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Worldwide Marriage Encounter Columbus, Ohio
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Marriage Encounter can 'tune up' a relationship
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originally appeared in the Catholic Times:
Marriage Encounter can ‘tune up’ a relationship By Paul and Marilou Clouse Remember the spark between you and your spouse during your courtship and early marriage? Remember how much you enjoyed talking with your mate? Remember romantic times together, silently gazing into each others eyes? Romance need not be only a memory. There is a proven way to rediscover your love and reenergize your good marriage. Marriage Encounter, a Catholic experience that has been renewing the sacrament of Matrimony for over 30 years, can provide the tools you need to rekindle your fire. Employers provide workshops and training opportunities to enhance an employee’s job skills, and we regularly take our cars to service people to help them perform at their best. Yet most of us do little to “tune up” our marriage. On a Marriage Encounter Weekend, you will learn a new communication technique which you can continue at home to enhance your understanding and respect for each other. A team of three couples and a priest share their experiences with you in a series of presentations. Following the presentation, a question is offered to help you focus on and share your thoughts and feelings about an area of your relationship. Although there will be several couples on your Weekend, it is really a private weekend for the two of you. There is no group sharing or counseling. The Weekend gives couples a chance to stop, talk and listen to each other. The Marriage Encounter weekend is not a counseling session for troubled marriages. It is an opportunity for good marriages, with solid foundations, to become even better. Marriage Encounter is open to couples of all faiths. The two of us made our Weekend 16 years ago, and with the exception of our wedding and the birth of our three daughters, it was the most memorable and exciting experience of our life together. We still have disagreements, but they are usually short-lived and resolved with individual needs and feelings a priority. Worldwide Marriage Encounter is an international movement. Over five million couples, priests and religious from around the world have participated.
For more information about Marriage Encounter in the Central Ohio area, Call or write Paul and Marilou Clouse, 740-746-9003 Rt. 1 Box 616, Sugar Grove, OH 43155 or see WWMEColumbus.org |
