Hi, we’re Scot and Lisa.

We’ve been married since 1999 and are parents to a thirteen-year-old son and live in Southern California.  

We met in 1994, both fairly new Christians at the time, became great friends, dated, broke up for two years, got back together and got married.  A lot of couples we knew got married around the same time are no longer together. We’ve wondered what’s kept us together all these years. It certainly isn’t because we’re perfect and have done everything right. It’s actually the opposite. 

Given it some deeper thought, we realized we went through years of frustration, parenting differences and surviving in chaos.  Our dating years were dreamy. We went on picnics and gazed into each others eyes for hours.  Somehow we tend to believe that marriage is supposed to be the same way.  Romance, kisses, love, hugs, and rainbows floating around our heads. 

Marriage isn’t a fairy tale. It’s bringing two imperfect people together for a partnership. We’ve been  conditioned to believe that marriage is about a prince and princess living happily ever after.  

We teach you how to embrace  your imperfect spouse and marriage by letting go of unrealistic expectations.  Embracing imperfection doesn’t mean enabling unhealthy, ungodly or toxic behavior in your relationship. It means accepting the fact neither you nor spouse are imperfect. We teach Christian couples how to do marriage God’s way and not Disney’s fairy tale way.