Fix Your Life Before It's Broken

About the Book

Fix Your Life Before It´s Broken provides couples with a framework for learning about themselves, as individuals and as a couple. It consists of 50 chapters covering every imaginable aspect of married life. A short story introduces each chapter, then questions follow, to be answered yes or no, by each person. Sharing your answers will show you where you´re compatible, and where you can look forward to practicing your skills at negotiating and compromising.

It is the authors´ expectation that anyone who takes the time to "work" this book will be 500 times better equipped to mate than anyone not having done so. If you are willing to expose yourself to your intended mate, both of you will know who you are marrying.

"...This book compresses five years of living together into the time it takes to read the book and answer the questions...I would absolutely recommend this book..."  Sincerely, Michael E. Parr, M.D.

"...I find Fix Your Life amazingly on target...two courageous people need to do no more than open this book and peruse these pages."  Sincerely, Martin Berkowitz, Ph.D., ABPP

"...Given the influence of both my rabbi and my therapist, I know that there are no wrong answers to the questions life asks of us, only the answers that come from our own true selves...Fix Your Life is the owner´s manual for humans."  Very truly yours, Janine Oliker

This is a workbook for couples. There are chapters for every imaginable facet of married life. No unpleasant surprises, and a chance to enjoy getting to know each other.

About the Author

Ms. Grinnell, having slipped gracefully into her 83rd year, has had even more experience than one might assume. Her credentials are her life: she left high school at the age of fifteen to support her family, worked a variety of jobs, took a variety of classes, married twice, had two children, and endlessly pondered the primary relationship, marriage.

At the age of 56 her formal education began with the study of Victorian Literature at Wocerster College in Oxford, England. There she met and was befriended by Dame Iris Murdock, who advised her to keep on writing. Which she has done since.

The most heart-felt aim of this book is to provide a road map for couples planning to marry, so that their choices might be smart, and therefore their children be able to grow up in a happy, contented, stable home.

Dr. Waters received her undergraduate education at U.C. Berkely (Humanities Field Major), and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Denver, in Clinical Psychology. For the past 20+ years she has been practicing clinical psychology in Encino, California. She is happily mated, no children; cherishes people, work, and play, sometimes in that order.