40. A Divorce Lawyer’s Guide to Staying Married: Douglas C. Gardner
The Suzanne Venker Show
Suzanne Venker
4.9 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
You might think getting marriage advice from a divorce lawyer sounds odd. In fact, it makes all the sense in the world. After all, divorce lawyers are not that different from marriage counselors with respect to what they see in their offices. It’s true that divorce lawyers help couples get divorced rather than stay together, but they nevertheless have a unique window into the lives of countless marriages.
Douglas C. Gardner is the author of Amazing Intentions: Can a Divorce Attorney Save Your Marriage? Gardner has worked with clients in thousands of divorce cases and has seen first hand the patterns and problems that lead to the demise of relationships.
What has Gardner learned through his involvement in thousands of family law cases and millions of dollars in legal fees is that the reason marriages fail is from lack of communication regarding expectations, as well as the inability to see issues through one’s spouse’s view of the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Broadcasting from the Hairsillin corporate offices, it's the Suzanne Venker Show, where men and women are equal in value, but wildly different by nature. |
| 0:16.3 | Drop the junk you've been fed from the culture and join us here every week as we help you and the people you love feel secure in your beliefs about what you know is right and confident in your desire to |
| 0:24.9 | speak your mind. You might think getting marriage advice from a divorce lawyer sounds odd. In fact, |
| 0:30.9 | it makes all the sense in the world. After all, divorce lawyers are not that different from marriage |
| 0:35.4 | counselors with respect to what they see in their offices. It's true that divorce lawyers help couples get divorced rather than to stay |
| 0:42.3 | together, but they nevertheless have a unique window into the lives of countless marriages. |
| 0:47.6 | My guest today is divorce attorney Douglas Gardner, author of Amazing Intentions, the |
| 0:53.1 | divorce attorney who wants to save your marriage. |
| 0:56.0 | Douglas has handled thousands of divorce cases and has seen firsthand the patterns and problems |
| 1:00.0 | that lead to the demise of marriages. What he has learned is that the main reason marriages |
| 1:04.3 | fail is a lack of communication regarding expectations, as well as the inability to see issues |
| 1:10.0 | through one's spouse's view |
| 1:11.6 | of the world. |
| 1:12.6 | Douglas lives in Arizona and was recently voted Arizona's number one divorce and family law attorney. |
| 1:17.6 | He has been married for 24 years and has five children. |
| 1:21.6 | Welcome to the show, Douglas. |
| 1:23.6 | Great to be here. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:25.6 | Thanks for coming. I'm so excited to talk to you. I've been wanting to do this for a while because this angle to me is so, it's unique and yet it makes all the sense in the world. |
| 1:35.9 | And I don't know why we don't hear more from divorce attorneys, but you might have a thought on that. |
| 1:40.9 | So I'm going to begin by asking you why you call yourself a recovering divorce attorney. |
| 1:47.4 | Sure. I make my living doing divorce. I enjoy doing divorce. But sometimes, you know, I mean, I believe in marriage and I believe that people will be happier if they can figure out how to make their marriage work as a necessity. Some people need a divorce attorney, but, you know, I just, I guess in doing it |
| 2:07.3 | over many years, I just felt like I was taking away enough. I needed to put something back |
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