and techniques, most couples can have a happy and successful relationship. Lesli bring both her personal experience and professional training to her work with couples. Her passionate belief in marriage has led to the development of a five step theoretical approach that Lesli detailed in her book <a href=\"http:\/\/blueprintforalastingmarriage.com\/\"><em>Blueprint for a Lasting Marriage: How to Create Your Happily Ever After With More Intention, Less Work<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more Lesli Doares and her practice you can visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balancedfamily.com\">Balanced Family Therapy<\/a> website or call for an appointment at 919-924-0463. Lesli\u2019s book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blueprintforalastingmarriage.com\/\">Blueprint for a Lasting Marriage: How to Create Your Happily Ever After With More Intention, Less Work<\/a>, <\/em>is now available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blueprint-Lasting-Marriage-Happily-Intention\/dp\/1934509361\">Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has your fairy tale marriage turned into a nightmare? Ripped from the pages of Jane Austen\u2019s Pride &amp; Prejudice we\u2019ve been made to believe that happily ever after is possible. People spend years looking for their perfect partner and come to find that all the spark and je ne sais quoi that had attracted them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,16,21,23,33,48,55,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-appreciation","category-books","category-communication","category-compatibility","category-family","category-marriage","category-podcasts","category-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}