Do Marriage Better: 7 Simple Shifts for a Deeper Connection

by Dave Willis, Ashley Willis

SIMPLE SHIFTS → EXTRAORDINARY CHANGESYou never expected marriage to be this complicated. Yes, you’re committed to each other, but life together can feel messy and more difficult than it should be. How can you rediscover the love and connection you both long for?

Whether you’ve been together twenty years or twenty minutes, Do Marriage Better offers fresh hope for your relationship. Bestselling authors, speakers, and marriage coaches Dave and Ashley Willis explore seven key areas in which every couple can grow and

CommunicationSexFinancesHealthFamilyBurdensLegacy
Inside this must-read marriage resource, you’ll find a practical study guide for every section and access to engaging video content to support your journey together. Check out the Do Marriage Better audiobook for exclusive bonus content!

243 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 20, 2025

About the author

Dave Willis began his TEFL career working overseas as a teacher in Ghana and Cyprus. He joined the British Council and worked for twenty years as an English Language Officer in Iran, Singapore and London. From 1990 to 2000 he worked as a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for English Language Studies, at Birmingham University, working mainly on MA TEFL/TESOL programmes.

He has published widely on discourse analysis, the subject of his PhD thesis at Birmingham, on the description of grammar and lexis for ELT, and on task-based methodology. He is now retired from full time work, but maintains an active interest in ELT by researching, writing and travelling widely as a consultant and to international conferences. Currently his main area of interest is how to integrate grammar and lexis into a task-based approach.