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Dr. Joe Beam

Founder, Marriage Helper

Joe Beam is an internationally known authority on love, marriage, and the forces that pull couples apart and back together. He is a best-selling author and the founder of Marriage Helper, and the method he built has helped tens of thousands of couples in crisis.

Dr. Joe Beam

A method born from his own marriage

Joe tells his own story openly, because it is the reason Marriage Helper exists. He and his wife, Alice, divorced, and then reconciled and remarried. Living through the loss and the recovery sent him searching for what actually moves a marriage in crisis, instead of the well-meaning advice that quietly makes things worse. What he learned became the method taught across everything Marriage Helper does today.

He has spent more than three decades teaching it, writing about it, and speaking on it, and couples that everyone else had written off started coming home.

An authority on limerence

Joe is widely recognized for his work on limerence, the involuntary, temporary infatuation that can grip a married person who never planned to stray. His contribution to understanding it is referenced in the Wikipedia entry on limerence. It is one of the ideas that most changes how a hurting spouse responds, because naming limerence changes everything about what to do next.

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Beyond Marriage Helper

As a speaker and best-selling author, Joe has been featured by national media including the Today Show, Good Morning America, MSNBC, and Focus on the Family. Across all of it, the message has stayed the same: a marriage worth saving is worth fighting for, even when it looks impossible, and even when only one spouse is willing to begin.

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