Marriage counseling that has a strong bias toward staying together. Discouraging cohabitation, unless both partners plan to marry within months and have picked a date. They've been married for 35 years and raised four children through tense career changes, financial strains, and occasional resentments over differing workloads. At one point they tried counseling, which helped a bit. The decade of the Eighties was not good for us.
Love is a decision.
It's not that you wake up every morning and feel so in love. You have to work at it. There are, of course, unwed couples who argue that pro-marriage crusaders want to turn back the clock on social change out of nostalgia for a golden age that probably never existed. About half comes from the university, which gives space and pays the salaries of the directors and one support staffer. The rest comes from private grants.