Marriage Encounters Help and Family Counseling.
Marriage Encounters
Retrouvaille is an International community of disciples committed to the continued healing of their marriages and, empowered by the Holy Spirit, sharing their stories, talents and gifts to promote and spread the healing ministry of Retrouvaille. The primary goal is to provide help for couples who live in the disappointment and pain of marriage relationships with a marriage encounters. The weekend provides a safe setting, encouraging couples to learn to deal with a marriage encounters in a respectful manner. The post-weekend phase of the Retrouvaille program is as critical to a couple experiencing marital problems with a marriage encounters as the initial weekend experience. The degree of disappointment, deterioration and despair in hurting marriages with marriage problems cannot be healed in one weekend marriage encounters. Restoration takes time. The post-weekend marriage encounters sessions provide support as couples discuss concepts of the importance of communication in marriage, intimacy, and many other topics. Today's unchallenged acceptance of divorce suggests that many friends, families, or church communities are providing only limited support for marriages with marital problems. Retrouvaille is a program that is solely dedicated to providing the necessary support to help save marriages. The unchallenged acceptance of divorce has infected our world with hopelessness, but we believe that every marriage deserves the opportunity to survive, be healed and thrive as a covenant of life and love. Retrouvaille is the place where we, as hurting couples, found hope and so we are passionately committed to dramatically increasing the number of couples served in both new and existing communities worldwide. There are four Stages of Marriage: Romance, Disillusionment, Misery, and Awakening. Due to the high divorce rate many couples never make it to the fourth Stage of Awakening. Most people whose marriages end in divorce are not bad people. Rather, they are often people who never learned the proper tools for a happy marriage. This is where Retrouvaille can help. Teams of couples who have experienced all four Stages of Marriage present the Retrouvaille marriage encounters program. Instead of giving up they found solutions. In Retrouvaille they learned the tools they needed to live a happy marriage. They learned that marriage does not follow the Romance and Happily Ever After formula portrayed in literature and media. Rather, they learn that there are certain learnable skills, attitudes and tools that they can use to deal with the inevitable problems with communication in marriage in the real world. The main emphasis of the program is on communication through marriage encounters between husband and wife. It will give you the opportunity to rediscover each other and examine your lives together in a new and positive way.