About Dr. Dos
She built everything they
said mattered.Then she
asked why marriage felt
hardest.
Dr. Ronke Dosunmu is a board-certified pediatrician (FAAP), practice owner, entrepreneur, and founder of School of Wife. She has been married for over 30 years.
She did not build School of Wife because she had all the answers. She built it because she kept asking the wrong questions — and eventually found better ones.
Dr. Ronke Dosunmu
Founder, School of Wife
The Story
Why School of Wife exists.
For most of her adult life, Dr. Dos applied the same principle to every challenge she faced: learn the skill, do the work, get the result. It worked in medicine. It worked in business. It worked everywhere she pointed it.
Marriage was different.
Not because she didn’t try. But because nobody had ever taught her that marriage had a different operating system. That the traits that made her exceptional at work — the competence, the efficiency, the problem-solving — did not automatically translate to intimacy at home. In fact, sometimes they worked against it.
She spent years studying long-term relationship research, connection, attachment, and relational patterns. And she started to see something that most people miss:
Marriage is a learnable skill. And high-achieving women are not failing at it. They are undertrained for it.
Her work is informed by her Christian faith and her belief that marriage is a sacred investment — while remaining practical, research-informed, and welcoming to high-achieving women from any background.
School of Wife is the program she wishes had existed when she needed it. Not therapy. Not counseling. Marriage education — research-informed, pattern-based, and built specifically for women who are already excellent at hard things.
Important to know
What School of Wife is not.
01
Not therapy
School of Wife does not diagnose or treat mental health conditions. If you are experiencing a crisis, please seek professional clinical support.
03
Not marriage counseling
This is education — patterns, frameworks, and skills that you learn and apply. Not a place to process conflict with your partner present.
Background
The foundation behind the work.
Medicine
Board-certified pediatrician (FAAP) and founder of Foundation Pediatrics, a private practice serving patients from birth through young adulthood. Over two decades of clinical practice has shaped Dr. Dos’s evidence-based, pattern-first approach to everything she builds.
Marriage
Married for over 30 years. Not a perfect marriage — a real one. One that has moved through every position in the Relationship Physics framework, and has been tended with intention at every stage.
Entrepreneurship
Founder of multiple ventures including Foundation Pediatrics, School of Wife, and The Piercing Pros™. A graduate of EntreMD Business School. Understands firsthand what it costs a marriage when a woman’s best energy goes to her career.
Education & Research
School of Wife is grounded in decades of long-term relationship research — behavioral science on connection, intimacy, and relational patterns. Every framework is pattern-based and evidence-informed, not opinion-based advice.
Speaking & Media
Bringing this conversation to
your audience.
communities, and organizations on the intersection of high achievement,
marriage, and relational skill. Her approach is research-grounded, direct, and deeply practical.
- The Competence Trap
- Relationship Physics
- Needed More Than Known
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