Marriage Can Be Forever--Preparation Counts! (4th Ed.)

“The exercises in the book were great at helping us explore different aspects of ourselves, our potential life together, and the family we hoped to build. It allowed us to discuss important matters, such as children, finances, and values, that we may not have otherwise had the courage or awareness to address. It also focused our attention on our own character and that of our potential partner. It was an indispensable tool to help us make one of the most important decisions of our lives.” A happily married couple

Susanne M. Alexander is a relationship/marriage educator and coach. She is president of Marriage Transformation LLC, which publishes books and offers online courses through her Transformation Learning Center. She is certified as a Marriage Facilitator to offer couple’s assessments through Prepare-Enrich®, and she is certified as a character specialist for individuals with the Character Foundations Assessment™. She has completed Level 1 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Susanne facilitates relationship preparation, marriage preparation, and marriage strengthening with people of all ages globally based on the Marriage Transformation books and materials and provides coaching to individuals and couples. The creative purpose of the company is to dynamically empower individuals and couples to engage in skillful, character-based communications and actions that contribute to excellent relationships and happy, unified marriages and families that serve others. Susanne is a member of the National Alliance for Relationship and Marriage Education. Susanne is the author or coauthor of over 20 books. She has appeared on television, radio, and podcasts and has been quoted as an expert in many online and print publications, and in these books: Where to Seat Aunt Edna? And 500 Other Great Wedding Tips and Renewing Your Wedding Vows. Susanne is a journalist and writer and has a BA in Communications from Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio, USA. Her articles have been published in BahaiBlog.net, BahaiTeachings.org, Upjourney.com, Yourtango.com, Simplemarriage.net, Match.com, Marriage Partnership, Strengthening Marriage, Bahá’í Parent, Newsweek, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, Crain’s Cleveland Business, Writer’s Digest, and Massage Magazine among others. Susanne has been a Bahá’í most of her life, serves as a tutor of study circles, and has served on several Local Spiritual Assemblies. For eight years, she led a global faculty team that pioneered Bahá’í-based online relationship and marriage education through the Wilmette Institute, an agency of the United States National Spiritual Assembly. Susanne was married at age 19, had a daughter at age 21, and divorced at age 40 after a very difficult marriage. She married a second time, happily, and founded the Marriage Transformation company with her husband Craig Farnsworth. He died of brain cancer shortly before their tenth wedding anniversary. She married a third time, happily, and lives with her husband Phil Donihe in Tennessee in the United States. She has had five adult stepchildren between the latter two marriages, and she has several grandchildren.