Lesli Doares is a Marriage Coach who has a passion for creating happy and successful marriages as well as reducing the chance of divorce. It all started for Lesli when a 5 year old girl walked into her office for anxiety treatment. Come to find out, her parents had divorced when she was 2 years old and they had been using her as the rope in their ongoing game of tug-of-war. It was at that moment when Lesli realized she had find a way to make sure divorce never happened. It is this little girl who inspired Lesli to do for other children what she was not able to do for her. Lesli is the author of Blueprint for a Lasting Marriage: How to Create Your Happily Ever After With More Intention, Less Work. Her main focus is helping couples build strong relationships using her simple five step approach that will help them create their ideal marriage. Lesli Doares received her M.S. in Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1991. She has pursued further postgraduate and clinical work in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at East Carolina University.