Click the Glasses for Video      “We, Ron and Nancy, come from two very different walks of life.”  Ron is from a family of six children and Nancy was raised as an only child.  We met in a courtroom 45 years ago, the day that Ron was released from several years in prison.  Nancy was there with her pastor who attended to be a character witness for Ron, if one was needed.           Ron became a Christian behind the walls of the Tennessee State Penitentiary.  Nancy was raised in a religious home.  Ron was an unwanted inconvenience and financial liability to his parents, and Nancy was a very much wanted child.  Ron was abandoned after birth by his mother due to illness and missing his father who was working away from home in the war effort of WW II.  He was raised by his nine year old sister.  Nancy’s father was absent during her mother’s pregnancy (WW II) and for the first few years of her life. The prolonged absence of her father had long- reaching effects.           When parents were at home, Ron’s Dad was angry and abusive toward Ron’s older brother, and Mother was busy serving the needs of her husband and family.  Ron was ignored, sent off to the movies by himself and became a loner.  When Nancy’s Dad came home from war, he brought his Master Sergeant tactics with him, and ruled the roost!  Life was confused by an affectionate, yet emotionally abusive father – a man she really didn’t know.  Both Ron and Nancy were victims of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, resulting in feelings of worthlessness, fear, anger and sadness.           They honestly believed that theirs was a “match made in heaven,” but as they say, “The day we married, we lit an inferno that nearly destroyed us and our daughters as well.”  Fortunately sheer determination to make the marriage work sent them back to school for a degree in Marriage and Family Therapy.  It was during that experience and acquisition of knowledge that they began to investigate and understand that their beginning had set up the marital challenges that nearly sent them to the divorce court.  Further education increased their knowledge, and application of it to themselves set them on their journey to wholeness.           Since 1991, Rockeys have traveled the world teaching seminars designed to awaken people to the causes of dysfunction and to offer tools for resolving old issues, thus renewing the mind and creating positive futures.  Their marriage is a model for those who are discouraged and feel that their marriage is without hope.  Their recovery programs, Binding the Wounds, The Journey, Journey to Nai (truth) for teens and Created for Success (marriage) have been life-saving to thousands around the world.           Their book, Belonging (Overcoming rejection and discovering the freedom of acceptance) is now translated in seven languages and continues to help thousands around the world.           Rockeys teach in a down-to-earth-fashion, using their story and the story of others as examples of what people suffer and how they have recovered, and late-breaking science to corroborate the principles they teach.