We're all familiar with "happily ever after" and "a fairytale marriage" -- but we all know how the story really ends. Just in time to coincide with all those June brides, we present Unhappily Married by America.

You, the viewer, will decide which of our four couples should give their marriage another shot -- and which one will win the all-expenses-paid trip to Reno! Each week, we'll see the trials and tribulations of these couples as they struggle to rediscover the love which originally bound them. We'll also see how they work through their conflicts with our counselor, Dr. Sylvia Brothers -- and you, the viewer, will decide whether or not our couples have resolved their conflicts.

Meet the Contestants

Kerry and Dan, married 4 years.

These fun-loving Marylanders have baseball in common -- they met at a friend's tailgating party. But now, they're facing one of the most critical crossroads any couple can come to: whether or not to add to their family of Orioles fans.

Kerry, 32, likes being married for the most part, but stresses that she's not sure she's ready to take that next step with David. "For God's sake, the man still sleeps with a Chococat doll -- there's no way he's ready to raise a kid," she reasons. "We're talking about a grown man who thinks Disney World is the perfect romantic vacation and calls me 'Kerry-berry.' Yeah, my boss really liked that one when he answered my extension one day. And he just won't let up -- it's 'Your clock is ticking' this, and 'You'd make a super mother' that. I'm just, like -- it's just easier not to talk to him anymore. I haven't told him that I'm using back-up birth control because I just don't want to deal."

Dan, 34, has always dreamed of life as a husband and father. "Taking the little guy to Pop Warner, teaching him how to fish -- I just can't wait to be a dad." He loves Kerry, and says his marriage to Kerry is idyllic. "She's just stressed out because her career is so demanding. Once she has a baby and stays home, she'll be sane again. I'm looking forward to a lot of romance while we try."

Stephanie and Martin, married 18 years.

The proud parents of Mason (12), Madison (8) and Marbury (5), Stephanie and Martin are longtime marrieds who have absorbed the shocks and stresses of everyday life without taking couple time together.

Stephanie, 42, says she feels trapped in a no-win situation. "He's nowhere near the man I married anymore. For all I know he ate the man I married. We used to do things together, but now it's all me, ferrying the kids from soccer to scouts to baseball to piano lessons while he does God-knows-what at work and drools to ESPN on the couch at home. I feel totally alone here. I can't do it all myself anymore."

Martin, 41, wonders if he and Stephanie somehow unlearned how to talk to each other. "God, if I have to hear her yammer on about how tired she is, how broke we are, how much weight I've gained, how stressed she is, how much trouble the kids are -- she wonders why I spend my weekends kicking back? Tell her to get her ass out of the minivan -- and by the way, I'm not the only one who can't fit into the same clothes I was married in -- and commute three hours a day to a job where some smart-assed middle manager gets his kicks out of bullying people during departmental meetings, and she'll understand why I'm so tired. A divorce is first prize, right? Nevada's not a community property state?"

Jordan and Ashley, married 2 years.

These hard-charging overachievers agree that the computer at their Manhattan matchmaking service worked perfectly when putting them together. Despite their 80-hour workweeks, both Jordan and Ashley yearn for more quality time together.

Jordan, 36, struggles to balance marriage with a growing roster of clients at her literary agency. "Yeah, it's been hard setting priorities, but -- can you hang on a minute? -- okay, yeah. No, the book has to be in this week, it's already going to be a rush getting Eggers and Coupland to give it blurbs before a promotional push in October, and if we don't get this to market by Christmas, someone at Knopf will be after me for their soft fourth quarter. Look, I've got to -- hi, you there? As I was saying, I laid out our plan for spending more time together in a memo last week. He'll get back to me."

Ashley, 36, also finds that carving time for a personal life amid a growing number of responsibilities as a consultant is challenging. "She said what? Okay, yeah. Memo ... did she email it? If it's paper, I think Stell -- that's the personal organizer I hired, the woman's a genius, totally cleared my office of clutter -- let me ask Stell where this memo is. Wait, I've got Jordan's cell. That's good communication, right? Let me ask Stell where she put my phone."

Jennifer and David, married 8 months.

Last June, they each thought that marrying their college sweetheart was the coolest thing ever. Now having relocated to Orange, NJ, away from all their college friends and forced to rely on each other for entertainment, both Jennifer and David are beginning to wonder if they made a mistake.

Says Jennifer, "Every day, I go into the city for work and I see all these women who don't have to be home at six to make dinner for their husband because his mother did it for his father. I just wonder if I got tied down too young. I love him, I really do, but I wonder what I'm missing."

David also has doubts. "There's this totally hot intern in my office, and she's okay with no strings attached."

Meet the Host

Child star Mickey Rooney, who dominated the box office in two decades (1939 and 1940), guides you on a roller-coaster journey of love, laughter and the bitter realization that you gave the best years of your life to a self-centered sociopath.

Prize

A trip for two -- which must be taken together -- to beautiful Reno, for a period of at least six weeks. Accomodations will be at the luxurious Atlantis Hotel.

Coming Soon

Celebrity Unhappily Married by America! Watch as Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas, Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey, and Salma Hayek and Edward Norton work with Dr. Brothers and host Anne Heche to work out the stresses that high-powered careers, parenthood and celebrity all wreak on a marriage.