Bill’s Story
I began developing the idea for my Romance by Choice program over 30 years ago after a failed marriage at a very young age. When my marriage broke up, I started looking for answers to the question… how does something that starts out so joyously crash and burn into a rubble of disaster and heartbreak?
I began by reading about love and relationships. Then I started interviewing both men and women about why their relationships had failed. After some time patterns started to emerge. Then interviews became consulting sessions, on how their relationships began, why they fell apart, what they did before, during and after, and how they moved on.
I began to develop the “OUTLINE Method” as a means to discovering who and what you are looking for. The “OUTLOOK Method” was developed from my many years of studying Positive Mental Attitude, Feng Shui, Conscious language, The Science of Deliberate Creation and other new age programs.
Other methods were developed after many years of starting and working as a facilitator for single parent groups. This provided a basis for much research and development for my program, focusing on the difference between what men and woman need from each other and other key insights that I gleaned. It also became obvious that there was a great lack of romance in so many relationships and in many cases this led to the demise of these marriages. The lack of romance comes in some cases from not knowing, from feeling it is not appropriate, from family upbringing, or from lack of time because of career or family pressures. Many times partners have sought out romance with other people rather than their spouse because it was easier than….putting the time and energy into their own relationship.
I also have always been a believer in the power of music. I love to listen to the lyrics of songs, because so much emotion and romance is communicated through songs. I knew I wanted to include music in my course/program as a way to teach how a romantic relationship might feel. When my recording engineer came up with the idea to place the music underneath my speaking the Romance by Choice program moved up to a whole new level of impact and quality.
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