I grew up in the forties and fifties during a time when there were not very many options available to most women. After high school, I became a secretary and was looking forward to falling in love, getting married and raising a family. When I was twenty, I fell in love with a man and six months later we were married. I also naively assumed that he wanted to have children just like me. It soon became apparent that I was wrong about all of this. About six years and one child later, I discovered that my husband had betrayed me in a very major way and shortly after that we were divorced. I was devastated and was so bitter that I was unable to trust and love another man for the next 13 years. During the first 6 years following my divorce I was only able to have superficial relationships with men. Then I discovered Scientology and decided not to have anymore superficial relationships but I was not yet able to develop a normal love relationship with commitment like I wanted because I was still stuck in the emotional bitterness from my first marriage.

     Six years after discovering Scientology I received some Scientology counseling which is called auditing, and this resulted in an incredible release of negative emotional charge which had been blocking me from forming any new love relationship with a man. About six months later I met, fell in love with and married Mike who is a wonderful man. We have had a dynamic marriage for more than fourteen years.

     One of the most important parts of our marriage is our ability to communicate. It's like comparing night and day when comparing the communication in my first marriage to my marriage to Mike. Because of our high level of ability to communicate, Mike and I have been able to make sure that our goals and purposes in life are in good alignment and that we continue to take the steps which will result in us achieving our goals.

     What we have learned and gained from Scientology has been indispensable to our successful marriage. Without the knowledge we have gained from Scientology our marriage would not have been as successful and wonderful as it has been. Based on both of our track records prior to our becoming Scientologists, we never would have gotten married and if we had, our marriage most probably would have failed.