2026 cohortJune 30
Six consecutive weeks online, two hours per week, led live by a PAIRS Master Trainer.
Practical Application of Intimate Relationship Skills
Because love shouldn't be guesswork.
And no one should have to figure it out alone.
PAIRS is an evidence-based, experiential approach to strengthening communication, deepening connection and creating more loving, lasting relationships. Developed over nearly half a century, it has helped hundreds of thousands of people learn the skills that make love last.
Start here
Find your path to PAIRS.
Whether your relationship is in crisis, coasting or thriving, there is a PAIRS program built for where you are right now.
Couples & individuals
PAIRS Essentials
Twelve hours of practical skills for communication, conflict and closeness. Learn with a partner or on your own.
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Fathers
IronBond Fathers
A free, trauma-informed 24-hour skills workshop and coaching program for dads in South Florida.
Meet IronBond
Veterans & military families
Warrior to Soul Mate
Relationship skills for those who have served, delivered with VA partners and PAIRS-trained facilitators.
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Professionals
Training & certification
Become a licensed PAIRS Trainer and bring evidence-based relationship education to your community.
See the pathwayWhy PAIRS
Most relationships don't fall apart because people stop caring. They fall apart because people don't know what they don't know.
PAIRS calls this unconscious incompetence: operating in our most important relationships, as partners, parents and friends, without skills we were never taught. Not in school. Not growing up. Not even in therapy. PAIRS gently walks you through becoming consciously competent, step by step. Because when we know better, we can love better.
What you'll learn
Tools anyone can use, starting this week.
Each PAIRS program is guided by a trained facilitator who introduces a practical tool, shows how it works in everyday life and invites you to practice it in ways that feel natural and comfortable.
Daily Temperature Reading
A five-step ritual to stay emotionally connected even on the busiest days: appreciations, new information, puzzles, concerns with requests, and wishes, hopes and dreams.
Good Talking, Good Listening
Confide honestly without blame, and listen with empathy even when it is hard to hear. Skills that turn frustration into understanding.
Emptying the Emotional Jug
A safe way to express anger, sadness, fear and longing before they build up, making room for joy, love and happiness.
Fair Fight for Change
A clear, dignified path for resolving conflict without sarcasm, withdrawal or power struggles.
Understanding emotional triggers
Recognize the patterns that sabotage connection, where they came from, and how to change them.
Bonding and intimacy
Meet each other’s needs for the combination of emotional and physical closeness, a lifelong, biologically based need.
2026 PAIRS Essentials online
Six weeks. Two hours a week. A lifetime of benefits.
Classes meet live online for two hours a week over six consecutive weeks, led by PAIRS Master Trainers. Tuition is $495 per connection and includes all materials; limited scholarships are available.
2026 cohortSeptember 15
Six consecutive weeks online, two hours per week, led live by a PAIRS Master Trainer.
2026 cohortNovember 17
Six consecutive weeks online, two hours per week, led live by a PAIRS Master Trainer.
PAIRS apps
Meet Yodi, your relationship coach for the moments in between.
Built on decades of PAIRS research, Yodi brings the Daily Temperature Reading, Emptying the Emotional Jug and other PAIRS tools to your phone with on-demand, emotionally intelligent guidance, 24/7.
Real people, real results
What graduates say.
This weekend has been ground breaking for my husband and me. There are issues we have been dealing with for 19 years. Two of these issues seem to be starting to be resolved just in these few days. I am a cancer survivor and he suffers from PTSD from being sent to Iraq. We have found a closeness we haven't had in years, just from being at this seminar.
We were stuck in the same arguments for years. PAIRS gave us a new language, and hope.
This should be taught in every relationship. It saved ours.
I'm going home a different man. My son's gonna know his dad. And he's gonna know I love him, not just with words, but with presence.
PAIRS Foundation
Our mission, since 1983.
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. We accomplish our mission by developing and delivering evidence-based best practices in marriage, family and couples education, conducting research, and training instructors worldwide.
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For a conversation about the benefits of PAIRS, we're a call away.
Ask about class dates, scholarships, professional training or bringing PAIRS to your organization.
Call about classes
(786) 503-8103Questions about enrollment, dates and scholarships. Main office: (844) 724-7748
Office
PAIRS Foundation
4429 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, FL 33081
Classes are offered online and in person in South Florida.