Healing Marriage: a Testimonial

As you reflect on 2012, have you resolved to make any changes in your life and marriage this year?  For couples who find themselves hurting in their marriage, they may be asking Can the Church Help Hurting Marriages?  The answer is a resounding yes!

"...At the end of the last century, a theologian was asked what were the three most outstanding events of the 20th Century and named Alcoholics Anonymous as one of the three. In a world of diminishing neighborhoods and broken families, he said, AA has taught us again that we need each other and is spawning all kinds of peer ministries.

Retrouvaille, a ministry to hurting marriages, is one of these ministries. Retrouvaille consists of a weekend, 12 follow-up sessions, and ongoing support groups led by a priest and couples who have experienced marital difficulties themselves.

A man who participated in Retrouvaille wrote: 'I’m telling you this to encourage you that people listen to suffering people, and people don’t go to folks who 'have it all together' when they have troubles. They go to someone who is not shocked, who has been hurt, and who will listen without passing judgment, someone who has found some answers but doesn’t always have all the answers.'

It’s such sharing that moved Bob to say: 'In Retrouvaille, we heard other couples talk about their marital problems. Hearing the team couples discuss their own relationships – the kind of pain they have experienced and the resolutions that took place through the commitment they made to each other at Retrouvaille – really moved a lot of people at that weekend.'

Communication between spouses is a strong emphasis of Retrouvaille. When the Associated Press asked divorce lawyers what were the main causes of divorce, the lawyers stated that the major problem was communication difficulties and the only other major cause was couples drifting apart. No wonder. Yale University studies indicated the average American couple communicates only two minutes a day."
>Read the full article as posted on Catholic Online

Your hurting marriage does not need to become another statistic.  The next Retrouvaille of Northwest Indiana weekend is January 25-27, 2013 in Chesterton, Indiana.  View dozens of Retrouvaille testimonials and then register online today!