Marriage education is an approach to preventing marital distress and breakdown based on the premise that couples can learn how to build and maintain successful, stable marriages. Couples can learn how to increase the behaviors that make a marriage successful and decrease those associated with marital distress and divorce. Learn more about marriage education here: http://www.healthymarriageinfo.org/marriage_ed/whatis.cfm.

Find a marriage education class:

• Click here to learn about what you should look for in a marriage education class: http://www.healthymarriageinfo.org/marriage_ed/finding.cfm
• Use this online directory from Smart Marriages© to find a marriage education class near you: http://www.smartmarriages.com/app/Directory.Home.

• This page from the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center contains advice on how to keep your marriage strong, such as cheap date ideas and recommendations on how to use counseling and marriage education: http://newstage.healthymarriageinfo.org/indiv_couple/keepstrong.cfm
• This page from the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center provides advice on dealing with the leading causes of stress in marriages: http://www.healthymarriageinfo.org/indiv_couple/managestress.cfm
• This article, “Marriage: Your First Year” deals with the concerns newlyweds have. It was written by the Mississippi State Cooperative Extension Services http://newstage.healthymarriageinfo.org/docs/marriagefirstyr.pdf
• Alabama A&M and Auburn Universities created a handbook to help couples build great marriages. Download it here: http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/H/HE-0829/HE-0829.pdf.

  View the "What's Your Legacy?" PSAs below.

  Listen to the radio ad, "Bragging Rights," here.

  View the three print ads here. (pdf, 3 pages, 900KB)

  View the outdoor ad here. (pdf, 1 page, 108KB)

  
  
  

• Visit the African American Marriage Wall
  
  
• What is a Healthy Marriage?
  
  
• Preparing for Marriage
  
  
• Strengthening Your Marriage
  
  
• Radio PSAs
  
  
• Print PSAs
  
  
• Outdoor PSAs