The most critical life decision most therapists deal with in their everyday practice is helping couples decide whether to dissolve a marriage or try to save it. Nevertheless, few of us have had specific training in assisting an ambivalent couple on the brink of divorce. In this workshop, you'll learn a step-by-step protocol for offering clients a "consultation for decision-making." We'll explore how to help the partner wanting to leave to examine the decision with integrity, while helping the other partner to both maximize the possibility that the marriage will remain intact and prepare for changes if the divorce happens. The protocol provides time for reflective decision-making and challenges each partner's idea that the other "will never change." We'll pay particular attention to helping you become crystal clear about your own values regarding marriage and divorce, whatever they might be, and how they impact your work with couples on the brink of divorce.