Marriage Encounter Weekend

[KCT]

Has anyone here attended a Marriage Encounter weekend? My husband and I are thinking of attending one in the fall. Any comments or experiences are appreciated. —KCT

 

[mollyo]

Hi KCT, this is Mollyo, my husband and I made an Encounter weekend 2 years ago. It was a wonderful experience. If you have a good marriage, this will help you make is great. If you have problems in you marriage, I suggest you go to a Retroville Weekend, this is the same basic format as Marriage Encounter, but will help you start opening communications between the two of you. Marriage Encounter weekends assume that there are no serious problems in your marriage. Go for it, it is worth a weekend away from the world, and kids and just the two of you together for the whole weekend. God bless, let me know how your experience is, they have these weekends all over the world! Our parish priest is very active in Marriage Encounter and he helped start up Retroville (I think I am mispelling)

 

[Marauder]

I attended a Marriage Encourter Weekend. If the class is run well, be prepared for an intense weekend. Make sure you “play along”. Some people that attend, just show up and go through the motions.

If you do the program the way it is intended you may find out things about both yourself and your partner that you never knew or expected. It can be an emotionally draining weekend so plan something fun for when you leave.

Hopefully you get a class with Orthodox teachers, I have heard complaints about classes run by very liberal teachers.

I noticed in your profile you listed MD as your location. I went to one run by the Archdiocese of Baltimore if you have any specific questions about that one. One problem is that I leave tomorrow for vacation so unless you ask the questions right away, I won’t be able to get back to you.

 

[robertaf]

Good Morning

My husband and I attended a Marriage Encounter weekend about 20 years ago. We will be married 50 years in February and that weekend is one of the real highlights of our marriage.
We had a good marriage but the weekend helped to make it a fantastic one.
I recommend it highly. In fact, been trying to get the son and daughter in law off to one soon.

 

[deaconswife]

My husband and I attended a Marriage Encounter Weekend when we were only married six months. We both encourage you strongly to attend as you will learn principles that will help your marriage to remain strong in a culture that is not supportive of a lifelong commitment. We actually use some of these principles when we prepare engaged couples for marriage. Many have particularly been touched by the principle that love is a decision (an act of the will, not of the emotions). As to the successfulness of the program, we have been married 26 years and hope to have at least 26 more.

 

[KCT]

Thanks for the positive replies. We have a good marriage and want to make it better. (not sure how one would define a troubled marriage, but I think we’re OK We’re coming up on our 20th anniversary; I wish we’d considered ME sooner! —KCT

 

[DAWNCUROLE]

My husband and I made a week end about 5 years ago and like others have said it made a good marriage better. The one thing my husband kept asking before we went was, " will I have to talk in front of the other people" The answer is NO. We introduced oureselves but their was no “spilling your guts” as my husband put it. It was a time for us to talk one on one.

 

[baltobetsy]

mollyo:

Retroville (I think I am mispelling)

Mollyo, it’s Retrouvaille, pronounced re-troo-vye, and it’s French for “finding again.”

Betsy

 

[matthew1624]

It was AWESOME! My wife and I went about 2 years ago and it was one of the best things we have ever done for our marriage.

Go, and encourage others to go with you as well.

God Bless…