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Coco Warner Reporting With ten million plus members, eHarmony.com knows a thing or two about helping people FIND love. But now they want to help people STAY in love.
EHarmony.com says that an average of 90 people who meet on their website get married each month! And after fielding questions about marriage for the last few years, the company has now decided not only do they want to help you meet that special someone, they want to help you stay married to him, too.
These couples have only just begun. So now the question is, how will they continue?
Dr. Neil Clark Warren/Co-founder eHarmony.com: "Every marriage needs to stay well. It needs to work on the skills and develop the abilities to deal effectively with the challenges of marriage."
And with more and more people meeting online, the internet now seems like the natural place to get some help with your relationship. At least that's what EHarmony is counting on.
Dr. Neil Clark Warren/Co-founder eHarmony.com: "We're having 90 of our members get married every day on eHarmony, so we think about marriage all the time."
Just this month this website for singles launched a new "Marriage Wellness" program for those people who have taken the plunge.
Dr. Neil Clark Warren/Co-founder eHarmony.com: "We need to help people become more effective conflict resolvers, because you can resolve conflict quickly, thoroughly and it just sets you free from that whole conflict."
Married couples are asked to answer 300 plus questions to determine areas they need to work on. They then receive a personalized analysis for their relationship.
Dr. Neil Clark Warren/Co-founder eHarmony.com: "Then we need to help people talk more effectively, listen more effectively, get their sex lives better."
Doctor Warren says almost half of marriages end in divorce, and in couples who stay together half of them have at least one partner who is unhappy.
And he hopes eHarmony's new feature will help all the couples who began on their website, grow on their website.
Dr. Neil Clark Warren/Co-founder eHarmony.com: "They're going to go and see a site that has a lot of resources available to them and has a lot of hints and clues about how they can do a whole lot better."
Dr. Warren says the site is meant to help couples be pro-active-- to prevent the minor issues a couple may have at the beginning of their relationship from escalating into bigger issues.
And coming up tomorrow, I'll tell you about a class that hopes to improve the state of marriage in Utah.
