High school sweethearts Bruce and Loralee North married in 1990 and they have eight children together. They’ve worked through many heartaches, including parenting, job loss, bankruptcy, sexual struggles, their parents’ deaths, and arguing about the same things over and over. If you’re looking for real life experience in your instructors, look no further.

Bruce became a Certified Family Life Educator in 2010. He has always been passionate about relationships and love, because he wanted to be a better husband for Loralee. He taught the “How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk” program for Utah State University Extension and later taught several programs of his own before developing Rewrite Your Marriage with Loralee. Bruce and Loralee co-host the “Rewrite Your Marriage” podcast (launched December 2023) and teach this course together.

Bruce and Loralee forged a program that draws on the best knowledge of couples therapy research within a Christian-based framework. They tested their program for two years, listening to the struggles and triumphs of seven seprate rounds of couples’ focus groups. Each round lasted several months, and started with a new set of three to five participating couples each time. Ultimately they honed their material into “Rewrite Your Marriage.”

Bruce and Loralee’s own marriage was not an instant success. Like all healthy marriages, they had to learn basic principles and how to use them. Together, they teach and illustrate these principles with example stories from their own marriage and show exactly how their troubles became triumphs. 

Bruce and Loralee are helping other couples create cherished, thriving marriages. They are sharing their experiences in saving their own marriage. They teach what works.