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The PAIRS Foundation, Inc., develops curricula and programs designed to reconcile married couples and prevent divorce. It is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation based in Broward County, Florida. The company was originally established in Virginia as PAIRS, Ltd. in 1983 and as The PAIRS Foundation, Inc. in Florida in 2000. In 2010, PAIRS, Ltd. formally merged into The PAIRS Foundation, Inc.
PAIRS Foundation owns copyright to marriage and relationship education programs that are taught by instructors worldwide who are trained, certified and licensed by the foundation and to the trademark, "skills for successful relationships".
PAIRS Foundation's mission is to "teach those attitudes, emotional understandings, and behaviors that nurture and sustain healthy relationships and to make this knowledge broadly available on behalf of a safer, saner, more loving world."
The PAIRS 120-hour semester course was developed in 1975 by marriage and family therapist Lori Heyman Gordon as a graduate program for counseling students at American University in Washington, D.C.; it was one of the first comprehensive educational programs in the United States that sought to reduce marriage and family breakdown through Relationship Education. The course integrated and work by Virginia Satir, Daniel Casriel, Murray Bowen, James Framo, George Bach, Gordon and others.
You’re so, so full of it, girl
It’s so much you can’t deal with it
Ya’ keep spinning around
And spinning around
And spinning around
And listen, yeah
And yeah, you’re loving it
And baby shake your thang with it
Ya’ keep turning around
And turning around
And turning around
And listen
It’s happening,
Ya’ bubblin’
Ya’ jigglin’
Yes I’m getting in
Just ease your mind and keep it coming
I’m stuttering, damn,
You’re wigglin’, girl
I’m suffering, yeah,
I’m staying in
I stay behind you while we’re battling
Some peeps fakin’ it
Yes some peeps still hating it
But I can’t live without it
Can’t live without it
Can be about it, can be
And now you’re diggin’ it
And papa told you so, you didn’t even know
And you know what to do,
And you know what to do
Now baby let’s do it, Let’s go
It’s happening,
Ya’ bubblin’
Ya’ jigglin’
Yes I’m getting in
Just ease your mind and keep it coming
I’m stuttering,
You’re wigglin’, girl
I’m suffering, yeah,
I’m staying in
I stay behind you while we’re battling
I’d like to dance with ya’
Stay right here don’t go,
‘cause we’re gonna rise together, yeah
I can feel it baby,
Something lifting me up and
I said
I feel like God has praised me
To put a little funk in his cup
And he said
It’s alright, just take a ride
To paradise
Just enjoy yourself
That’s the meaning of life
It’s happening,
Ya’ bubblin’
Ya’ jigglin’
Yes I’m getting in
Just ease your mind and keep it coming
I’m stuttering,
You’re wigglin’, girl
I’m suffering,
I’m staying in
I stay behind you while we’re battling