Marcia Naomi Berger (née Fisch), MSW, LCSW, leads dynamic marriage and communication workshops and is a popular speaker at conferences. In addition to working as a clinical social worker with a private psychotherapy practice in San Rafael, California, she’s taught continuing education classes for therapists at the University of California Berkeley Extension, Alliant International University, and online and in person for various professional associations. While employed by the City and County of San Francisco, she held senior-level positions in child welfare, alcoholism treatment, and psychiatry. She also served as a lecturer on the clinical faculty at the University of California, School of Medicine, and as executive director of Jewish Family and Children’s Services of the East Bay. Berger lives in Marin County, California, with her husband, David Berger. She gives their weekly marriage meetings major credit for their lasting happiness together, which inspired her to write her first book, Marriage Meetings for Lasting Love: 30 Minutes a Week to the Relationship You’ve Always Wanted. She may be contacted at mnaomiberger@gmail.com or via www.marriagemeetings.com.

Marcia Naomi Berger’s parents divorced. She, a longtime commitmentphobe, stayed single for a long time. Now happily married for more than thirty-three years, this psychotherapist and clinical social worker’s mission is to help others create marriages that fulfill them—emotionally, spiritually, physically, and materially.

Women who genuinely want marriage can succeed. They just need to learn how. In Marriage Minded, Berger offers up practical tips for making this wish a reality in a friendly A-to-Z format with warmth, wisdom, and humor. With her as your guide, you’ll learn how to overcome obstacles, meet men, date constructively, and create a strong, fulfilling union, as well as enjoy inspiring real-life stories showing how single women of all ages ended up happily married.

Studies confirm many benefits of marrying, such as longevity, health, happiness, and overall wellbeing. Practical, useful, and easy to apply, this book—written with single women in mind, since that’s what Berger knows best—sensitively guides readers toward creating the lasting, loving union they’ve always wanted.