With funding in part from the Family Law section of the Oklahoma Bar Association, she is part of a grass-roots network seeking separate relationships courses for younger and older Oklahoma students. Lynne Gold-Bikin is a divorced divorce lawyer who wants to put herself out of business. This is not touchy-feely stuff. This is real life. Partners is in 31 states.
Students stress they learn as much about themselves as about relationships.
Most of the time you put on a fake face in public just to impress others. Defenders of skills-based marital and relationships training stress that the lessons learned can be applied in a wide arena, with parents, siblings, teachers, peers and bosses. You can go through your life being totally smart. . . . But you have to be with people no matter where you go. You need to have things go smoothly instead of having all these little fights.