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Some people are fix-it addicts. Fixing their marriages becomes the main focus of their lives. The problem with this is that relationships are like see-saws: the more one person does of something, the less the other one will do. If one person takes out the garbage all the time, the other partner won’t even think about garbage day. If one person remembers family members’ birthdays all the time, the other partner doesn’t have to think about birthdays. If one partner is the

Michele Weiner Davis gives a presentation at the 2010 Smart Marriages Conference about a therapist’s techniques in divorce prevention. Although strategy can play a major role in preventing divorce, Michele highlights that a marriage therapist’s biases, beliefs, perceptions, etc., play a greater role in a marriage’s outcome than anything else. Full transcript: Diane Sollee : Before Michele Weiner Davis came along…you saw her up here with me…she doesn’t look like a pioneer, I