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Contributed by: mimi pockross on 5/4/2007

A Mother's Labor of Love

When I watch Marcie Pregulman, I am not only in awe, but I get very tired.. One of her days might go something like this: work out at 5:00 in the morning before attending a 7:30 am meeting, conduct business on cell regarding Love Your Relationship, her new company, prepare for interviews to be conducted for a DU grant on which she is currently employed,, pick up her sick daughter at high school, shop for clothes for her son's upcoming bar mitzvah, cross town for another meeting, talk to another daughter away at school and congratulate her about a test on which she did well, stop home to meet her son so that they can do errands and then work on his school assignments, and then after the kids are settled in for the evening, work until 12:00 or 1:00. in the morning. That does not include stopping everything for holiday vacations and trotting off to conferences.

How to keep it all in balance and have something left for one's self continues to

be a quandary in this day and age, but Marcie balances it well even as a single

mom. She is there for her children, yet she squeezes in an exciting

entrepreneurial life for herself. So many women today opt either for a full-time

position and fight with the revolving door nannies or they stay at home and

have a five o'clock playgroup and drink wine and watch their toddlers during

that doomsday hour around dinner, but Marcie combines both with grace and

ingenuity.

Marcie's past history prepared her well for the task. After graduating from college with a degree in psychology, she sought the excitement of New York City and landed a job at a publishing company. There she met her husband and then soon after moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was there that she became interested in the combination of marketing and psychology when she took a job with the International Center for the Disabled.

Than came the kids. First she freelanced as a marketing consultant and then gave up work as so many of us do, while the kids were growing up. She started volunteering for the Children's Museum where she met June Scobey Rogers, the widow of astronaut Dick Scobey who was the commander of the fatal Challenger space ship. When she was asked by June to help first with a memorial to the Challenger in Chattanooga that was a simulation of an astronaut center and then to set up copies of the museum all over the world, she found the research fun, interesting and rewarding and so after her next move which was to Denver, she needed to continue to "have something to do" that would be rewarding. First she started a small business in which she brought products back from her travels and sold them at home parties. Then she went to work at a women's boutique on Pearl Street.

But it was when she met Dr. Howard Markman, a professor of psychology at the University of Denver and a nationally recognized relationship expert that the wheels really began to turn.. Howard was one of the original founders of PREP, a company that teaches trainers how to teach others to reclaim their marriages. Just off of her own unhappy marriage, Marcie suggested to Howard that perhaps they could apply the same principles, information and activities taught to PREP trainers and work directly with couples rather than with a "middleman." In 2006 Love Your Relationship was "conceived". Now on their fourth event, Marcie says it has been a truly rewarding experience. "You can really see the difference" (after the weekend is completed). "People are so grateful."

There are many plans on the table for future sessions with themes and different locations. .

Marcy says that many couples attest to the success of Love Your Relationship. She says that from her point of view, it's not just a business. It's also "a labor of love." She wants to help people do something "I wasn't able to do."

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